Each faces a variety of charges, including conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Read the entire story about Mamones life of crime and current legal troubles written by Jane Musgrave in the Palm Beach Post. Trafficante LCN Family Membership. Mafia Books After spending a brief time in a Cuban jail after Castro's coup, Trafficante returned to Tampa and took part in a CIA plot to poison the Cuban leader. Buy the time LoScalzo took over in 1987, the Trafficante Crime Family was far past its heyday. Husband of Private 14 He moved to Cuba in 1955 where he met the countrys authoritarian ruler Fulgencio Batista. They cope with it; I guess we have to.". Beasley resigned but told newspapers it had nothing to do with that charge. The foregoing suggests that Puglisis shop may be involved in illegal bookmaking, which in turn may fit with the operations of Primo Lazzara, who was linked to the Trafficante crime family. The east coast of Florida was a loosely knit conglomerate of New York family interests with links to Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Angelo Bruno, Carlos Marcello, and Frank Ragano. Joe is reportedly a longtime associate of the Trafficante mob, and his barber shop is a known hang-out of some of this group.. By the late 1800s to early 1900s, Italian immigrants from Sicily were drawn to the City of Tampa and a tight-knit "Little Italy"-type . I live at 9205 Poes Rd., Odessa, FL. Trafficante Sr. passed away four years later, leaving Jr. his Tampa and Cuba-based criminal empire. E-mail me when people leave their comments , Former Trafficante crime family mobster charged with pilfering $3.8 million in Medicare fraud, When the American government asked the Mafia for a favor, Inside the Montreal underworld: The Rizzuto Mob & the Hells Angels, On the trail of the Italian mafia's dirty money, The "secret" murder of Philly mob boss Joey Merlino's crew, Documentary | Millennials in Mexico - born into the world of drug cartels, How New York gangs use social media to recruit, intimidate and to glamorize their lifestyle, Narco-Propaganda is Fuelling Mexicos Drug War, Meeting With A Sinaloa Cartel Hitman Goes Wrong: Inside Los Chapitos vs Rafael Caro Quintero, How The Hells Angels Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider. Albano was charged with violating liquor laws in 1967, when federal agents claimed he and Trafficante's brother were substituting cheap liquor for expensive brands in a Tampa nightclub. Ed Giorandino/NY Daily News Archive via Getty ImagesSanto Trafficante arrives at Queens Supreme Court in Kew Gardens. July 26, 1931 - Angelo Lazzara was an early member of the Trafficante crime family. Remember the odessey and the bar across the street used to go in when I was 15 and make friends with all the working girls. But on June 5, 1950, a Ford sedan pulled alongside Lumia's car, parked along Tampa's waterfront. Decades later, it is unclear if all of their investigations were warranted or if some were politically motivated or worse, simple harassment of innocent residents. Jan 23, 2019 - Explore Al Lanzilotti's board "Trafficante Crime family" on Pinterest. Scott M. Deitche is the author of 5 books and on organized crime, including Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld, and The Silent Don: The World of Santo Trafficante Jr. "I guess that we (the Trafficantes) are just like the Kennedys. Following his death, Mobster Vincent LoScalvo took over the Trafficante family's criminal network in Florida. Scott is one of the few writers who has donated items to the Mafia Museum in Las Vegas, and is a regularly-featured guest speaker there. Originally Posted By: DickNose_Moltasanti, Trafficante Family Chart- All in the family, Re: Trafficante Family Chart- All in the family, Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather, http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2004-03-25/news/the-snitch/. Santo Trafficante arrives at Queens Supreme Court in Kew Gardens. He has been featured on the History Channel, A&E, Discovery Channel, AHC, C-SPAN and . After a violent mob war left several of Trafficantes rivals dead or weakened, his gang rapidly rose to prominence in Tampa. The same informant returned the following month to find Henry Trafficante there with three unidentified associates. The house next to be at 9209 Post Rd. Thanks for the reply. One of the earliest established Mafia Families in the United States was the criminal network that formed down in Tampa, Florida. [CDATA[ The real mafia played dominoes at the casino and never disclosed themselves. Geni requires JavaScript! Purchase an annual subscription for unlimited access to the full Button Guys library! Late in life LoScalzo denied any connections to organized crime. by Lisa Babick and The Other Guy. In interviews, all three men denied any connection to the mob. was supposedly built by Santo Traficante. More importantly, Castro imprisoned Trafficante and then had him exiled from Cuba. That arrest also led Cuban authorities to become warier of the mobster, especially as the political tides seemed to be turning there. But once Kennedy actually entered the White House, he didnt live up to his end of the