Trafficante Family Chart- All in the family

This is the full chart of the Trafficante Mafia Family of Tampa, FL. The chart was made by Scott M. Deitche on his site.


Trafficante LCN Family Membership

Albano, Frank Peter
* underboss
* made in 1978
* born around 1939 in New York City
* reported to be still alive

Amorelli, Antonio Mario
* soldier
* made in 2008
* cousin of Vincent LoScalzo
* born around 1948 in Alessandria Della Rocca, Sicily
* reported to be still alive

Antinori, Ignazio
* first LCN boss of Tampa
* born on February 17, 1885 in Palermo, Sicily
* murdered on October 23, 1940

Antinori, Joseph
* soldier
* son of Ignazio Antinori
* born on February 2, 1909 in Tampa
* murdered on November 4, 1953

Bedami, Angelo Sr.
* capo
* born on December 23, 1893 in Alessandria Della Rocca, Sicily
* passed away on November 30, 1980 in Tampa

Bedami, Ciro
* soldier
* son of Angelo Bedami Sr.
* born around 1925 in Tampa
* passed away on September 20, 2009 in Tampa

Bedami, Joseph Sr.
* soldier
* son of Angelo Bedami Sr.
* born around 1923 in Tampa
* disappeared in August of 1968

Bruno, James Guida "Jimmy"
* soldier
* owner of Jimmy's Lounge
* born on October 26, 1914 in Tampa
* passed away on March 31, 1988 in Tampa

Cacciatore, Sam
* soldier
* born around 1917 in Tampa
* passed away on June 12, 1981 in Tampa

Cacciatore, Terry
* soldier
* nephew of Sam Cacciatore
* made in 2008
* born around 1945 in Tampa
* reported to be still alive

Camero, Joseph Randall "Randy"
* soldier
* made in 1994
* owner of Camero Enterprises
* born on November 2, 1953 in Tampa
* passed away on November 21, 2008 in Tampa

Carollo, Salvatore "Big Sam"
* soldier
* made in 1987
* born on October 7, 1937 in Tampa
* reported to be still alive

Diecidue, Alphonse "Al"
* capo
* born around 1872 in Cianciana, Sicily
* passed away on April 24, 1947 in Tampa

Diecidue, Antonio "Tony"
* soldier
* son of Alphonse Diecidue
* owner of Diecidue Produce Co.
* born on May 12, 1896 in Cianciana, Sicily
* passed away on February 23, 1993 in Tampa

Diecidue, Frank "Daddy Frank"
* underboss
* son of Alphonse Diecidue
* owner of Dixie Amusement Co.
* born on February 20, 1915 in Tampa
* passed away on October 18, 1994 in Tampa

Diecidue, Gaetano "Tom"
* soldier
* son of Alphonse Diecidue
* born around 1903 in Cianciana, Sicily
* passed away on December 18, 1994 in Tampa

DiGerlando, Joseph "Joe D"
* soldier
* made in 1984
* owner of DiGerlando Enterprises
* reported to be still alive

Furci, Dominick "Nick"
* soldier
* owner of Tip-Top Motor Co.
* born on March 8, 1911 in Tampa
* passed away in 1987

Ippolito, Frank "Cowboy"
* soldier
* made in 1988
* owner of the La Tropicana Restaurant
* born on April 16, 1921 in Tampa
* passed away on April 17, 2008 in Tampa

Italiano, Salvatore "Red"
* acting boss
* fled to Mexico in 1950
* born around 1898 in Napoli, Italy
* passed away in 1968

Lazzara, Augustine "Primo"
* capo
* owner of the Yellow House Bar
* born on September 10, 1906 in Tampa
* passed away on April 8, 1968 in Tampa

Lazzara, Joseph
* soldier
* brother of Augustine Lazzara
* owner of Castaways Lounge and Eden Rock Liquor Store
* born around 1921 in Tampa
* passed away on December 1, 1999 in Tampa

