The Debrief With MyronGainesX - Fed Explains The Most Powerful Italian Mafia In FL： The Trafficantes

00:00:00.960 and we are live what's up guys welcome to fed reacts man today we're going to be covering uh

00:00:05.520 what this is part six now i think of the mafia series guys we're going to be covering santo

00:00:10.400 trafficante man so we're going to cover the tampa side of la costa nostra let's go ahead and get

00:00:16.080 into it right away without any uh further ado so i got a documentary here guys they're going to

00:00:21.120 watch shout out to angie she's the one that actually found this for me um and it's right

00:00:27.200 here and it comes from uh this it comes from this uh this documentary called mobsters okay

00:00:33.920 we're going to cover this guy anything you want to um cover angie when it comes to this situation 0.87

00:00:38.080 because i know you had done some research prior about this no not much really but i mean it's

00:00:43.360 it's pretty deep uh all about all i i can say about this is that there is not enough content about this

00:00:50.880 family on youtube not even on rumble which is kind of shitty i mean and when i when i what i mean 0.51

00:00:57.040 by like there is not enough is that not enough for me at least because like i like to dive deep into

00:01:03.760 like what i'm researching so yeah i didn't find like pretty much like very good documentaries about

00:01:09.520 this you know why because this guy had intel links pretty well yeah probably yeah exactly like that's

00:01:16.080 another big reason too why they're not gonna yeah the video that i like the most was the one that we

00:01:19.920 watched about the cia and and yes lucy luciano and this lucky luciano and traffic content was involved

00:01:26.960 because fidel castro on that link with cuba which we're going to talk about uh as well guys but we're

00:01:31.920 going to go into way more detail on this with uh ryan dawson because all right yeah um i didn't tell you

00:01:38.080 we're going to come do it with ryan dawson you didn't tell me okay yes we're going to do a ryan dawson

00:01:42.640 uh which if you guys don't know fresh and fit uh well we had well we're going to bring up for fresh

00:01:48.160 and fit for 9 11 uh to finish the 9 11 series and then for the mafia we're going to bring them on fed 0.97

00:01:53.680 react oh by the way people were saying that there is a video of of of fed reacts that got

00:02:00.240 that they took it out one of the night 11 ones yes it was osama video yeah i already know yeah it's

00:02:05.680 lame dude i'm so pissed off about that and that was a good one too that was uh how the seal team took 0.75

00:02:09.520 them down yeah yeah you know why because i pulled 60 minutes footage from it 60 minutes was being

00:02:16.320 super lame so keep that in the in our in the back our back pocket next time we do 60 minutes we have

00:02:21.760 to be careful okay yeah stop it more 60 minutes yeah you have to stop it more yeah so that's really

00:02:27.680 what it comes down to uh but yeah guys uh and i apologize guys if we're a little bit tired uh this

00:02:32.960 is our third podcast of the day uh if you guys aren't aware i'm filming this on it's thursday

00:02:38.720 morning now six in the morning uh we roasted apple and peach earlier then we went ahead and

00:02:44.400 did an awesome podcast with zirka and sneko and yeah man at the end of the day guys you know some

00:02:49.440 of you guys you know this is the fed reacts out of the things but just to give you a quick little

00:02:52.800 summary they talk first we merely responded the guys made 20 plus videos on us guys and if you

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00:03:04.880 fucking all the other guys in the rp space they've just been talking shit for years guys so i said 0.99

00:03:12.320 you know what tired of this we're going to roast these clowns and that we did my friends because 1.00

00:03:17.840 not only do we debunk all their bs with receipts we went ahead and played their game and just 0.94

00:03:23.600 absolutely annihilated them from a joke standpoint because remember these guys are comedians and they

00:03:27.440 always like to hide under the guise of comedy it's okay i'll multi uh vary my friends i can do that too

00:03:32.720 but anyway without further ado guys we're going to go ahead and cover santo chavacante here

00:03:37.760 part of the mafia series let's get into it

00:03:51.760 april 18th 1955

00:03:56.160 local resident charlie wall stumbled through the streets of downtown tampa

00:04:00.240 trucking in and out of local bars to look at him wall seemed like a typical bum 1.00

00:04:10.880 but the 73 year old mobster had run a criminal empire in tampa

00:04:16.160 controlling the area's illegal gambling rackets and corrupting local politicians charlie wall was one of

00:04:22.880 the first real underworld kingpins in tampa in fact he was called the dean of the underworld but santo

00:04:29.360 trafficante jr and his father santo senior had taken wall's territory by force

00:04:39.840 wall bitterly resented the trafficantes and wanted them dead 0.84

00:04:45.680 for the rest of the night he ran his mouth all over town about his hatred for the family

00:04:51.360 and there were people that said he was simply bad-mouthing trafficante quite frequently

00:04:57.680 two days later charlie wall's wife returned home from vacation

00:05:03.040 whatever welcome she expected a much different one greeted her

00:05:08.560 she found her husband in a pool of blood brutally murdered wearing only a nightshirt

00:05:13.760 he was found with his throat cut and he had his head bashed in with a billy club

00:05:20.080 santo jr had sent and guys with the mafia it's all about sending messages and letting people know

00:05:25.440 hey you around and find out a deadly message no one crosses the trafficante family 0.99

00:05:40.800 1901 13 years before santo jr was even born

00:05:47.520 santo trafficante the first made the long voyage from italy to the united states in search of the american

00:05:54.480 dream the 14 year old and his family settled in tampa which was still a young city

00:06:04.800 tampa was really a one-horse town literally it was very undeveloped and even when the cigar

00:06:10.800 factories first came in it was still you know swampy mosquito infested

00:06:16.400 within the italian section of the city and through his underworld dealing 0.96

00:06:20.160 santo met and dated a local girl maria giuseppe cacciatore

00:06:28.640 she was the sister of jojo cacciatore a known drug kingpin

00:06:35.600 dating progressed to courtship and in april 1909 santo and maria were married

00:06:42.560 unlike new york florida was an open state for organized crime regardless of family or background

00:06:52.400 up-and-coming mobsters could set up shop anywhere

00:06:57.280 this meant that illegal rackets were under control by several factions such as southern mobster charlie wall

00:07:04.320 and mafia drug kingpin ignacio antinori these were rivals tampa was very violent back in the day in

00:07:11.520 fact go ahead ahead angie these were both rivals yeah so they both kept like uh they organized crime

00:07:18.800 in tampa but they were like from different families so charlie wall was like the biggest rival for

00:07:24.320 traffic the traffic county family actually he was the one i i guess i mentioned this in the documentary

00:07:30.160 but he was the one who killed auntie nori and then santa traffic onto two place bam okay angie okay

00:07:36.880 she did her research on this one guys by the way there was a an article that came out that actually

00:07:42.320 labeled tampa sort of the hellhole of the gulf coast

00:07:51.440 santa was intrigued by the underworld and started running his own small-scale version of the illegal spanish

00:07:57.920 lottery called bolita you had 100 balls they were numbered one to 100 people would bet on what

00:08:06.640 ball would be chosen they would get them in a sack and shake them up a little bit and choose a ball and

00:08:10.800 that would be the winning number uh yeah ignacio antinori the most powerful italian mobster in tampa

00:08:19.600 took notice of young travacante's growing bolita rackets

00:08:22.800 santo joined on tanori's gang and expanded his bolita games to cover the entire gulf coast

00:08:34.400 young trafficante raked in the cash

00:08:39.920 santo took his job seriously and soon established a ruthless reputation

00:08:44.960 my aunt aunt and rose she was a victim of domestic violence and her husband beat her up something 0.99

00:08:53.040 fierce santo trafficante broke his arms this guy never touched my aunt again okay guys this game

00:08:59.840 bolita came from cuba i just wanted to say that because in venezuela we call it lottery it's like the

00:09:07.200 lottery people will call it just regular lottery but yeah it this comes from cuba this this kind of

00:09:12.960 gambling it's very very famous used to be very famous and also just so you guys know las vegas

00:09:21.120 came from this you guys are going to see how las vegas came in a little bit because cuba was the place

00:09:25.440 to go to gamble back yes meanwhile santo and his wife maria started a family in 1914 luigi santo trafficante

00:09:35.360 was born the second of five sons the boy was nicknamed santo jr

00:09:44.960 santo jr was often seen at his father's side at restaurants

00:09:49.360 like the columbia and la tropicana it's clear he saw something at an early age

00:09:55.040 there was a quickness about santo jr there was a determination that was lacking in the other sons

00:10:05.520 and so when santo jr began to express an interest in the father's business endeavors the father was

00:10:14.560 very quick to invite him into the fold

00:10:17.200 while santo jr was raising his children and running the bolita rackets down in tampa his

00:10:24.800 counterparts up in new york overthrew the old guard and ushered in a new way of operating

00:10:32.880 mobsters like lucky luciano and tommy lucchese thought blood between gangs was bad for business

00:10:38.720 as opposed to the old mustache pete's lucchese and luciano would partner up with anyone that could

00:10:47.200 bring in more money guys like santo trafficante senior may 1929 the up-and-coming mobster received an

00:11:01.760 invite to represent the tampa mob at a high-powered meeting in atlantic city at the president hotel

00:11:09.360 santo trafficante senior took a train up to new york to support lucky luciano and some of the

