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    Santo Trafficante Jr. (November 15, 1914 – March 17, 1987) was among the most powerful Mafia bosses in the United States. He headed the Trafficante crime...
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  • Santo Trafficante Sr. (May 28, 1886 – August 11, 1954) was a Sicilian-born mobster, and father of the powerful mobster Santo Trafficante Jr. Santo Trafficante...
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  • Trafficante may refer to: Trafficante crime family, mafia crime family in the state of Florida. Santo Trafficante Sr. (1886–1954) Sicilian-born mobster...
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  • notable boss was Santo Trafficante, Jr. who ruled Tampa and the crime family with an iron fist. Author Scott Deitche reported that Santo Jr. was involved...
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    Conspiracy theorists consider Giancana, along with Mafia leaders Santo Trafficante Jr. and Carlos Marcello, to be associated with the assassination of...
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    him in summer of 1986. Santo Trafficante Jr. had been operating in Cuba since the late 1940s under his father, Santo Trafficante Sr., a mobster in Tampa...
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  • that G. Robert Blakey and others have alleged that Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante Jr., and Sam Giancana conspired in the 1963 assassination of U.S....
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    invasion involved noted American mobsters John Roselli, Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante. At least some of the CIA assassination attempts on Castro were given...
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    nightclub and casino life, and they made their inroads in the city. Santo Trafficante Jr. took the roulette wheel at the Sans Souci Cabaret, Meyer Lansky...
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    with Santo Trafficante Jr., the boss of the Tampa crime family. Lucchese had maintained a longtime alliance with Trafficante Jr.'s father Santo Trafficante...
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    gangster Sam Giancana and “Joe, the courier”, identified later as Santos Trafficante, the Cosa Nostra chieftain of Cuba. Edward Gunn recalled receiving...
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  • Pittston, Nick Civella of Kansas City and Santo Trafficante Jr. of Tampa. LaRocca, Mannarino and Trafficante were partners in the Sans Souci hotel and...
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  • Frank Ragano (category Trafficante crime family)
    Florida, who made his name representing organized crime figures such as Santo Trafficante, Jr. and Carlos Marcello, and also served as lawyer for Teamsters...
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  • (some mob historians[who?] dispute his position at this time). Santo "Louie Santos" Trafficante Jr., Tampa family caporegime, moved to Havana in 1946 to oversee...
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    Sturgis also became involved running guns to Cuba, along with mobster Santo Trafficante, and not surprisingly was arrested for illegal possession of arms...
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  • long-closed tavern he owns. Lefty hopes to impress the local mob boss, Santo Trafficante Jr., by throwing a yacht party and persuading him to support his new...
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  • mobster leaders Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante Jr. Supplied with six poison pills from the CIA, Giancana and Trafficante tried unsuccessfully to have...
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  • Jr., the CIA deputy director for plans, offered Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante, Jr., the heads of the Chicago and Tampa crime families, $150,000...
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    political figure who was a rival of reputed mobsters Santo Trafficante Sr. and Santo Trafficante Jr. His parents were John Perry Wall and Matilda McKay...
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  • Ignacio Antinori (category Trafficante crime family)
    such as Florida mobster Santo Trafficante Sr. soon set up rival smuggling rings. Antinori was eventually eclipsed by Trafficante, who held his own strong...
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  • gunned down on a street corner. The hit is believed to be ordered by Santo Trafficante, Sr. July 5 – The bandit and separatist Salvatore Giuliano is killed...
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    Blackcoat's Daughter Bill Eden Coach DaFoe Papa: Hemingway in Cuba Santo Trafficante Jr. 2016 USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage Rear Admiral William S....
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  • American football player Santo Trafficante Jr. (1914–1987), American Mafia boss, head of the Trafficante crime family Santo Trafficante Sr. (1886–1954), Sicilian-born...
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  • 28, 2015, they filmed in Parkland Estates, near the former home of Santo Trafficante, an infamous Tampa mob boss.[citation needed] In the United States...
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  • the most powerful Cosa Nostra family heads in the country, such as Santo Trafficante, Jr., Northeastern Pennsylvania family underboss Russell Bufalino...
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    killed with a sawed-off shotgun. Later, Italian mafiosi Santo Trafficante, Sr. and Santo Trafficante, Jr. also figured prominently in the Florida bolita games...
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    Holiday, Florida, after negotiating control of the territory with Santo Trafficante, Jr. At that time, Napolitano set his sights on operating a major...
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    mobster leaders Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante, Jr. Supplied with six poison pills from the CIA, Giancana and Trafficante tried unsuccessfully to have...
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  • Secret File on Organized Crime" pg. 664 "The Mafia Comes to Asia, Santo Trafficante Visited Saigon in '68". Gangster Report. 31 December 2014. Retrieved...
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  • Dulles. Joe Pesci as Joseph Palmi, based partly on Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante Jr. The Good Shepherd marked Joe Pesci's return to acting after eight...
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