Santo Trafficante Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American mob boss
Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1914
Place of Birth: Tampa, Florida, United States
Date of Death: 17-Mar-1987
Profession: gangster
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Santo Trafficante Jr.
- 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 and controlled organized criminal operations in Florida and Cuba, which had previously been consolidated from several rival gangs by his father, Santo Trafficante Sr.
- Reputedly the most powerful crime boss in Batista-era Cuba, he never served a prison sentence in the US.
- Trafficante turned his father's criminal organization into a multi-billion dollar international organized crime empire.
- Trafficante was reportedly a multi-billionaire, and wielded enormous power and influence all over the United States and Cuba by paying off police, judges, federal prosecutors, city officials, government officials, local and international politicians, mayors, governors, senators, congressmen, CIA agents and FBI agents.
- Trafficante maintained links to the Bonanno crime family, in New York City, but was more closely allied with Sam Giancana in Chicago.
- Consequently, while generally recognized as the most powerful organized crime figure in Florida throughout much of the 20th century, Trafficante was not believed to have total control over Miami, Miami Beach, Ft.
- Lauderdale, or Palm Beach.
- 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. Trafficante admitted his anti-Castro activities to the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978.
- Though he vehemently denied any association with a conspiracy against President John F.
- Kennedy, at least one witness before federal investigators testified that Trafficante predicted the assassination in spring of 1963.
- Federal investigators brought racketeering and conspiracy charges against him in summer of 1986.
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