00:11:15.440 other powerhouses in the new york mob guys if you don't know who lucky luciano is i

00:11:21.280 highly recommend that you go back and watch the first episode that we covered on the mafia

00:11:26.320 where we talk about origins hierarchy how the commission came to be how the crime families came

00:11:30.960 to be of new york etc that's going to make a lot more sense for you but long story short lucky

00:11:35.440 luciano is the father of organized crime aka the mafia in the united states if you guys have come

00:11:40.640 to learn it but if you guys want more details on this being a made man all that stuff go watch the

00:11:46.080 first episode in the mafia series it'll make everything make sense if anything it's very

00:11:50.160 important because you'll see the names of lucky luciano and tommy lucchese all through the the whole

00:11:56.480 mafia series and it's very important to know what's the background like for these guys yeah you got to

00:12:01.920 understand the foundation to understand this part of it you know what i'm saying so i really highly

00:12:06.960 recommend you guys go back and watch that in terms of how they were going to structure the mob in the

00:12:12.160 northeast and to better part of the entire country at the time the mafia wanted one point of contact

00:12:20.480 for the entire state of florida and more importantly cuba

00:12:28.000 mobsters invested heavily in cuban narcotics but couldn't communicate in spanish

00:12:36.080 santo trafficante senior uh angie isn't italian fairly similar to spanish um so italian it's a latin

00:12:46.000 language it's a it's a it's a latin language just like portuguese so yes it has some similarities

00:12:53.600 it's not as similar as portuguese to spanish but we can understand certain words yes you gotcha

00:12:59.920 so if an italian spoke to you would you understand them no no no i will say like 40 percent okay it

00:13:06.720 depends on the words i will like understand the context of what he will say or something like the

00:13:11.120 person will say but i love the whole thing it's very difficult yeah it's it's more easier it's

00:13:15.760 easier with portuguese though ah okay i will understand like 80 percent of a portuguese at the

00:13:20.560 bill he was born in italy but spent much of his childhood in florida even though italian was his

00:13:27.600 first language he quickly learned english and unlike the new york gangsters he was fluent in spanish

00:13:35.840 most of the guys from new york were barely speaking english at that time you know and and also you

00:13:40.080 guys got to remember in florida you know there was a fairly strong hispanic culture i mean there's

00:13:44.240 still a strong hispanic culture here but it wasn't the same as new york so uh he was able to adapt and

00:13:48.960 pick up another language in florida which put him in a very uh how do i say this pivotal position to be

00:13:54.880 able to make some moves for the mafia actually uh the the influence of florida with the spanish is

00:14:00.720 because of the cubans and you see a lot of white in this in this like because of this mafia though

00:14:07.040 because of cubans you know cuba is like really near uh florida yeah and like it seems like for

00:14:13.440 centuries like centuries right decades yeah uh decades uh cubans have been like you know migrating

00:14:22.720 i've been migrating to florida that's why there has there is like a high influence of cubans in here

00:14:28.000 in florida still to this day there are millions of cubans here yeah they're all over miami i'll tell you all

00:14:33.200 that yeah none of angie's one of them no she hates their spanish so he had this little bit of an edge

00:14:41.600 there trafficante was practically a native and to new york bosses santo was the perfect go-between

00:14:52.560 santo was gaining influence but he still had to deal with his main opposition in tampa

00:14:58.160 mobster charlie wall charlie wall was just a real bad character but because his family was tied into

00:15:05.680 a lot of the power elite in tampa at the time as he rose through the criminal ranks he still maintained

00:15:10.480 a lot of those contacts with the judges the politicians the police wall watched santo carefully

00:15:17.360 but didn't consider him a threat the gangster was more concerned with trafficante's boss ignacio antinori

00:15:27.200 in 1930 while tension built between wall and antinori 15 year old santo jr dropped out of high

00:15:34.640 school his father told him that he's not going to learn anything more than high school he can learn

00:15:38.880 more hanging out with his father and going to new york attending the meetings being part of the bolita

00:15:44.000 rackets and and obviously getting to know these figures in this underworld and from there it was just

00:15:50.400 a it was a straight straight shot up he was very smart he was determined he was ambitious and he did

00:16:00.240 not take no for an answer easily as part of his training his father sent him on long trips to new york

00:16:11.600 the elder trafficante was close to several leaders in the new york mafia

00:16:15.520 and wanted his son to learn firsthand how they operated

00:16:22.880 keep in mind guys all the italian immigrants came to the united states in the early 1900s

00:16:27.360 and that was their base of operations so this was really the only big family operating out of florida

00:16:32.240 so you obviously had to come back and kind of pay homage and deal with the the main boss out of new york

00:16:36.960 uh charlie wall back then like in the like early 50s early 50s 40s he was the leader in like the the

00:16:49.040 crime organization of gambling and prostitution and between these two um these two like i don't know

00:16:56.800 how to say this but maybe yeah like these two factions of like crime families they were there was

00:17:02.240 like a huge competition over taking this uh business you know like gambling and because

00:17:08.160 transatlantic country wanted to take over like everything because this was like the i don't know

00:17:13.760 how to say this but like uh i don't know how to say this but like the biggest what's the word though man

00:17:22.240 i don't know the word saying in spanish for the spanish speakers out there uh yes i don't know how

00:17:28.320 to explain it though um this was like the biggest yeah lb right um langie i don't have i don't have my

00:17:35.680 hang on forget about it just just keep playing i'll say later fair enough forget about it yeah senior

00:17:43.040 had another reason for sending his son to new york tampa was at war

00:17:50.640 two rival gangs headed by if you think of it let me know yeah yeah and ignacio antinori fought for

00:17:56.480 control of florida's gambling rackets that's what i was trying to say for control of the gambling

00:18:03.360 rackets yeah they wanted to take control over this huge i don't know the word but gambling

00:18:08.960 yeah rackets no how do you say gambling in spanish gambling apostar apostas okay you should just

00:18:15.360 say in spanish so senior stayed clear of the conflict hoping to gain power simply by surviving the bloody feud

00:18:22.080 when the smoke cleared ignacio antinori was dead charlie wall had lost most of his crew

00:18:33.680 and santo trafficante was stronger than ever ultimately charlie wall got pushed out i mean

00:18:40.000 he could not compete with the traffic counties santo senior was poised to take control of wall's territory

00:18:47.440 but the government was gunning for him

00:18:53.440 the new boss of tampa was in trouble keep in mind guys this is pre rico though

00:19:03.920 in the 1930s a bitter street war erupted between rival tampa gangs

00:19:08.640 in a period later called the era of blood mobsters ignacio antinori and charlie wall traded hits for 10 long years

00:19:25.920 until gunman finally killed antinori with a sold off shotgun

00:19:29.840 the war virtually wiped out both sides leaving a power vacuum behind

00:19:40.960 with his main competition decimated up and coming mobster santo trafficante senior

00:19:46.880 took over all major gambling rackets

00:19:49.120 santo senior became the boss of tampa he really solidified his hold for the next decade trafficante

00:20:01.920 reigned quietly over his florida territory but a new threat was looming

00:20:06.480 the federal government was bearing down on the mafia

00:20:24.720 in 1950 tennessee senator estes kefauver took aim at organized crime in america

00:20:30.560 the tremendous importance of organized crime uh it's even greater than we thought it was

00:20:40.560 as part of his senate ink and just so you guys know back then they were just coming off the

00:20:45.440 prohibition era the mafia had made millions upon millions of dollars if we were to equate it to

00:20:51.040 today's dollars guys it would be billions okay so there was a huge organized crime problem

00:20:57.280 back then and keep in mind they didn't have the technology or the sophisticated police

00:21:00.960 skill set and technology that they have nowadays so organized crime was running rampant guys query

00:21:07.520 kefauver across the country investigating the mob through televised hearings

00:21:15.200 senator estes kefauver was an ambitious young liberal senator from tennessee and like many politicians he

00:21:23.600 decided liberal by standards in the 1930s not today guys not today he'd be considered a staunch republican

00:21:31.120 nowadays it's amazing how the left is considerably changed over the decades but being conservative

00:21:38.000 not too much a guy that was liberal 10 years ago someone like maybe like a tim cast would be labeled a

00:21:43.040 leftist nowadays is considered a republican that goes to tell you guys how much changes in just 10 years

00:21:49.920 that he was going to make a name for himself by looking into organized crime in december kefauver's

00:21:56.960 tour stopped in tampa and issued a flurry of subpoenas to members of the criminal underworld

00:22:04.560 the main goal of the kefauver hearings was basically to target corruption in tampa and tampa is

00:22:11.520 actually one of the highlights because this is the first time that america got to see these mobsters on tv

00:22:19.920 the committee then turned its attention to the trafficantes

00:22:24.800 they estimated the family took in more than 15 million dollars a year in illegal gambling alone

00:22:32.800 the tennessee senator subpoenaed both santo senior and junior to testify before the committee

00:22:40.320 kefauver then ratcheted up the pressure just so you guys know 15 million dollars in 1930 is the

00:22:49.600 equivalent to 272 million 481 thousand dollars wow uh pretty much a year so these guys were making over

00:22:57.120 quarter of a billion dollars a year allegedly according to the government even further by calling

00:23:03.600 one of trafficante's oldest rivals 71 year old charlie wall

00:23:10.000 kefauver and real quick just to let you guys know this was huge back then because remember

