Trafficante crime family family
also: Chafikani, Santo Jr., Santo Sr., Traffican, Trafficante crime family, Trafficanti family, Traficana, Traficani, Traficani family, Traficani Jr., Traficani Sr., Trapacani group
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Claims (14)
Dominion Mortgage Corporation trafficked
Trafficante crime family book_quoted
“an affiliated company, Dominion Mortgage Corporation, which shared the same Coral Gables address and borrowed $2 million from World Finance, and that's the CIA front, by the way, to buy an office building there, worked with the Traficani fa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 1:26:43
Meyer Lansky appointed
Trafficante crime family host_asserted
“to Lansky, who appointed him manager of his own Florida interest in addition to those in Cuba. Lansky needed to spend increasingly large amounts of time in New York and Las Vegas, Rome, Versailles, Beirut, and Geneva. Interesting locations …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 47:06
Meyer Lansky entrusted
Trafficante crime family host_asserted
“A war to kill off all the Corsicans. Chapter 15, The Cubans of Florida. Meyer Lansky, the syndicate's financial wizard and chairman from 1947, began building his Cuban empire in his early 40s. When free elections chased his close friend, di…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 43:58
Trafficante crime family founded
Teamsters Local host_asserted
“And they joined the New York wholesaler, Louis Carrillo, who was also in Canada. Traficani settled in Tampa, but continued to run some of his activities from Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters Local in Miami. Traficani and David Yaris, a Sam Giacono C…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 54:16
Trafficante crime family relationship_with
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“Money. Very convenient. Cuba was very, very convenient for these guys. Traficani Jr. had proven more talented than his father, extraordinarily intelligent and energetic. He was calm in crises. Everybody loved him. He was one of the few guys…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 46:32
Trafficante crime family managed
Cuba host_asserted
“Traficani Jr., hired fast-learning natives while dictator Batista's men made the empire, quote-unquote, safe, not for democracy, for organized crime, often appearing more loyal to Traficani than anybody on the island that was actually Cuban…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 49:05
Trafficante crime family did_business_with
Jimmy Hoffa host_asserted
“And they joined the New York wholesaler, Louis Carrillo, who was also in Canada. Traficani settled in Tampa, but continued to run some of his activities from Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters Local in Miami. Traficani and David Yaris, a Sam Giacono C…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 54:16
Trafficante crime family member_of
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“became Lansky's right-hand man and manager of his Cuban interest. And oh, by the way, the whole restoring Batista to Cuba was CIA assisted. So they have all of this casino trade going on in Cuba. They had a base for running Havana's tourist…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 45:30
Trafficante crime family did_business_with
Harlan Blackburn host_asserted
“had gotten involved in some gold mines in Latin America. Besides the Cubans who comprised the main ring of this organization, Traficani also closely worked with Harlan Blackburn Mob, a break in the mafia tradition. But the core of the Trafi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 53:16
Trafficante crime family attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“It failed. Traficani engineered more attempts, including one in September of 62, blah, blah, blah. We know all of that. And he spends the next little bit talking about many of those. But I did want to, all of the rest of the stuff is the Ba…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 56:43
Trafficante crime family assassinated
Albert Anastasia host_asserted
“Lansky's ever-increasing power and wealth, among them Murder, Inc. Chairman of the board, Albert Anastasia. In 1957, he tried enlisting Traficani's aid in removing Lansky from the Havana scene. That was his last move. Traficani arranged a f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 47:35
Teamsters Local front_for
Trafficante crime family host_asserted
“hearings was a front for their narcotics trafficking. After losing his Havana paradise, Meyer Lansky used straw men to buy up the Grand Bahama Island and erected a new gambling city in the city of Nassau. But though Lansky and Traficani eac…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 54:45
Frank Fiorini relationship_with
Trafficante crime family host_asserted
“to Castro's revolutionary army for the CIA. Through this later assignment, Fioroni had made acquaintances with Traficani. In February of 61, Mayhew, Traficani, and Roselli met at Miami's Fountain Blue Hotel. There, Mayhew gave the Hoods unt…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 56:10
BCCI laundered_money_for
Trafficante crime family host_asserted
“There were like the number two site for the Trapacani group. That all happened out of Tampa. That's where Meyer Lansky was living for about 25 years. Yeah. So Tampa is only number two to Miami when it comes to this type of activity. So they…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 11; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 1) @ 14:33
Mentions (3)
▶ 1:24:56
They set up a network through Traficana and the Corsican Mafia initially. Yes. And then during Nixon administration, they basically assassinated the entire Corsican Mafia. That was the actual war on drugs. And they moved the Corsican Mafia …
▶ 1:26:43
an affiliated company, Dominion Mortgage Corporation, which shared the same Coral Gables address and borrowed $2 million from World Finance, and that's the CIA front, by the way, to buy an office building there, worked with the Traficani fa…
▶ 14:33
There were like the number two site for the Trapacani group. That all happened out of Tampa. That's where Meyer Lansky was living for about 25 years. Yeah. So Tampa is only number two to Miami when it comes to this type of activity. So they…