bargain. He was among a group of mob leaders in attendance when police raided a 1957 summit conference at Apalachin, N.Y. Diecidue is listed in state records as the owner of Dixie Amusement Co., a now-defunct vending and pinball machine company in Tampa. And it was the favorite eating establishment of the enigmatic Santo Trafficante Sr, as well as his son and namesake, Santo Jr. Harold Holderith, 813-376-5516, floridahusky@yahoo.com. The crimes range from loansharking and extortion to cocaine distribution and interfering with interstate commerce. Trafficante was a respected member of organized crime's commission of local bosses, an associate of the early leaders of the Bonanno and Gambino families. Trafficantes chance came in the 1960s when he became acquainted with mobster John Handsome Johnny Roselli. Whatever happened to the Imperial Room Lounge that was owned by Doc Castellano in Tampa?? ", The informant, one of three who provided information to the FBI during the investigation, said LoScalzo gave him $24,000 worth of cocaine from a safe in the office at Brother's. Historica Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. Afterwards, the son he had groomed to take his place, Santo Trafficante Jr., took the reins of the Trafficante crime family. Their report on Puglisis barbershop was sent to the Vice Squad. These were the first seeds laid down by the Sicilian Mafia as they took control of the city. Today, Santo Trafficantes criminal legacy lives on through his nephew and namesake, Santo Trafficante III, who was charged with organized fraud in 1992. The chart is excellent! Frank Diecidue is identified in U.S. Senate testimony as the new head of the Tampa mob. Finally, in 1987, Trafficante died at the age of 72. Using a series of laboratories and medical device companies, those involved in the scheme billed the federal insurance program for bogus genetic tests, federal prosecutors said in court papers. Santo Trafficante Sr. succeeds him as boss. In his previous statements, Roselli also tied Lee Harvey Oswalds killer, Jack Ruby, to Santo Trafficante. A year later, La Gaceta newspaper reported that the Vice Squad had stopped using the sheriff offices designated radio waves. He maintained all of the lucrative casinos in Cuba, further cemented, After Cuban revolution, the Mafia saw Castro as a threat to their business. While he had several close calls with law enforcement including the famed FBI, Late in life LoScalzo denied any connections to organized crime. Santo Trafficante Jr. was a reserved, modest man married to the same woman for 49 years. All victims of crime, their family members and witnesses of crime may obtain information and assistance from the CSP Victim/Witness Assistance Program, (714) 834-4350. Mamone disappeared into the witness protection program almost two decades ago, after becoming a witness against his colleagues in the Mafia, a wide variety of them, including members of the Trafficante, Gambino, Colombo, and Bonanno families. The callous Florida Legislature should check it out. Like 70-year-old Delray Beach-area resident John Mamone, the 10 others who began appearing in federal court on Monday are accused of paying kickbacks and bribes to telemedicine companies to get them to order unnecessary tests and medical equipment for Medicare recipients. Ignazio Antinori - (boss 1920-1940) Santo Trafficante Sr. - (boss 1940-1954) Santo Trafficante Jr. - (boss 1954-1987) Vincent LoScalzo - (boss 1987-present) Associate. Through deep-dive biographies and snapshots of mobsters to in-depth stories about mafia regimes and crews, youll uncover an underworld you might never have known existed maybe even in your own hometown! He quickly became an integral part of the Tampa family. All rights reserved. The family was taken over by Santo Trafficante Sr. after Antinori was murdered by rival gangster Charlie Wall in 1940, and Wall would himself be killed in 1955 by the Trafficante family. He headed the Trafficante crime family and controlled organized criminal operations in Florida and Cuba, which had previously been consolidated from several rival gangs by his father, Santo Trafficante Sr. Dennis Caruso/NY Daily News Archive via Getty ImagesFrank Ragano and Santo Trafficante Jr. (right). Like many of the most prominent mobsters of the 20th century, his father, Santo Trafficante Sr., grew up in Sicily, Italy but became a major player in the criminal world after migrating to America. Medicare also paid millions for a variety of knee, back and wrist braces, walkers and other medical equipment that patients didnt need, they said. So, who was this so-called Silent Don who wielded enough power to allegedly kill the President? Originally from New Jersey, Mamone got his start with the Genovese family before moving to Florida and becoming part of the Trafficante family. "It indicates perhaps that they are not as well-connected as they once were.". The Trafficante family was involved in gambling, prostitution, and numbers rackets in both Florida and Cuba, although its Cuban operations would be shut down after Fidel Castro's communist takeover of Cuba in 1959. Originally Posted By: Mickey_MeatBalls_DeMonica. In 1948, gangster Jimmy Velasco