00:23:15.040 what does omorta mean code of silence not talk about our stuff the mafia isn't even supposed to exist at

00:23:21.360 this point in the 1930s guys the united states still didn't really know what the mafia was they kind of

00:23:28.000 knew about these dudes that somewhat supplied alcohol and killed each other and were spoke italian 0.62

00:23:32.880 but they didn't know how deep it was they didn't know that it was a very sophisticated and organized

00:23:39.520 criminal organization so they're trying to bring these guys into testify to get more information

00:23:44.400 because they did not have the same information that they ended up getting decades later guys keep in

00:23:48.800 mind this is 1930 this is 55 years before mafia members are finally indicted under rico statues thanks to

00:23:59.200 thanks to rudy giuliani okay new york city uh just to just fyi for you guys there were 27 families

00:24:12.800 throughout america in between the the 19th the yeah the the early 1900s like i have them all here

00:24:22.240 it's a whole list holy only put it to the screen real quick and maybe someone might want to pause it

00:24:28.000 and read through it bam uh move it back a bit there you go guys right handwriting sucks but english is a 0.71

00:24:32.800 second language there we go what my handwriting is nice yeah just you remember i didn't put like the

00:24:39.040 five families of new york but i feel like the five families every year you know there is five but

00:24:43.360 there were more in new york you know banana and all that which we covered all five of them by the way

00:24:47.280 guys if you guys are wondering those were the like the main ones but you know they're like also like

00:24:51.440 very important ones like the philly one the uh the one in first sylvania this one is tampa you have

00:24:57.760 speaking of which angie should we should we cover the philly mob as well i think so because they've 0.99

00:25:03.440 been asking for it too and the mafia cops yeah you guys i have a like a new list i've been updating

00:25:08.960 the list of requests for all you guys asking for the philly mob you guys got it angie put y'all on

00:25:14.320 so don't make fun of her english too much because i was honestly gonna call it after i brought ryan

00:25:20.880 dawson and covered how uh lucky luciano this guy trafficante etc were involved with intelligence

00:25:25.760 agencies but since you guys have requested the philly mob and she's been seeing you guys requesting it

00:25:32.240 we'll extend the mafia series another week next week we'll do the philly mob then we'll bring in ryan

00:25:37.040 dawson and talk about uh intelligence agencies and they're uh working with uh lucos and we're

00:25:42.160 gonna keep like making like cases of like serial killers i want to do charles manson mario wants to

00:25:47.680 do my mind wants to do uh jack the ripper and yeah i think we'll give you all jack the ripper first

00:25:53.600 and then we'll hit because charles manson that's going to be extensive but they've been asking for

00:25:58.560 charles manson for ages yeah they have they have but charles manson is going to take some time and

00:26:03.200 serious research is one of my favorite ones yeah because because the thing is with with jack awareness

00:26:09.520 yeah we got that's fine she we could cover that one easy but uh uh charles manson is going to take 0.99

00:26:14.960 time because i mean look at son of sam we literally spent all day yeah son of sam researching a

00:26:22.160 researching son of sam because the once you get into cults guys it just starts to get weird it's 0.95

00:26:28.480 deep yes and then on top of that right we got guys saying there was no call this is bullshit oh 0.84

00:26:35.440 all this other stuff right which is fine but you actually you have to go there and acknowledge it as

00:26:40.480 well we had some people saying oh you didn't you didn't you know report it correctly blah blah blah

00:26:46.560 it is what it is i mean you can't dispute eyewitnesses coming up with different that

00:26:51.760 eyewitnesses that independently don't know each other saying like yo this was the shooter this was the

00:26:58.160 shooter and all the sketches are vastly different yeah yeah i i want to go through real quick and

00:27:03.840 this is this like a short list of requests because i have i have updated it and and these are like

00:27:11.920 recent cases that you guys been requesting this this like like the old cases you guys been requested

00:27:16.160 but like the most requested ones too and i got west memphis tree remember that case i'll tell you about

00:27:22.800 the the three guys the three little kids that that got killed in memphis um el chapel we're going to

00:27:29.600 cover that one we're going to cover the mexican cartels and we're going to cover the colombian

00:27:33.600 cartels too yeah um that's a very important one that's coming very soon you guys like after we do

00:27:38.160 the mafia we're probably going to take like a two-week break guys right not cover any big organizations

00:27:42.400 maybe do like uh serial killer hair yeah uh like you know one-off requests that you guys have and

00:27:47.840 then we'll go ahead and go full-fledged into the colombians first then into um the mexicans and the 0.98

00:27:53.920 reason why is because whenever we cover these uh big criminal organizations it takes multiple episodes

00:27:59.360 and i want to give you all breaks in between i mean hell you guys are probably la costa no straight out

00:28:03.280 at this point you know but this is what y'all get you guys asked yeah and we're giving it to y'all i

00:28:08.640 told you we wouldn't be able to do it justice if we did it one episode i knew we're gonna this is

00:28:13.040 going to be a month-long plus thing so for all you guys i wanted mafia i'll get in what you want

00:28:17.680 but understand if we cover a big organization we're going to want to do it thoroughly i don't want to

00:28:21.680 bullshit it yeah uh yeah so we're gonna of course we're not gonna cover like the serial killers 0.57

00:28:27.280 uh main ones ed kemper it's a big one i've been wanting to do that one like for a while now 0.99

00:28:32.720 alien awareness uh i got here robert hansen um we could give them jack the ripper

00:28:38.480 this sunday is what i'm thinking because the thing with jack the ripper guys is like they never

00:28:41.840 caught him it's a fairly clear-cut case he only killed like four or five people he didn't kill

00:28:46.160 that many people the reason why people remember him is because number one it's unsolved number two the

00:28:52.160 the violence the carnage of how he killed these women and you know he was kind of like a folk 0.99

00:28:58.240 a folklore individual in you know british uh history so we'll cover him because that's going to kind

00:29:04.080 of be simple there's not much out there they never caught the guy yeah um i still think the zodiac

00:29:08.560 killer is call it cooler in my opinion if we're going to talk about unsolved killers i think the

00:29:12.240 killer is way cooler but um which go go watch that one that was actually one of my favorite ones guys

00:29:17.600 but yeah we got y'all don't worry we're gonna cover the big criminal organizations i know you guys keep

00:29:21.440 asking keep asking keep asking but we eventually give you guys what you want hell yeah i asked for the dc

00:29:25.360 sniper forever and we did a fucking bang-up job on that one yeah so that this sniper case was 0.94

00:29:31.200 hell the son of sam one was fucking lit like yo and and guys that one took i am never gonna cram 0.99

00:29:37.440 research ever again one day like that the son of sam when i crammed it for a day literally was just 0.98

00:29:43.680 focusing focusing focusing watching hours and hours of content figuring out what was good what wasn't

00:29:47.920 bad etc what y'all would be entertained by which you guys wouldn't while simultaneously making sure that

00:29:51.920 we don't get we'll hit with copyright playing just a little bit giving commentary

00:29:55.520 getting uh kim that was very chronological anyhow it was a little bit hard for me because marion

00:30:00.640 got like all these tabs and i was like here kind of like doing the whole thing so yeah i i saw you

00:30:06.320 guys complaining a little bit about that on the comments but it should get better yeah i hope so

00:30:11.760 but yeah i mean it was like a lot of work it was like a lot of work and it was a lot of research too

00:30:17.040 yeah because see i love documentaries like this because they're fairly straightforward we could just react to

00:30:21.840 this but whenever we got like a really big case like that or like we have to cover certain things

00:30:26.480 we have to chop it up put it in a certain way where it makes chronological sense while also making

00:30:32.560 factual sense and it's entertaining so we're balancing a bunch of things and guys there's a

00:30:37.280 bunch of people that y'all requested that we went and extensively did research on and we just were like 0.74

00:30:42.800 not right now that this is we got to find another way to cover this because this documentary sucks this 0.68

00:30:47.360 case isn't exciting enough we're literally we're always like concerned with giving y'all entertainment

00:30:51.600 as well we understand that it's about education but we want to give you guys entertainment in the

00:30:54.800 same process yeah uh well real quick um so yeah charles manson they're filling up you have you guys

00:31:01.040 been requesting a lot i told marion this earlier you guys been requesting the michael jackson 93 n05 cases

00:31:08.560 yeah i keep seeing that in the comments yeah yeah they've been requesting that chris torner aaron hernandez

00:31:14.160 um the reason why and for some of you guys that keep asking about michael jackson i will cover it

00:31:19.600 but that bro you want to talk about that's going to be controversial i was always half the audience

00:31:25.440 is going to be mad as hell the other half is going to be like mike's innocent like it's

00:31:29.920 yeah bro i was in fifth grade graduating fifth grade when michael jackson died and i remember that

00:31:35.360 i cried because i really like his music and i really wanted to meet i don't care what nobody says i mean

00:31:41.200 michael jackson is a legend people could talk all they want like blah blah blah like bro the man

00:31:47.120 transcended countries border like borders etc and here's the other thing too that check out remember

00:31:54.160 he was famous like that before social media yes like i don't think you guys remember what life was like

00:32:02.480 but for some of y'all that are older absolutely but for you young guys you could have become famous unless

00:32:08.560 you were an actual star you understand you had to have hollywood backing you had to have a record