Longo, James Costa "Jimmy"
* soldier
* born around 1910 in Wilkes-Barre, PA
* passed away on June 15, 1992 in Tampa

Lorenzo, Salvatore "Silent Sam"
* soldier
* born on May 19, 1927 in Tampa
* passed away in 1995

LoScalzo, Angelo "The Hammer"
* soldier
* born around 1908 in Alessandria Della Rocca, Sicily
* passed away in 1977

LoScalzo, Vincent
* the last boss of Tampa
* son of Angelo LoScalzo
* co-owner of Mike's Lounge and Lo-Val, Inc.
* owner of Brother's Lounge and Mahalo Auto Sales
* born on May 6, 1937 in Alessandria Della Rocca, Sicily
* reported to be still alive

Lumia, James "Head of the Elks"
* acting boss
* owner of Bay Oil Co.
* born on September 10, 1903 in Tampa
* murdered on June 5, 1950

Mamone, John "Big John"
* soldier
* made in 1996
* formerly associated with the Genovese Mafia Family
* owner of Gateway Trucking Co.
* became an informant in 2001

Mistretta, Gaetano
* soldier
* born around 1893 in Palermo, Sicily
* passed away in 1975

Napoli, Mike
* soldier
* made in 1997
* born on January 22, 1951 in Tampa
* reported to be still alive

Perla, Arthur "Art"
* soldier
* born around 1908 in Tampa
* passed away in 1998

Piazza, Phillip "Phil"
* capo
* brother-in-law of Salvatore Italiano
* owner of the Red Top Bar
* born on January 21, 1903 in Cianciana, Sicily
* passed away on January 21, 1977 in Tampa

Raffa, Steve Bruno "Uncle Steve"
* capo
* owner of Akel Market
* born on October 2, 1941 in Tampa
* killed himself on November 16, 2000

Scaglione, Alfonso "Al"
* soldier
* born around 1917 in Tampa
* passed away on February 5, 1996 in Tampa

Scaglione, Nick
* soldier
* brother of Alfonso Scaglione
* owner of University Restaurant
* born around 1931 in Tampa
* passed away in 2002

Scaglione, Salvatore "Sal"
* underboss
* owner of Italian Castle Restaurant
* born on November 12, 1894 in Alessandria Della Rocca, Sicily
* passed away on August 9, 1964 in Tampa

Scaglione, Stefano "Steve"
* soldier
* son of Salvatore Scaglione
* born on May 29, 1918 in Alessandria Della Rocca, Sicily
* passed away on December 7, 1995 in Tampa

Trafficante, Enrico "Henry"
* capo
* owner of the Dream Bar
* born on November 23, 1924 in Tampa
* passed away in 2002

Trafficante, Santo Jr. "Sam Balto"
* boss from 1954 until 1987
* brother of Enrico Trafficante
* co-owner of Riviera Hotel & Casino
* owner of Kit Kat Bar, Tahitian Inn, Tropicana Hotel and Sans Souci Casino
* born on November 14, 1914 in Tampa
* passed away on March 17, 1987 in Tampa

Trafficante, Santo Sr. "Don Santo"
* boss from 1940 until 1954
* brother-in-law of Sam Cacciatore
* father of Enrico Trafficante
* co-owner of Sevilla Biltmore Hotel
* owner of Trafficante Cigar Co., Capri Hotel & Casino, Commodoro Hotel and Tropicana Hotel
* born on May 28, 1886 in Alessandria Della Rocca, Sicily
* passed away on August 10, 1954 in Tampa

Trafficante, Salvatore "Sal"
* soldier
* brother of Enrico Trafficante
* father-in-law of Frank Albano
* born on November 14, 1916 in Tampa
* passed away in 2002

Trafficante, Santo Jose "Santico"
* soldier
* nephew of Enrico Trafficante
* born around 1937 in Tampa
* passed away on July 10, 2010 in Tampa

Vaglica, Giuseppe "Joe"
* soldier
* born around 1893 in Cianciana, Sicily
* murdered on July 11, 1937

Valenti, James
* capo
* made in 1990
* co-owner of Lo-Val, Inc.
* born around 1948
* reported to be still alive




The End

what they into into these days the tampa italians that isÉ

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, Scott has some great information. Not sure about what is going on in Tampa, though.

