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 family from 1954 to 1987 and controlled organized criminal operations in Florida and Cuba, which had previously been consolidated from several rival gangs by his father, Santo Trafficante Sr.

The Trafficante crime family, also known as the Tampa crime family or the Tampa Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Tampa, Florida. The most notable boss of the family was Santo Trafficante Jr. who ruled Tampa and the crime family with an iron fist. [1] .

Nov 12, 2023 · Carlos Marcello isn’t the only mobster who’s been accused of playing a role in the JFK assassination, however. Florida mobster Santo Trafficante Jr. also supposedly had a hand in Kennedy’s death.

Oct 17, 2021 · Santo Trafficante Jr. claimed to have orchestrated JFK's assassination and was a part of a CIA plot with the mob to kill Fidel Castro. But President John Kennedy wasn't so lucky, if rumors that Trafficante was involved in his death are to be believed...

Jun 21, 2007 · — Santo Trafficante, the top Florida mobster, to an FBI informer in August 1962. “You know what they say in Sicily: if you want to kill a dog, you don’t cut off the tail, you cut off the head.”

Jan 1, 2006 · Here are Trafficante’s own words about Marcello, in sworn, immunized testimony to the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978: “Mr. Trafficante: I know Carlos Marcello about 30 years. I met him in New Orleans. My father had an operation there.” Trafficante went on to say that “I see him once in a while when I go to New Orleans.

Of course, Trafficante had earlier been solicited to participate in the failed CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro, who had thrown the Tampa mob boss in prison shortly after the revolution. The question for me in 1977 was whether one assassination plot—the plot against Castro—

Carlos Joseph Marcello, born Calogero Minacore (February 6, 1910 – March 3, 1993) was an Italian-American crime boss of the New Orleans crime family from 1947 until the late 1980s.

Carlos Marcello rose to the top of the venerable New Orleans criminal underground and became an ally of mobsters from across the United States – and not a few politicians along the way. Marcello, born to a Sicilian family in Tunisia as Calogero Minacori or Minacore, immigrated to Louisiana in 1911.

Apr 21, 2024 · A powerful Italian American crime boss, Carlos Marcello reigned as the leader of the New Orleans mob from the 1940s to the 1980s. The committee on JFK's assassination concluded that Carlos Marcello "had the motive, means, and …