00:32:14.320 deal you had to have major um like big components behind you to push you this idea of being a

00:32:22.400 influencer or a celeb through social media on your own terms that wasn't a thing back then so for you to

00:32:29.120 blow up you actually had to be talented you actually had to be somebody and then on top of that if you were

00:32:33.840 famous back then it was fame for real not nowadays no and also you gotta remember that michael jackson

00:32:41.040 was the first one in doing like like a bunch of stuff like from single patterns like from dancing

00:32:47.840 stuff like there is a lot of all these musicians nowadays like there is a lot of copycats for him

00:32:53.680 like i love rumors bruno more is like a one of the biggest one uh copycat of michael jackson

00:32:59.040 oh yeah everybody yo any r&b artist chris brown like the weekend like yeah but they give their

00:33:06.480 flowers though they do say that mike inspired me they do of course but like they all came from him

00:33:11.120 you know like michael jackson was like the father and here's the other thing too like just to put

00:33:15.600 things in perspective for you guys like people always say drake is famous famous

00:33:20.560 you michael jackson 10x that that was michael jackson's fame dude used to go to foreign third

00:33:29.840 world countries and they knew who he was yeah drake can't go who was in the middle of nowhere and 0.53

00:33:34.960 people will know who he is the before him yeah that's true before him i will say elvis presley

00:33:41.360 but even then even then like michael jackson was like i think i think jackson surpassed presley

00:33:46.480 and in fame personally yeah but but remember that presley was like way older though oh yeah

00:33:51.120 yeah of course before like a whole yeah he was a whole other yeah he was a whole other thing but i

00:33:56.640 i would say if you had to put like level of fame i would say like not even close like you

00:34:03.120 do you think so i don't think anybody really comes as close to jackson

00:34:07.760 i love michael jackson too i'm not like being honest like like if you really think about like

00:34:12.160 how did we end up talking about this look the point i'm trying to make guys is uh before we

00:34:16.800 digress here since his 90s yeah like yeah like jackson his level of fame like bro he would make

00:34:25.520 someone like like rihanna's considered famous draken's considered famous like beyonce these

00:34:29.360 are considered like international superstars joke compared to mike you know there are plenty there

00:34:34.160 and they have social media on their side you know if michael jackson lived in today's era

00:34:38.560 how we have social media yeah that's what i was supposed to say like there's there's plenty

00:34:43.040 conspiracy theories that he's alive still that he got killed something happened to him something

00:34:49.360 made it's something happened to him like there are so many conspiracy theories like i will break them

00:34:54.240 down in one day in one case he's 100 then me and you both know that yeah of course of course

00:34:59.280 he is like there is no way he will get through favorite favorite michael jackson song shoot

00:35:04.240 dude i'm i'm basic thriller right there and then the song it came out it came out sunk it came out

00:35:13.040 when i like the year i was born you can see like how old i am now but like that's my favorite

00:35:19.440 thriller came out in the 80s no well the video sorry the video came out my mom told me it came out

00:35:26.400 in my on my on my birth year but she lied to you bro dude brother was released i saw a concert i saw

00:35:34.480 a concert my mom was like joe that was when you were born that year like when when the probably

00:35:40.240 when he was performing it no the video man like the video hold on i'm about to look this up right now

00:35:45.600 you're my mom lied to me don't tell me that i'm dying i'm almost certain it's like 1983 1984 let me

00:35:53.360 look 1982 what yeah your mom lied i'm out yeah yeah yeah you're gone yeah my uh yeah november 30th 1982

00:36:08.480 guys was when thriller was released no and then you know what okay um thriller music video okay look it up

00:36:21.600 music video hold on i don't want to say how old i am now december 1983.

00:36:29.200 yeah your mom lied to you bro she she said she said that you will be old as hell if you came out

00:36:34.880 if you were born when this came out oh yeah dude like you are hold on let me add this to stream hold 0.96

00:36:41.440 on damn it yeah this is right here november 30th um anyway november sorry november 30th 1982 was the 0.97

00:36:50.080 when it came out on um the album and then the music video december 2nd 1983. damn it well it's my it's 0.96

00:36:59.360 still my favorite sounds to this day blue jeans is also another one but like thriller is my favorite

00:37:04.800 one because uh i love the movie uh 13 going to 30. i don't know if that's the name in english though

00:37:11.440 and when that movie came out i was like my mom already told me this like that that video came

00:37:16.400 out on my birthday i wouldn't be believing your mom anymore yeah i don't believe her anymore

00:37:21.120 that's why women deserve less because we'll come in in spanish yeah definitely coming in spanish and 1.00

00:37:25.920 just so y'all know and she grew up in venice well she didn't even grow up in united states and she

00:37:28.880 knows who michael jackson is and on top of that she was like she wasn't even like alive neither was

00:37:35.440 i when his music was actually in its prime which is when the 80s and early 90s uh the what i will

00:37:40.880 say is this though my favorite mike michael jackson song is actually you rock my world really that's

00:37:45.600 my favorite even though it came out later on i can name like a yeah smooth criminal is one of my

00:37:49.360 favorite too those are all classes i mean i love michael jackson like i love him like i cry when he died

00:37:54.800 and i was only like 10 years old something like that i don't remember how old it was but i was in

00:37:58.880 my graduation party for like fifth grade i think i remember and all my friends were like in the pool

00:38:05.200 you know like dancing to like two i don't know when he was when he died he was 2008. i think it was

00:38:12.880 june of 2009 let me look this up if i remember they were all dancing and going to the pool and like

00:38:19.360 party and i was like dude michael jackson died what i was crying my i was like crying to my brother

00:38:27.600 like he died june 25th 2009 i knew it yep yeah yeah i knew it yep june 25th 2000 i was crying and

00:38:35.520 i was 10 years old that goes to show influence i don't remember how old i was but i was young as

00:38:41.520 and i was crying crying man yeah it was a sad day it was very sad me and all my friends were

00:38:47.040 but i remember we're in new york city we're in new york city when that shit happened he actually 0.75

00:38:50.960 came to wenezuela once i believe it i believe it well anyway uh with that said we'll cover michael

00:38:56.560 jackson guys don't worry but as you guys could see that name sparks a lot of passion from people

00:39:02.320 because as much as you see me and angie love michael jackson there's gonna be a bunch of 0.85

00:39:06.480 fucking people in the comments saying he was a butterfly yeah he did this yeah so i already know what 0.93

00:39:11.760 type of time that is and we'll cover michael jackson but as you guys can see he he's like trump 0.99

00:39:16.720 almost like it's like a lightning rod of emotion you either love him or you hate him uh but anyway

00:39:21.680 let's continue on with the traffic content sorry for the the delay there wasn't after the has-been

00:39:26.560 mobster he wanted information on the trafficantes charlie wall did testify at that committee hearing

00:39:33.840 just to recap guys because we went on a tangent there a bit they're bringing in mafia members and or

00:39:39.440 associates in to testify to pretty much pull the hood off of organized crime in the united states

00:39:46.400 after the prohibition era or at the heels of the prohibition i think prohibition ended

00:39:50.080 in the early 30s if i'm not mistaken and kind of outlined a lot of the structure of organized crime

00:39:55.840 in tampa for the first time the federal government understood the nature of the trafficante family

00:40:03.920 business 1933 and i was i was 12 in 2009 that was enough for santos senior and son

00:40:14.400 the trafficantes packed their bags

00:40:18.400 they skipped town cuba was a place where they can go to when the heat got too much in

00:40:23.760 in the united states and it was a place where they were making money legally

00:40:27.600 where they had you know a lot of things at their fingertips

00:40:34.400 the trafficantes settled in and found just about anything at their disposal

00:40:39.920 i mean it was santo's fantasy island i mean he had free reign of not only the casinos but anything

00:40:45.600 he he wanted he could get i mean anything he wanted you had people like sinatra and marilyn

00:40:51.680 monroe and top celebrities going down there and i think a really good parallel would be las vegas

00:40:57.120 today where you have all these celebrities going there and havana became that place

00:41:04.720 for years the trafficantes had funneled millions from american mobsters to cuban dictator fulgencia batista

00:41:11.760 the cuban leader in turn kept the local authorities away from their narcotics rackets 0.92

00:41:21.920 and right here guys was the cornerstone of how the mafia was able to make so much goddamn money in cuba 0.76

00:41:28.400 this is before fidel castro which we're gonna see what happens when he gets in office 0.96

00:41:33.280 the relationship between the mob and batista was thoroughly absolutely corrupt

00:41:39.520 um batista made a fortune off of the mob's presence in havana he got a skim from everything

00:41:49.840 santo senior in i think if i'm not mistaken guys the trafficantes were kicking up like 10

00:41:55.440 or something like that to to the government which is why uh they were able to enjoy pretty much working

00:42:02.080 with zero type of issues and regulations because remember guys the way the mafia looked at it is

00:42:08.880 well if we operate in cuba we don't have to worry about um you know american regulation all these

00:42:16.000 codes that we gotta follow blah blah blah they were able to just open up casinos not worry about permits

00:42:20.800 not worry about nothing get their stuff done make as much money as they want it as long as they kick it

00:42:24.960 up to you know the president and they're able to operate and do illegal stuff without being prosecuted

00:42:30.240 that is why cuba was such a gold mine to the trafficantes and other italian uh locosa