What was left of the family was mostly broken up over the past decade. 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. 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.

Thanks for sharing your info...

Why do retards post a bunch of dead guys names?! What the fuck seriously?!

it's a chart. this chart begins with a source crime family and includes all of their crime family members and associates for a user-specified number of generations in both directions alive or dead. .... that's why perhaps you should know the real meaning of something b4 you decide to attack.....this is a good tampa family chart. the tampa family is not a huge family and has been somewhat inactive for a while. not alot of info on them.

Feel free to make your own additions/deletions/corrections to the chart but drop the name calling!

Smokes 420, sounds like you need prayer. God Bless you bro... Scott is a very talented guy.

agreed

Steve Raffa was one of the handful of mobsters that actually committed suicide I think.

I just quit smoking bud and im dealing with some shit so maybe i was harsh... back to these charts with dead guys i like to see peoples guesses on whos running the streets today no dead guys...

Bud? And you're "dealing with some shit"? Shit dude, try kicking hammer.

Try kicking hammer what the fuck does that mean?

i believe heroin wich i have gone thru

WTF does that mean? You fail Drug Slang 101 dude.

Heroin. Hammer. Harry. Smack. Skag. Slow. Seriously, I can quit smoking buds any day of the week without breaking a sweat. Its not like that shits actually addictive.

Anyway, who else is there to post besides a bunch of dead guys? The topic was a Trafficante Chart, and they're pretty much all dead, are they not? Just because you really, really wish there was a Family there doesn't make it so. Chalk Tampa up with Youngstown, Ohio and the other cities that used to have a proper families. A handful of geriatrics a family doesn't make.

Tough shit eh Ontario? Im sure its rough...

Hope you dont fall back on it best of luck...




Im sorry but i dont fuck around with that shit so why the fuck would i know all the slangs im not an expert... down here people call it tar, skag, heroin or brown and thats pretty much it so quit baggin on me...

Ive also got my own fuckin problems ive been a heavy smoker for a while so quitin that plus all the other bullshit gimme a fuckin break eh?

please do not refer to me as ontario

Pot head needs to just grow up...

It's still a great chart on the Tampa Mob. Even though there's always a few people who try to ruin it.

The chart is excellent! When doing a chart like this you have to mention the members of the past too.
Solid info!

Scott Deitche is an excellent researcher and a good writer. I enjoyed his book "Cigar City Mafia".

Here's a thing on Tampa,

http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2004-03-25/news/the-snitch/

Why thank you!

Actually I did not make that chart. While certainly most of the info came from my posts and other charts, I think that one was made by a guy who used to post on Real Deal.

Regardless, it's a fairly complete chart of family members. It's missing some members and some are associates, but it's a good over view of the Trafficantes.

Interesting. I live in Tampa and sometimes wonder if there's still an Italian presence. There are tons of strip clubs around here and I figure someone has to be running those rackets. Are they left over from the Trafficante days?

If you guys ever come down here, you should take a walk around Ybor City and eat at Columbia. It was Trafficante's favorite place to eat.

The vast majority of the mob's remaining presence seems to be in the Miami/South Florida area.

I know about the Russian-Jewish mob in Florida, but figured the Italians were all dead or in jail.

I guess that why the local real estate radio show describes that part of Florida as "Bankers and Gangsters".

That was a different article,I just pasted this insert from the article, "Once you get down to South Florida, you can move from family to family," Deitche explained. "It's not like New York. The market is wide open down there."

