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 envy ...

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Giancana went off to Mexico. But in 1974, authorities there seized him in his bathrobe and slippers and had him deported back to the U.S., as Chris Wallace reported for Channel 2 ...

Declassified documents confirm that in September 1960, the CIA, through ex-FBI agent and contractor Robert Maheu, enlisted mobsters Johnny Roselli, Santo Trafficante Jr., and Sam Giancana for this ...

Santo Trafficante Jr. was a well-known mafia figure from Tampa. A long-time attorney and friend, Frank Ragano, claimed that before the mobster’s death in 1987, Trafficante revealed that he was ...

He was like an uncle to Santo Trafficante Jr., who took over the syndicate and grew it into the largest in the state and one that extended into Cuba.

He was like an uncle to Santo Trafficante Jr., who took over the syndicate and grew it into the largest in the state and one that extended into Cuba.

But Santo Trafficante Jr. has his place in the rogues gallery of organized crime bosses in U.S. history. Trafficante died in 1987 at age 72 and was buried in a mausoleum at a Tampa cemetery.

Novack said some involved with the fraud at the bank had ties to Meyer Lansky, Santo Trafficante Jr., Joe Cacciatore and Jimmy Hoffa, all who had connections to South Florida at the time.