00:42:36.400 notion members that want to make money in cuba off of gambling remember guys they didn't want to be

00:42:41.040 doing drug dealing back then right they kind of some of them were involved in whatever but typically

00:42:44.640 drug trafficking was a big no-no when it came to organized crime for the mafia or if they did do

00:42:50.000 it they better do a good job of hiding it and keep themselves at least one layer removed because

00:42:53.920 drug trafficking would get you killed in that life back in the day and this was confirmed

00:42:57.600 by capo michael francis on multiple uh podcasts that we did with him shots michael francis as well go

00:43:03.200 subscribe to this channel awesome dude man uh but yeah guys let's keep going enjoyed his time in cuba

00:43:11.280 but the 64 year old's health had become an issue he was diagnosed with stomach cancer

00:43:19.440 santo senior knew his time was running out

00:43:23.920 so he started handing over the reins of his operation to his son

00:43:27.360 he prepared himself for it um it was clear from his conversations with his father that he was going

00:43:35.600 to inherit the mantle of leadership back in tampa the kefauver committee had left town

00:43:44.560 the trafficantes could safely return to florida but they would soon encounter a full-scale mob war

00:43:52.160 the stakes were high the trafficantes could either wipe out the competition or lose everything they had

00:44:03.040 tampa prepared for war

00:44:04.960 in 1950

00:44:16.240 in 1950 tampa mobsters santo travacanti senior and his son had an opportunity to consolidate their rule over

00:44:24.240 crime in the state

00:44:25.200 one of their competitors

00:44:30.480 mobster red italiano had his own gambling rackets but left town during the kefauver hearings and never came back

00:44:40.720 while red was gone his gang would answer to his inexperienced right-hand man jimmy lumia

00:44:48.000 the trafficantes thought they could take advantage of lumia's weak leadership

00:44:52.080 and seize the gang's bolita rackets the trafficantes never had a lot of members so they never really

00:44:58.240 had the strength to exert their influence completely over south florida although a lot

00:45:03.440 of gangsters that did business in south florida would either pay tribute or ask permission or go

00:45:08.240 into business with the trafficantes so they still had their fingers in the pie but they didn't

00:45:12.880 per se control miami and south florida

00:45:15.120 it was time for santo jr to act and take out his rivals once and for all

00:45:31.840 in the days leading up to the war with lumia santo jr assumed day-to-day management of the family

00:45:37.760 business the young man carried himself with an air of calm dignity he hardly looked like a gangster

00:45:47.040 he was not the typical mafia chieftain i mean this was someone who was well-read he was very well-groomed

00:45:52.000 horn-ringed glasses and tailor-made suits i mean this is these are not the thugs that you'd see

00:45:56.880 on the streets in the north of the united states so there's a totally different kind of breed 1.00

00:46:01.440 santo jr was described by most people that knew him as this kind quiet gentleman he was really

00:46:08.640 respected by other mafia figures as well as people in the legitimate business world he kept a really

00:46:13.520 low key but there was a side of santo jr that people rarely saw unlike his father who was content to rule

00:46:22.960 quietly behind the scenes santo jr was more direct brutal at times the upcoming war with jimmy lumia

00:46:34.240 would bring out the darker side of santo trafficante jr

00:46:39.840 if santo could get lumia out of the picture then he could control all of tampa himself

00:46:45.360 on june 5th 1950 hitmen went after jimmy lumia he stopped his car to talk to some employees and

00:46:56.960 another car came up beside him and blew his head off the police suspected santo jr was behind the hit

00:47:05.280 but never had the evidence to charge him with lumia gone santo jr continued his rampage hunting down

00:47:14.480 italian italian italianos crew leaving a trail of bodies behind he was eliminating the family's

00:47:24.320 competition one by one and the police couldn't hang a charge on anyone that was the thing with uh with

00:47:31.920 these families though they would never catch the boss because they will the crime organizations weren't

00:47:39.440 like uh like myron said they weren't like a huge thing like no no many people knew about it and

00:47:45.760 because of rico myron had explained this like in other episodes yeah that's that's why they they

00:47:51.440 could get to like the fbi could get to aim like the boss of this of organizations like the main leaders

00:47:58.560 of these organizations that's why they never they always got away because if back then rico like will

00:48:04.400 have existed they will get them like like that because they will link like the crimes to them

00:48:09.840 until they get to them you know like the the main the main leader yeah but unfortunately they were

00:48:14.720 forced to only charge one guy at a time and they couldn't get them with like conspiracy charges etc and

00:48:19.440 the bosses most importantly were always insulated because they never actually were in like physically

00:48:24.960 involved in the crimes they just called the shots from up top so back then with this hits that uh with

00:48:29.920 this with this yeah with this kind of crimes they will only get like the person that killed the guy

00:48:35.600 right like only like the the the the murderer basically i mean if if they get if they get the

00:48:43.040 evidence yeah absolutely they can pin a murder on multiple people even if yeah yeah that's the only

00:48:48.640 guy that's going to jail yeah like for example john gotty guys right and watch the gambino one because

00:48:54.400 we talk about john gotty as well we have a whole episode on the chicago alpha and al capone before you

00:48:57.840 guys start commenting john gotty for example guys got hit for murder even though he wasn't the one

00:49:03.360 that killed the boss yeah it was because he was involved in planning because he set up the whole

00:49:07.840 thing and it was in furtherance of what la cosa nocia so that's why and that's how they're able to get

00:49:12.320 them and that's what ended up bringing gotty down was uh the organized crime slash rico laws as well

00:49:17.920 as the other guys as well in the mid 80s 1952 even with lumia dead and italiano out of town

00:49:27.360 their gang remained loyal and dedicated themselves to the war with traffic conti

00:49:34.640 but the mob killings were taking their toll on the public there's a lot more of a public outcry for

00:49:40.720 the police to do something so you see more of a concentrated effort to solve some of these murders

00:49:45.040 but none of them were ever conclusively solved still the violence continued

00:49:53.520 january 3rd 1953

00:49:55.840 at 7 25 one of santo's drivers picked him up after dinner at a relative's house

00:50:05.440 the mobster's sedan pulled away but another car was racing toward him without warning

00:50:13.360 a 12-gauge shotgun unloaded into santo's car

00:50:16.480 buckshot nicked traficante's arm he pushed open the car door and fell onto the street

00:50:27.840 the unknown gunman tore off leaving traficante for dead

00:50:33.520 traficante was grazed in the arm and went to the hospital and refused to tell investigators anything

00:50:38.240 no one took credit for the hit but rumors circulated that it was an act of revenge by

00:50:44.800 the family's hated rival charlie wall

00:50:50.640 wall the former dean of the underworld was later found brutally murdered in his home

00:50:58.000 i wonder why yeah charlie wall's death remains unsolved there was never any kind of conviction it

00:51:02.960 remains unsolved to this day wow while traficante ward on the streets of tampa his father 68 year

00:51:11.760 old santo senior had finally succumbed to stomach cancer this was back in 1954 guys his death certificate

00:51:20.240 said he was a simple cigar maker

00:51:24.400 cigar maker okay stop the cow his death wasn't really noted very much it was a small little article in the

00:51:31.120 paper and it was a more of a low-key kind of funeral which fit him because he was a very low-key mob boss

00:51:36.240 in fact there's very little if any public record of him surviving to this day

00:51:43.280 by now santo junior was ready to take his father's place you can see him really handing over a lot of

00:51:50.880 the operations to santo junior at the time and when he died in 1954 the mantle was officially passed to

00:51:56.960 santo junior junior then becomes the mafia chieftain of florida and the southern part of the united

00:52:02.480 states i mean it was just a natural progression santo was not a man given to a lot of grieving

00:52:08.320 it was business this was business and he had to move on and make his mark and he did

00:52:13.840 the other mob bosses in new york city and beyond knew he was the heir apparent

00:52:19.040 trafficante was viewed very well by most of the other mafia families around the country and he

00:52:26.000 definitely moved right into the position i think it was a pretty seamless transition and there did

00:52:31.280 not seem to be a lot of dissension in the ranks of the local family as well santo trafficante jr

00:52:39.280 had assumed his father's role he was the boss of tampa's criminal underworld

00:52:43.920 santo seemed untouchable that is until his name was connected to a high profile mob murder

00:53:02.560 in 1954 santo trafficante senior had died after a long bout with stomach cancer

00:53:09.760 his son santo jr took over his boss at the age of 39 and with the name trafficante santo did not have to

00:53:20.560 advertise in the 1950s santo jr was a critical link to gambling and drug rackets in havana cuba

00:53:40.000 trafficante was the perfect mob emissary bribing cuban dictator pulgencio batista to keep police clear

00:53:47.440 of mafia-run casinos in havana

00:53:52.080 then on october 24th 1957 the high profile new york mobster albert anastasia met with santo jr in new york

00:54:02.400 the mobs lured high executioner wanted part of trafficante's action in cuba trafficante was a

00:54:13.520 little leery of letting anastasia move in kind of viewed anastasia as being a little rough around 0.99

00:54:18.560 the edges and didn't really want any more competition down there he was trying to muscle his way into

00:54:24.400 vana and santo had a great thing going in vana they didn't want to mess that up

00:54:29.840 the next day anastasia got his hair cut at the barber shop in the park