I find that kinda hard to believe, depending what tier you are on. If your running rackets and change alliances whose the money gonna get kicked up too? Any aficionados have an answer and/or suggestion to my question. Thanks - The Original Dicknose

This is good money for not a big crew, I'm going to Google some stuff, see if I can find this indictment. By just glancing at those numbers it makes a lot of modern day family rackets look like a joke.

Thanks for quotin' my post. Though I'd figure all that money had to have something to do with working with other criminal organizations either Italian or not.

Here's some cases over the last decade involving the Italian mob in Florida -


In January 2000, 5 people, including Colombo associate Joseph "Joey Flowers" Rotunno, were indicted in Florida on charges of operating a pyramid scheme that took in over $13 million from 48,000 people in 8 months through a company that claimed to help people buy computer equipment, set up home-office and small businesses, and engage in commerce on the internet.

In June 2000, 18 Colombo associates, including Joseph "Joey Flowers" Rotunno, were indicted in Florida on charges of illegal gambling, stolen goods, credit card fraud, bribery, and money laundering through check-cashing stores and pawn shops.

In September 2000, 9 Gambino members and associates, including captain Anthony “Tony Pep” Trentacosta, were indicted in Florida on charges of racketeering, loansharking, counterfeiting checks, selling stolen goods, and murder conspiracy.

In August 2001, 12 people involved in a Florida brokerage company owned by members and associates of the Colombo Family, including Domnick "Black Dom" Dionisio and Enricio Locascio, were indicted in the Eastern District for running a "pump and dump" stock fraud, through a company tied to late Colombo captain William "Wild Bill" Cutolo, that scammed $40 million from hundreds of investors.

In January 2002, 3 Gambino Family members and associates, Frank Basto, Joseph P. Fafone, and Joseph J. Fafone, were indicted in Florida on charges of running a sports betting operation and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

In March 2002, 29 people, including Bonanno Consigliere Anthony "TG" Graziano and Soldier John Zancocchio, were indicted in Florida on charges of telmarketing and wire fraud involving an $11.7 million "pump and dump" stock scam, illegal gambling, money laundering, and conspiracy to murder 2 Colombo associates.

In March 2003, Lucchese soldier Anthony Accetturo Jr. was named in a criminal complaint in Florida for extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the owner of a national moving and storage company, which Accetturo claimed he was owed a piece of.

In July 2004, and a superseding indictment in February 2005, officials of ILA Locals 1804-1 (North Bergen, NJ), 1922 (Miami), 1922-1 (Miami), and 2062 (Miami), Arthur Coffey, Harold Daggett, and Albert Cernada, all identified as Genovese Family associates, as well as Genovese acting captain, Lawrence "Larry" Ricci, were indicted in the Eastern District on charges of controlling postions, elections, and hiring in the ILA, extorting businesses on the New York, New Jersey, and Miami waterfronts. In July 2005, 35 people tied to the Genovese and Gambino Families, including several ILA officials, were named in a civil RICO complaint in the Eastern District on charges of labor racketeering, extortion, fraud, and money laundering related to ILA Locals 1 (New York/New Jersey), 824 (New York), 1235 (Newark/Elizabeth, NJ), 1588 (Bayonne/Jersey City, NJ), 1804-1 (North Bergen, NJ), 1814 (Brooklyn), 1922 (Miami), 1922-1 (Miami), 2019 (Florida?), and 2062 (Miami). I

In December 2004, 6 Gambino Family members and associates, including captain Ronald “Ronnie One Arm” Trucchio, were indicted in Florida on charges of robberies including home invasions and the robbery of $2 million from an armored car, extortion, collection of illegal gambling debts, loan sharking, money laundering, kidnapping, assault, murder, cocaine trafficking, and infiltration of businesses such as valet services, bars and clubs, a window and glass company, etc.

In February 2005, 23 Bonanno Family members and associates, including captain Gerard "Gerry" Chilli, were indicted in Florida on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, drug trafficking, stock fraud, stolen goods, and money laundering.