was shot and killed in Ybor as his wife and daughter looked on. In the 1960 presidential election, Kennedy family patriarch Joe Kennedy Sr. used his ties to organized crime to secure votes for his son, John F. Kennedy. The Trafficante crime family is a family of the American Mafia from the city of Tampa, Florida, founded in 1925 by Ignacio Antinori. With that act, Santo Trafficante now reigned supreme in Tampa. Radioactive roads? He died in 1955. Their self-charged duties included vetting candidates for law enforcement positions, scrutinizing trials and investigations and forging their own probes. His new attorney general his beloved brother, Robert F. Kennedy went after organized crime with a vengeance. Mamone, who was indicted in October with his sons, John Anthony and Joseph Mamone, was part of the criminal enterprise, prosecutors said. Grossman, Daniel Goldman's kidnapping and murder was an act of revenge after Aaron Goldman went up against the group known as the Tampa Mafia. Diecidue was convicted of the charge and was in federal prison from 1976 to 1979 before his conviction was overturned on appeal. That was in part due to his lifestyle. Michael Napoli pleaded guilty in that case to using four Hillsborough bars as fronts for cocaine distribution. The mafiosos that made up the family are either retired, in prison, or have died due to old age. Instead, it was led by the Hillsborough County Crime Commission, an independent organization that was backed by residents who claimed that local elected officials and law enforcement had become too corrupted by organized crime to be trusted without oversight. However the meeting came to be, the mob nonetheless brought influential states like Illinois into the Kennedy fold in exchange for the White House going easy on organized crime. Castaways Lounge in Tampa at 4601 W. Kennedy Boulevard in the 1960s and 1970s. Despite law enforcement's disagreement over the power structure, on one point they are unanimous: The La Cosa Nostra is alive and growing in Tampa since Trafficante's death. Harris & Ewing/Library of Commons/Wikimedia CommonsCuban leader Fulgencio Batista in Washington, D.C. in 1938. Puglisi was never charged with a crime. Suspicious cash flow was observed in accounts owned by associates of high-profile individuals, including Santo Trafficante Jr. (pictured above) the boss of the Trafficante crime family, also known as the Tampa Mafia. * made in 1978. Trafficante was a ruthless mob boss, and quickly consolidated control over the criminal networks in Tampa. And, back then, barbershops were hangouts.. "What the hell is the matter with you people?" Mamone pleaded not guilty last week and was released on bond, the Palm Beach Post reports. Category. Thanks. The younger Trafficante already had established connections with New York Mafia members. Broward County organized crime investigators name restauranteur Vincent LoScalzo as the power behind Tampa's mob. However, while the Latin American drug trade has figured prominently in the sunshine states less savory history, so has the Mafia. It's still a great chart on the Tampa Mob. Mob Fireside Chat BGs Official YouTube Channel, Racketeer Snapshot Tampa, FL Boss Salvatore (Turiddo) Scaglione, Racketeer Snapshot: Los Angeles Mafioso Joe Dipollito. Late in life, LoScalzo denied any connections to organized crime. Jimmy Lumia was an oil company executive who controlled gambling rackets in Tampa in the 1940s. Powered by. While the plot never came to fruition, Trafficante later testified that he did help the CIA recruit other mobsters for the surreal plot. I dont know why theyd investigate my uncle, said Mariette Rushing, 88, of Puglisi. But a federal judge recently said Mamone will remain here for the foreseeable future. Do you remember Dinos Show Place of the Stars on South Dale Mabry in the 70's. His two sons also face charges in this case. All of them was not evil strickly business men. Last year, Gotti was found innocent of conspiring with other mob leaders to kill the leader of New York's carpenter's union. In the early 20th Century, Tampa was a small but growing city, and the organized crime it faced was modest. When Fidel Castro began his ascent to power in the 1950s, Santo Trafficante feared the radical Marxist revolutionary wouldnt cooperate with him. No charges filed in the shooting death of 19-year-old University of Tampa student. Now in his late 70s or early 80s, LoScalzo is reported to be retired. Napoli's wife, Florence, denied that her husband was associated with La Cosa Nostra. State officials list him as the owner of Brother's Lounge in Tampa, although law enforcement officials say that he has a hidden interest in several other bars. Immigrating right along with these hard-working early Sicilian immigrants came a band of shadowy criminal figures from their homeland. There are few indicators that the family is still an active crime network. In October 2000, 19 Tampa LCN members and associates, including Steve Raffa and John Mamone, were indicted in Florida on charges of illegal gambling, loansharking, money laundering through check-cashing stores, and a massive financial fraud scheme run out of South Carolina , that reportedly brought