00:54:34.000 go ahead this guy was just like al capone he was corrupting all the like the government absolutely

00:54:38.960 that's the cornerstone of la costa nostra influence the mayors of politicians etc and yeah al capone

00:54:44.080 had an even stronger grip he he control he got a mayor elected yeah like but this guy was controlling

00:54:50.000 the yeah i mean this guy i mean yeah but the thing is is that chicago is like a major city let's be

00:54:56.080 honest here tampa is not a major city right no no no i'm talking about cuba oh oh yes yes yes yeah yeah 0.97

00:55:01.920 yeah yeah another country yeah but cuba's corrupt as fuck like it's way more impressive 0.98

00:55:05.600 to get um you know politicians in america versus cubans like let's be honest no offense but it's 0.99

00:55:10.160 wild south america has been corrupt for literally decades hotel in midtown manhattan

00:55:18.080 the real interesting thing is that trafficante was staying at the park sheridan hotel in new york

00:55:23.200 under the alias of b hill and the morning he checked out about a couple hours later anastasia went to that

00:55:31.120 same hotel to get his weekly shave and while he was in the barber seat with a hot towel wrapped

00:55:35.360 around his face some gunmen came in and killed him wow i was like that there was widespread speculation

00:55:45.680 that new york mobsters were behind the hit

00:55:51.360 but santo jr remained a suspect and they tried to pin that on santo but they could never ever pin that on

00:55:57.840 him and there was no really tangible evidence that actually could link it to him in fact santo was

00:56:04.160 on a plane two hours before his murder going to havana wow how easy they can get away with this it's

00:56:11.840 crazy absolutely two years later in 1959 when santo trafficante jr traveled to cuba he found a much

00:56:22.080 different country than he remembered

00:56:29.040 cuba was in the midst of a revolution

00:56:33.200 fidel castro was poised to seize control from batista

00:56:38.560 you guys are going to see a major shift once fidel comes in

00:56:42.640 in the period before the cuban revolution i went to cuba in 2010 the country no i didn't know that

00:56:48.560 yeah i went to cuba in 2010 that explains why you hate their spanish so much it was

00:56:52.400 corrupt batista was a dictator and he was being paid off uh by the mob and the mob had all of the casinos

00:57:01.680 in havana and all of the allied services which would include prostitution 0.92

00:57:10.320 trafficante and his associates you know who else was involved in the casinos

00:57:14.640 in cuba mayor lansky who's mayor lansky

00:57:19.920 one of them boys one of them boys worried that castro might not be as easy to corrupt

00:57:25.440 the mob made 100 million dollars a year from cuban casinos alone

00:57:34.400 it was up to santo jr to keep the cuban rackets intact regardless of the revolution's outcome

00:57:40.640 and by the way just so you guys know if you love enjoy uh conspiracy theories or in this case it's

00:57:44.560 going to be conspiracy facts and you like to talk about you know them boys we're going to have

00:57:51.840 ryan dawson on who quite probably is the best biggest exposure of them boys on the internet 0.97

00:57:59.520 there's a reason why he got banned in 2006 we're talking about the shit that he talks about guys 0.85

00:58:03.840 but here's the thing he ain't lying it's all fact none of it is on some hatred type 0.88

00:58:09.680 shit it's all verifiable historical fact that no one wants to teach you guys 0.72

00:58:13.920 he placed bets on both sides what he did not only was he a batista supporter but he also 0.97

00:58:24.400 supported fidel castro he never thought that anything would ever end and and that was a mistake

00:58:30.240 on his part and the thing is with him is that all he cared about was the casino staying operating so he

00:58:35.760 basically put money in both their pockets so that he can go ahead and get allegiance because he looked

00:58:39.520 that like if either one wins i'm still in the uh in the running but you guys are going to see

00:58:44.000 he thought he could corrupt fidel that was his biggest mistake yep but you guys are going to see

00:58:48.800 how this backfires on him later trafficante supplied castro with guns and money with the understanding

00:58:57.040 that the mob's cuban casinos could remain

00:59:02.480 by the spring of 1959 castro had taken over the country completely and forced batista out 0.61

00:59:09.520 with batista gone he snaked him just like uh might as well call this guy abba castro because he

00:59:19.200 literally snaked this guy man crazy took the money took the support won the war kicked him out

00:59:27.680 mobsters tested castro hoping he would accept bribes as batista had for years

00:59:33.600 they would be disappointed castro became a communist dictator and evicted some of the same mobsters that

00:59:46.880 had supported him in his rise to power came to power in january 1959 he was clearly moving um cuba in a

00:59:57.120 leftward direction uh causing considerable concern in the united states and and why did he get rid of

01:00:03.040 the casinos guys because casinos are literally the embodiment of capitalism you understand you're

01:00:10.480 basically right taking people's hard-earned money putting them in a position where they're gambling it

01:00:16.080 away under the guise of capitalism and that's not what fidel castro wanted and fidel castro hated the

01:00:22.320 west he hated capitalism so for him to allow you know mobsters to run casinos in his country

01:00:28.480 nah yeah that's the huge problem for a communist capitalism yeah you know what i mean like fidel

01:00:35.040 was obviously corrupt too don't don't make no mistake about it just because he wasn't bright didn't mean

01:00:38.560 that he wasn't corrupt it's just that he didn't want to be corrupted by americans that's the key

01:00:43.920 distinction my friends this video this video is not yeah they're missing some stuff i'm never coming

01:00:51.280 back to my country this video guys just so y'all know we're kind of touching the surface here with

01:00:56.240 the intelligence agencies we're starting to kind of crack into it but we're going to go way deeper dive

01:01:00.160 on this when we bring dawson on with fidel cash for the cia the trafficantes and the mafia he had also

01:01:06.640 and jfk and them boys it's all connected guys so uh taking various steps against the mob

01:01:13.680 controlled casinos in havana which was making the mob very unhappy i think pretty soon the mob

01:01:20.320 realized they weren't going to get what they bargained for by giving him money giving him guns

01:01:24.080 giving him jeeps he i mean on paper right it seemed like the smart thing to do support both sides and

01:01:30.160 you know just see who wins but he should have just went in all in on batista and ensured that batista won

01:01:36.160 you know but obviously it's easy to say that you know 20 20 hindsight but he wouldn't know he

01:01:39.840 wouldn't have known that exactly he's a businessman yeah he's a businessman so he's looking at it like

01:01:43.520 i don't care who wins i'm help both you out and hopefully you guys will honor this deal but

01:01:48.240 it's better to deal with the devil you know than the devil you don't closed all the casinos and kicked

01:01:53.040 a lot of the gangsters out on june 9th 1959 two weeks before the wedding of santo jr's daughter in

01:02:02.320 havana cuban authorities arrested the mobster fidel's police came and knocked on the door one night and

01:02:10.320 um ransacked his uh his apartment and um hauled him off to jail the police slapped him with vague

01:02:19.200 charges and detained him the news sent shock waves through the underworld santo was actually detained

01:02:29.280 and they were not letting him go i mean he was he was actually on the list for the firing squad castro

01:02:35.760 bro imagine that you're in a cuban jail you went from making you know in billions by american dollars

01:02:42.880 today to being in a cuban jail ready to get executed by a firing squad based off of a dude that you had 0.97

01:02:50.880 supported and given a bunch of money to to help them get into fucking power and now he's responsible for 0.86

01:02:57.040 you possibly dying let's see how he gets out of this one i can tell you something if the prison is 0.94

01:03:03.120 just like cuba it must be horrible must be horrible because the the oh my god i i can't remember the

01:03:10.400 country was a shocking thing for me because it's like it's stuck in the 50s cuba yeah well i haven't

01:03:16.400 been there recently i mean i've never been to q i have no reason the architecture like everything

01:03:21.520 in the streets everything is like it's talking the past it's it's insane it's like a whole museum

01:03:27.040 like the whole country i will say this though i know people know this cuba has some of the best

01:03:31.920 doctors in the world you know that yes like i i didn't know that we've been criticized by by saying

01:03:38.560 this in the past with the anamontes video because it once then he had like the best uh health um

01:03:46.080 how do you say this like the best some of the best health care yes in the world health care that's

01:03:50.640 the word so uh and that's something a lot of people don't know but yeah the conditions might

01:03:55.840 not be like the same as he said be like before but it's still like cuba is known for being like

01:04:02.800 for having like the best health care in at least in south america yeah so for all their communist boy 0.99

01:04:08.800 bs listed did one thing right they have good health care you know and i'm not poor country damn near

01:04:14.080 third world but first world uh medical um care those new regime ordered hundreds of executions 1.00

01:04:24.240 damn and it was free so i mean first world you know what i mean i know some cubans that actually

01:04:30.400 that don't have insurance the united states that have dual citizenship they go back to cuba to get 0.98

01:04:34.560 their medical procedures done yeah so traficante's days appeared to be numbered

01:04:49.760 in 1959 fidel castro led a revolution against cuban dictator fulgencio batista

01:05:04.160 they were all the ones in power castro turned on the same american mobster that had backed his revolt

01:05:10.400 without because castro hated the united states but warning he grabbed santo traficante jr and threw

01:05:20.160 him in prison it was never really clear there were no charges there were no formal charges you guys

01:05:26.000 are wondering like what the hell how'd they grab him at the time guys he had a like a house in cuba

