Tampa’s Silent Godfather — The Mob Boss Nobody Heard Of Until Now

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• ME

  @melvin768 · 3 months ago

  Growing up in Tampa,  everyone knew of Santo traficante no one owned a bar in Tampa without paying traficante

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• LO

  @LocoGringo121 · 3 months ago

  This guy sounds like just a normal politician nowadays

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• OR

  @OrlandoCoombs-i4t · 4 months ago

  He died quietly in his own bed, few mob guys do. Most get killed or die in prison. He made the cash without the flash and keep his head down low. Bad boys move in silence.

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• TH

  @tharblin · 3 months ago

  Crooked politicians make way more than the mob these days.

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• EM

  @emilysandstrom2476 · 4 months ago

  I remember those days.  I court reported municipal court judge Trafficante ... wasn't allow to look in his direction.  All the Cubans in Ybor City played the Bolita.

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• DR

  @dropndimespodcastchannel5853 · 3 months ago

  They romanticize him. He was informant for the government. It’s how he walked with impunity

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• AB

  @abilityondemand7349 · 3 months ago

  This was well done, on all levels. Kudos - and thanks!

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• MI

  @Mike_The_Nose · 3 months ago

  Mr. Trafficante was in decline and the Hillsborough county commissioners started to fill the space left behind. Here in Tampa the joke was the families kept it all on the down lo, the greedy commissioners totally lacking in tact or street smarts or muscle would use their position to extort developers with brazen demands to be paid off for permitting and zoning variances.  Fbi got wind through complaints and arrested a bunch of them. Now things have been once more conducted on the down lo, as the song says lot of people talking but few of them know.

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• AN

  @anthonyflores8156 · 3 months ago

  I suddenly want to watch forensic files lol

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• CH

  @chuckdavis8016 · 3 months ago

  I met him several times. Family man. may be a criminal, but I never saw that, ever!

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• WO

  @Wolfshield7 · 3 months ago (edited)

  I worked for Trafficante in the 1970s and '80s. He also bought his track racing and betting forms from me. Horse racing, dogs and Jai-Alai. I was a fine wine and liquor wholesaler in those days, too. I sold to bars, night clubs, restaurants and package stores, several owned by him. So was the wholesale liquor business. His house was in my own neighborhood and looked like any other house. I never thought about it because I grew up around the Cuban culture in Tampa and I was smart enough not to ask questions about mob lives apart from my own  experiences with them. It was just life. I didn't know details and wasn't curious.

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• DI

  @DiggyDoo884 · 3 months ago

  I work on a murder mystery dinner train located in Fort Myers Florida, about a 2 hour drive south of Tampa. Next week we open up with our brand new show all about the trafficante family! I am so happy to have the video to watch, no I can learn the history behind this new show were premiering!

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