in $32 million in profits. He was right, and when Castro took power in 1959, Trafficantes burgeoning gambling-and-drugs empire went under siege. He maintained all of the lucrative casinos in Cuba, further cemented ties with powerful Mafia families he had established as a young man in New York, and ruthlessly put down any attempts to usurp his territory or power. A Pinellas school regains its name, and Black history, after 55 years, Bolita, Tampas illegal lottery, was deadly and lucrative, Velasco used illegal gambling money to fund candidates who would ignore the mafias crimes, I tried to spend the night in Tampas most haunted building. SANTA ANA, California - A 33-count federal grand jury indictment unsealed today charges 31 members and associates of the Orange County Mexican Mafia with racketeering offenses, two murders and six attempted murders, and related drug and gun charges.. At least 26 people with ties to the Trafficante family and the New York-based Mafia have been convicted in Central and South Florida since Trafficante's death, federal court records show. Trafficante is jailed by Fidel Castro after Castro takes control of Cuba and dismatles the island's gambling operations. In January 2004, Mamone and 7 other people were indicted in Florida on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, kidnapping, attempted murder, obstruction of justice, money laundering, and trafficking in $80 million worth of marijuana from Mexico to the U.S. since 1991. Rather, court records and testimony say, three men share control. Conversations were restrained and in Italian. The Columbia Restaurant is the Tampa landmark. Trafficante returns to Tampa and enlists in a CIA plot to poison Castro. The Trafficante family was involved in gambling, prostitution, and numbers . You fail Drug Slang 101 dude. This is good money for not a big crew, I'm going to Google some stuff, see if I can find this indictment. prosecution, fled temporarily to Cuba. Not sure about what is going on in Tampa, though. WTF does that mean? The chart was made by Scott M. Deitche on his site. Investigators said he headed the cocaine laundering operation in Tampa for what is known as the Trafficante crime family. Ron DeSantis Tampa Bay hometown has evolved. Button Guys of The New York Mafia. Santo Trafficante Jr. wounded during failed assassination attempt in Tampa. Italian and Sicilian immigrants offer bolita games and slot machines throughout the city. Lazzara was known in Ybor City as a collector of graft and a worker of rackets for various high-ups among county officials. Does it still claim him? People are always putting bulls--- about them in the paper, too. And despite relatively small time beginnings, Trafficante proved to be a shrewd mobster. In 1976, Diecidue was charged with racketeering in an indictment that charged others with participating in a plot to kill Tampa Police Detective Richard Cloud, who was investigating the mob. Prosecutors allege 70-year-old John Mamone stole around $3.8 million by submitting phony bills to Medicare for knee, shoulder and wrist braces. I'm sure not many these days will remember the place. Joseph Pistone spent six years posing as Mafia member "Donnie Brasco" to gather information for the FBI. Santo Trafficante was wanted in 48 states by the time he was 43. Law enforcement tracked his every move. The outcome of the case couldn't be determined from court records. Trafficante family used to own Florida, now there are others that have inherited the businesses. LoScalzo was born in Sicily and moved with his family to New Orleans and then Tampa as a young man. Century, Tampa was a small but growing city, and the organized crime it faced was modest. South Orange County - (949)752-1971. Their plans ranged from simply shooting him to having him smoke poisoned cigars or drinking a tainted milkshake. And as for the rest of the Trafficante Crime family? The others, who live in Broward County, include Daniel M. Carver, 35, of Coral Springs; John Paul Gosney Jr., 39, of Parkland; Ethan Macier, 22, of Coral Springs; and Ashley Cigarroa, 29, of North Lauderdale. One small gang, led by Italian immigrant Santo Trafficante Senior, profited from the illegal lottery-style games they ran across Tampa. To add further credence to this theory of JFKs assassination, famed prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi (who also wrote the infamous true crime novel on the Manson Family, Helter Skelter), who penned Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, quoted a witness who said that New Orleans boss Marcello had quipped: The dog [JFK] will keep biting you if you only cut off its tail [RFK]., The final piece of evidence for the theory that Santo Trafficante was involved in JFKs assassination was a witness who reported that the mobster had once said himself that JFK not going to make it to the [1964] election. Alongside Chicago boss Sam Giancana, Roselli and Trafficante came up with some truly insane plots to kill Fidel Castro. Trafficante was jailed and deported when Fidel Castro rose to power, leading him to spend a good portion of his adult life hatching a plan of revenge.

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