Santo Trafficante

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CASTRO AND THE TAMPA MAFIA CONNECTION

April 5, 2023

Fidel Castro holds up a newspaper headlining the discovery of a plot to kill Castro...

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“I TAKE THE FIFTH AMENDMENT!”

March 17, 2023

Santo Trafficante and lawyer Henry Gonzalez In June of 1981, at age 66, Santo Trafficante...

TAMPA MAFIA TAKEOVER OF THE ‘BURG’

June 1, 2013

Henry Tafficante When bolita kingpin Charlie Williams was killed in Ybor City in February of 1953, local...