01:05:31.200 because obviously he spent a good amount of time there running the casinos so he thought it was still

01:05:35.440 safe because he had oh he ain't gonna come after me i support him financially yeah he's kicking us out of

01:05:39.760 casino wise so but when um cuban police and military came and picked them up he was shocked he didn't

01:05:45.840 see that coming or anything like that santo's wife josephine wanted her husband to attend their

01:05:52.320 daughter's wedding in havana but he was locked up in an act of desperation she reached out to cuban

01:06:03.280 authorities josephine was from a very well connected family politically and commercially in florida 1.00

01:06:10.000 josephine somehow got in touch with the mystery of justice and persuaded them to let him have a

01:06:15.600 furlough to actually go and attend his daughter's wedding and in fact they actually let him attend his

01:06:20.800 daughter's wedding but as soon as the wedding ended he was rushed right back to the detention center

01:06:26.000 for the time being traficante was trapped cash was such a humanitarian yeah right yeah

01:06:33.760 traficante's attorney contacted castro's government

01:06:41.840 hoping to spring santo jr

01:06:46.240 cuba eventually released and deported the mobster just so you guys know jack ruby okay who uh short for

01:06:55.920 rubenstein now you're gonna go further there yeah went back and forth between the united states and

01:07:03.200 cuba on behalf of uh traficante's lawyer guys to facilitate him getting out more than likely what

01:07:11.520 happened was he was going back and forth to pay money and they were able to bribe their way and get

01:07:15.760 traffic content out of it and then who's jack ruby that's the guy who shot larry uh oswald and who

01:07:23.360 was oswald the guy who allegedly right by himself shot kennedy hmm yeah like let me let me get this straight

01:07:32.640 so you're telling me the guy that killed kennedy ended up getting killed who was linked to the cia

01:07:38.880 was killed by a dude named jack rubenstein who was responsible for forgetting traficante out of

01:07:45.280 prison when fidel cashel was in hold on do you believe in coincidences angie

01:07:51.840 hmm yeah stay tuned for our episode with dawson where we break down this angle a lot more guys but

01:07:58.560 see where i'm going here with this there's a reason why they're not covering that part on youtube and not

01:08:02.000 telling you how he got out they're only telling you that he got out there's a huge theory about this

01:08:06.560 yes yeah it's coming he returned home to tampa dejected leaving his casinos behind yeah he was

01:08:14.240 like yikes yeah trev conte lost the cuba casinos i mean he took a lot of money out of cuba before he

01:08:19.520 left but he also lost a lot of investment let's see how deep they get in with this as far as targeting

01:08:33.200 uh fidel with the loss of havana mobsters needed a new spot to rebuild their gambling empires 1.00

01:08:43.520 they picked las vegas nevada and there you go guys of course they did they don't teach others in

01:08:49.840 history that fidel castro was indirectly responsible for the creation and explosion of las vegas yeah

01:08:58.560 fidel forgot rid of all the casinos in cuba all of them yep ow yeah this is like actually a little

01:09:07.360 you know golden nugget yeah yeah you definitely like bro so had fidel not taken leadership in cuba guys

01:09:17.440 cuba would still probably be one of the biggest places to gamble in the world but since castro took

01:09:23.120 office they had to do what create a casino place elsewhere hence the birth of las vegas guys so

01:09:29.440 a little fun fact if you're ever hanging out with friends whatever you can tell them hey do you know

01:09:32.720 that fidel castro indirectly created las vegas and you guys could break it down why

01:09:39.760 santo jr had enjoyed running the cuban casinos

01:09:43.760 but was hesitant to invest in an operation within the united states i think really by the time traffic

01:09:49.920 condi finally realized hey maybe i should get into vegas it might have been too late

01:09:56.240 the documentary is just saying why but i explained it to you guys earlier too many rules and regulations

01:10:00.880 and their bottom line wasn't as big after all you know the payments were done cuba they were making

01:10:06.240 money hand over fist la it's not la vegas you can still make money but you got to deal with american

01:10:12.000 regulations etc and here's the thing you don't want to run a legitimate business like that in the

01:10:16.960 united states when people know that you're a mobster in cuba he was able to act and operate

01:10:22.880 in a way where he would never be what a great way to make money back then absolutely at the time he

01:10:28.160 felt it would be wiser to build another casino empire somewhere in the caribbean

01:10:35.520 over the next few years especially through the mid-60s you see him sending emissaries to ecuador

01:10:41.280 to the bahamas the virgin islands to venezuela all throughout central south america and the caribbean

01:10:48.400 to open up casino operations there none of them ever really panned out the way he wanted to

01:10:57.280 while traffic they weren't close enough to united states to be as effective like cuba

01:11:01.120 conti searched for a way cuba bro you guys realize like if you take a plane from the united states you

01:11:06.400 could be in cuba in like 30 minutes yeah maybe less maybe even less it's only like what 50 60 miles

01:11:11.920 from the i'm gonna search right now yeah it's literally like well actually right there a little

01:11:16.320 fun fact um because of fidel castro did this to cuba he got rid of all the casinos um his bigger

01:11:24.400 copycat which was like the the like the biggest mistake venezuela could ever had as a president uh ugo

01:11:31.600 chavez my dad's gonna hate me for the same saying this and this is this is a little bit too political

01:11:36.960 but he also did the exact same thing he got rid of all the casinos in venezuela so

01:11:42.400 in the early flight is saying one hour 20 the early 2000s hello mid 2000s it says

01:11:50.080 an hour 11 minutes i thought it would be shorter because it's only how many miles is cuba an hour and

01:11:55.680 20 minutes that's what they're saying but it's not non-stop i think so yeah it's non-stop it says

01:12:01.280 non-stop flight yeah two hours almost two hours in miles hold on one sec guys i kind of want to

01:12:07.200 i kind of want to know how how long it is like in the in the canopies the thing that the people take

01:12:12.320 to get here by by sea do you know oh uh it's like three days when people like come into the united

01:12:20.080 states illegally and stuff yeah it's like three days today uh yeah yeah depending on the boat that

01:12:24.880 they use 330 miles this would be miami and cuba is 330 miles so not that far guys all right let's get

01:12:31.760 back to it it's casino business america was entrenched in the cold war

01:12:42.000 the cia considered castro a threat having a commune you guys want to learn more about russian

01:12:48.160 intelligence we did two different episodes on russian intelligence robert hanson and uh

01:12:52.480 fuck i forget the guy's name but he was the highest ranking cia officer that was giving secrets to the 0.84

01:12:56.240 russians go look at our national security slash espionage playlist guys and we got more on the 0.98

01:13:00.880 counterintelligence russian angle if you're interested in that type of stuff you should do the russian mafia

01:13:05.040 too we will we will definitely this country 90 miles off the coast of florida presented a clear and

01:13:11.920 present danger to the united states cia because cuba was a threat well cuba the reason why is because

01:13:21.280 cuba guys um is an ally with russia and also just so y'all know uh hey guys go watch our anna montez

01:13:26.800 episode where we break this down cuba what they specialize in is stealing in american secrets and

01:13:31.520 then selling it to our enemies since they're so close cuba is actually one of our biggest

01:13:35.520 counterintelligence threats in the world guys cuba china um russia russians uh them boys as well

01:13:43.280 which no one will ever admit that but the massad are ruthless uh but yeah operative robert mayhew

01:13:50.560 set up a meeting with traficante

01:13:54.160 he told the tampa mobster hold up you're telling me a cia

01:13:57.520 cia operative robert mayhew set up a meeting with traficante

01:14:11.360 he told the tampa mobster that he wanted him to use his cuban contacts to assassinate castro

01:14:19.200 he was recruited by bob mayhew to actually deal with cubans because he knew the cubans

01:14:24.640 traficante was inevitably the key figure because he was the one who lived and worked in havana and

01:14:29.360 knew all these cuban political figures who might be able to help santo could get in and have someone

01:14:36.800 placed close to fidel castro if they actually wanted to commit a hit on him traficante told the cia that

01:14:44.080 he would go along with the plot but in reality the gangster never intended to carry out the hit

01:14:50.880 the funny thing about this is that santo saw an opportunity to make money and he basically told

01:14:57.680 the cia and all the agents whatever they wanted to hear in fact they gave him these secret pills if

01:15:03.520 you would put in in fidel castro's drink that somehow it'd react and you know it'd kill him

01:15:08.320 on the spot or whatever the case may be just y'all know the cia tried to kill fidel castro hundreds 0.93

01:15:12.080 of times i'm going to look it up it's some insane number santo flushes down the toilet

01:15:15.840 the agency believed that the persons to do the assassination would be the mob which absolutely

01:15:23.360 demonstrated that they hadn't the slightest idea what them castro survived over 600 assassination

01:15:29.920 attempts as well as attempt to end his political career in other ways guys i want to i want to

01:15:34.080 600 man the cia over 600 that's insane i want to say something like even one one of them like had to

01:15:42.560 see it and i know you guys were gonna say you know what nobody cares about venezuela history but

01:15:47.760 this is very fortunate like it's very it's too linked like cuban venezuela is still linked to

01:15:52.080 this story and even if one of those attempts had to see like venezuela wouldn't have been like what

01:15:57.840 is today i wouldn't be here just saying that i might not go back ever because of saying this

