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Santo Trafficante Sr. was a Florida mobster who survived a series of vicious gang wars to become the leader of a powerful Mafia crime family based in Tampa. His son, Santo Trafficante Jr., took over the crime family and became tangled in a web of conspiracies to kill the leader of revolutionary Cuba and, it is rumored, President John F. Kennedy.
Mar 15, 2017 · Santo Jr., who had inherited the leadership of the Tampa Mafia around 1950 when his father, Santo Sr., fell ill, had now completed his consolidation of power in Tampa and beyond. Over the next 30-plus years, Trafficante, Jr. rose to oversee Mafia operations across the state of Florida.
Mar 19, 1987 · Santo Trafficante Jr., one of the last of the old-time reputed Mafia dons, who was reportedly enlisted in 1960 in a futile effort to kill Fidel Castro, has died at the age of 72. Henry...
Nov 16, 2022 · And a Godfather-like legend surrounds Tampa-born crime boss Santo Trafficante Jr., who took over the Sicilian Mafia in Florida from his father in 1954 and built a criminal empire that was the...
Mar 19, 1987 · TAMPA, Fla. —. Santo Trafficante Jr., believed to be one of the last of the old-time Mafia dons and a shadowy figure questioned in both the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and a...
Oct 12, 2005 · In all, the FBI collected more than 38,000 pages of information on Trafficante Jr. in the three decades that he was the focus of state, federal and local investigations. He died after heart ...
Santo Trafficante Jr: The Florida Mob Boss who Tried to Assassinate Fidel Castro with the CIA. The Trafficante crime family ruled Florida for decades, earning the respect and admiration of ...
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