In September 2005, 3 Gambino Family associates, Anthony Moscatiello, Anthony Ferrari, and James Fiorillo, were indicted in Florida on murder charges.

In June 2006, 7 Genovese Family members and associates, including Captain Renaldi “Ray” Ruggiero, were indicted in Florida on charges of extortion, robbery, money laundering, loansharking, travel in aid of racketeering, posession of stolen property, and bank fraud.

In July 2007, a Gambino Family associate's (George Catalano) attempt to open a video gambling arcade in Florida was denied by officials.

In July 2007, 2 people with ties to the Colombo Family, Orlando and Barbara Sergi, were ordered in Florida to repay $280,000 they had extorted from a bettor in debt.

In January 2008, 6 Gambino Family members and associates, including captain Vincent "Vinny" Artuso, were indicted in Florida on charges of racketeering conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering involving a real estate scam that took in $7 million over a 5 year period.

In May 2009, 11 Bonanno Family members and associates, including Thomas Fiore, were indicted in Florida on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, manufacturing fraudulent checks, using false security numbers, trafficking in stolen plasma televisions and cigarettes, distribution of oxycodone and hydrocone, interstate transportation of stolen property, money laundering, loan sharking, extortion, running illegal high-stakes poker games, medicare fraud, and forcing business owners to install mob-controlled vending machines, obstruction of justice, and murder.

In March 2010, 6 people, including a Gambino Family member Gaetano Napoli Sr., and affiliate of the Siclian Mafia, Roberto Settineri, were indicted in the Eastern District and Florida on charges of obstruction of justice, extortion, concealment of assets in bankruptcy, laundering narcotics profits, trafficking in contraband cigarettes, wire fraud, as well as protecting Sicilian Mafia interests in the U.S.

It's interesting to note the lack of a heavy Lucchese presence in Florida.

Interesting about the Florida activity.

It's featured in the movie and book Donnie Brasco.

One of the things the Bonannos wanted to do was import NYC water to Tampa to make pizza. There's a pizzeria in downtown Tampa that markets itself as using NYC water to make better pizza. I can't help but think those owners were inspired by Donnie Brasco.

SKINNY, you should take one of my mob walking tours of Ybor. I think you'd enjoy it. Next on is March 24th. www.cigarcitymagazine.com/events

I stand by my quote there. You had/have a very fluid structure between families in S Florida. Look at Operation Cherokee from the late 80's. You had Gambino, Luchesse, Buffalo, and Bufalino guys working together. In The 2000 Raffa case, you had Gambino and Bonnano associates working with the Trafficantes.

If you look back, the situation was the same going back to the 50s and 60s.

Eddie and Sam's Pizza. They opened in 98, so they could have gotten the idea from Sonny Black!

That's interesting. Maybe I will go.

Scott D, I copied it from another site (not RD) and it said you made it. Well, the reason it doesn't list associates is because this is a chart on made men. Regardless, it is a very nice chart on the Tampa Mob.

ppl were made in the 2000s into the trafficante family?!! and i didnt know there was this much mob influence in florida!! all these diff families out there!

the remnants of the trafficante's work with the gambino's, who have operations going on in and around tampa.

didnt know that!

I'm surprised by that. Is that confirmed? I thought the last of the Trafficante's were either dead or extremely old and Gambinos run the Tampa rackets.

last making ceremony I am aware of took place in the mid 90s (the one where John Mamone was made), though there was some rumors of one in the early 2000s but just anecdotal info I've received.

Who's the boss in Tampa? I know there's not much structure anymore, but if they had ceremonies in the last few years there has to be someone.

Vince LoScalzo is the last known boss. However, like the late Michael Genovese or Pete Milano, that's more in name only now. Check out the article below.


Kingpin of no kingdom
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/11/25/Hillsborough/Kingpin_of_no_kingdom.shtml

Thanks for the article Ivy