01:16:03.920 and my dad might hate me forever she's about to get executed but they're gonna give her the firing 1.00

01:16:07.440 squad after she gets back definitely bob was they're not hired assassins you can't go down to 0.97

01:16:15.680 carlos venezuela i'd like to kill my wife here's ten thousand dollars and he takes care of it the 1.00

01:16:21.440 killings that take place in the mob are business killings and nobody's paid you're expected to do it 0.96

01:16:28.000 as part of your your job still trafficanti played along with the cia's plan

01:16:36.560 it was a quick way to make some easy cash he was just taking money from the agency and

01:16:43.120 and laughing all the way to the bank i think they paid him something like a hundred thousand dollars

01:16:47.840 or something like that to do this trafficanti which isn't even that much money but remember

01:16:51.760 he had just lost a bunch of money with the casinos in cuba no qualms about swindling the u.s

01:16:56.960 government some even believed that he was working with castro as a double agent wow there have been

01:17:04.880 many rumors about him working both sides of the street and you got to believe that there's some

01:17:10.880 information exchanging hands through all of this some speculation changing hands if nothing else

01:17:18.560 in the months ahead speculation of a more serious nature would surround trafficanti

01:17:23.600 as a devastating tragedy shock the nation

01:17:31.280 oh no

01:17:39.680 november 22nd 1963

01:17:44.800 as the sun shone in dallas texas up here we go

01:17:48.160 a lone gunman named lee harvey oswald opened fire and killed 46 year old president john f kennedy

01:18:00.560 and to this day they still say that there was only one shooter

01:18:06.400 tune in to episode that we do it right yeah i know i know yeah we're on youtube so

01:18:11.040 just tune in when we have ryan dawson to talk about this guys

01:18:17.280 almost as soon as the last reports faded from oswald's rifle

01:18:22.000 conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination surfaced

01:18:27.840 one persistent though never substantiated rumor alleges that santo traficante jr was a major player

01:18:35.920 this theory is rooted in events that began two years earlier

01:18:45.360 1961

01:18:48.560 in washington dc attorney general robert f kennedy made it his mission to decimate organized crime in america

01:18:55.760 there are a number of different areas where action is needed in the field of organized crime i think it's a very serious situation

01:19:08.160 robert kennedy's priorities were to convict and incarcerate as many leading

01:19:14.560 mobsters as he could by any possible means he turned this into his own personal crusade

01:19:21.280 kennedy targeted the mob's corruption of unions jimmy hoffa the president of the teamsters union

01:19:30.160 didn't appreciate kennedy's scrutiny

01:19:35.760 neither did tampa mobster santo traficante jr

01:19:40.080 traffic county complaining about kennedy and remarked mark my words this man's trouble and he will get what's

01:19:45.440 coming to him at the time attorney frank regano represented hoffa traficante and new orleans mob boss

01:19:53.440 that was the lawyer that i told you guys before that was instrumental in getting him out through

01:19:57.280 rubenstein who was the guy that shot larry uh uh oswald carlos marcello

01:20:05.520 hoffa marcello and traficante all wanted the bobby kennedy problem to go away

01:20:11.760 but removing the attorney general wouldn't end their troubles at this juncture one expert suggests 0.95

01:20:20.400 the focus shifted to the president you had to kill the president because if you chop the tail off 0.99

01:20:28.560 robert kennedy the dog would still be alive and would bite you but if you chop the head off 0.99

01:20:34.960 everything's gone okay yeah if they had just went over it went to the attorney general guys kenny would

01:20:40.640 have used the full force of the american government to go after him but if you get rid of the president

01:20:45.760 yeah it's going to be a discombobulated organization for a bit where they're trying

01:20:49.520 to get a new president in etc and the attorney general isn't going to have the same amount of

01:20:53.200 power as a president for obvious reasons according to this theory hoffa delivered a deadly message

01:20:58.480 to marcello and traficante through regano

01:21:02.000 hoffa called him aside and told him to tell them that the time had come to assassinate john f kennedy

01:21:12.240 and he delivered that message and the much to his surprise instead of bursting out laughing

01:21:17.280 marcello and traficante simply gave each other a very long rather cold look

01:21:25.920 guys that's the power of the mob they were able to be involved in the assassination of a president of

01:21:30.480 of course they didn't do it themselves there was a certain intelligence agency

01:21:34.960 and them boys that were involved uh but you know what time it is we talked about this actually

01:21:40.960 extensively with uh nick fuentes last night on sneaker stream if you guys want to go into the kenny

01:21:46.240 assassination but yeah crazy show we're going to break this down in more detail with ryan dawson in the future

01:21:50.880 1963. as this theory plays out traficante contacted a man he had met in havana prison

01:22:07.360 lauren hall hall hall in turn got in touch with lee harvey oswald the man who would pull the trigger in

01:22:14.880 dallas

01:22:30.560 on the night of november 22nd as the rest of the country mourned

01:22:34.880 santo traficante jr had dinner with frank ragano in tampa the two men raised their glasses and

01:22:45.440 toasted the death of president kennedy it was a moment frank ragano never forgot

01:22:51.520 i think these guys were on some demon time that was really when i really crossed it when i started

01:22:59.120 in thinking about it and here i am celebrating the death of the president and this lawyer ended up

01:23:05.040 getting indebted by the irs guys on two different occasions if i'm not mistaken for wire uh or no

01:23:09.920 tax evasion you know that i realized and i became cognizant of the fact that i had crossed that line

01:23:15.360 my mom witnessed that she actually got up and left and they she couldn't believe what was happening

01:23:21.680 before her eyes and they have these two people everyone in the united states is mourning and these

01:23:25.680 two people are in there toasting the assassination of the president of the united states that same day

01:23:32.240 chris ragano says his father had received a call from his other client jimmy hoffa

01:23:38.800 all the secretaries everyone's weeping in my father's office and apparently one of the secretaries

01:23:43.280 tells my father mr hoff is on the phone my father goes into his his office takes the phone call and 1.00

01:23:48.720 jimmy's on the other end saying did you hear the good news they killed the son of a bitch 1.00

01:23:54.160 trafficante's old cellmate lauren hall later got a phone call at home from a reporter for the national 0.99

01:24:00.640 inquirer hall was apparently drunk and uh he was very abusive toward the reporter and he was more or

01:24:07.600 less refusing to say anything and then finally suddenly hall declares listen the only two people

01:24:14.560 left alive who still know anything are me and santo trafficante and as far as i'm concerned i'm going

01:24:19.680 to stay alive so i'm not going to say in the end the warren commission could not establish any link

01:24:27.520 between kennedy's death and the warren commission guys was the investigating body into kennedy's death

01:24:32.480 which kind of gave a excuse for why he was killed but yeah you know what time it is

01:24:40.960 and trafficante or anyone other than lee harvey oswald the commission concluded that oswald acted alone

01:24:50.480 stop the county was never charged with anything related to the assassination

01:25:00.560 but even to this day rumors persist about the role santo trafficante and the mob

01:25:07.120 might have played in the events of november 22nd

01:25:09.760 i definitely believe that trafficante was deeply involved in the assassination gave the go-ahead for

01:25:18.080 the assassination if there were any truth to the rumors that truth would go to the grave with trafficante

01:25:28.960 decades later in 1981 the federal government finally found a charge that would stick

01:25:36.160 to santo trafficante jr racketeering the government felt that it had enough evidence

01:25:43.680 now the rico laws are finally in play that's against santo to charge him santo jr needed the help of a

01:25:51.200 good lawyer his longtime attorney frank bragano had spent years trying to distance his practice from

01:25:58.080 clients like trafficante but santo jr funny story his attorney when he got indicted trafficante actually

01:26:05.520 left him out to drive but they had so much history together watch what the lawyer does could be very

01:26:10.880 convincing the santo came to my father's office and said look if you don't represent me your son won't

01:26:18.240 make it and he's referring to me

01:26:19.680 there you go that's how the mafia moves took the case but santo jr's health issues were overwhelming

01:26:29.840 and delayed his trial he was by now an old man his health was failing he had kidney problems

01:26:36.160 he had intestinal surgery he had a bad heart i mean the list just goes on and on he was failing quickly

01:26:41.840 in march of 1987 santo checked into a houston hospital for a heart bypass the 72 year old

01:26:53.920 didn't survive the surgery the operation was a success he just never woke up from the anesthesia

01:27:00.480 he he died um after they'd sewn him back up again

01:27:04.480 santo travacanti senior and junior remain the most elusive father-son duo in mafia history

01:27:15.680 somehow despite involvement in racketeering and murder they managed to avoid spending a

01:27:21.440 single night in an american jail it was santo senior's greatest gift to his son

01:27:28.080 he was so good at keeping under the radar because he wasn't like your typical thugs from the north he

01:27:36.560 wasn't you know the goddies that would you know be out in the street and you eat cannolis or whatever 0.95

01:27:41.360 the case be doing that kind of stuff these weren't the type of guys that were doing that he was in

01:27:44.560 essence the silent dot absolutely and just so you guys know they didn't really effectively link him to

01:27:50.400 the mafia until they had that raid in new york as you guys know that we talked about in other episodes

01:27:55.280 back uh um and upstate new york when everyone from the commission met up uh but guys there you have

01:28:00.400 it um angie any last words oh really i mean this was entertaining i really like this documentary yeah

01:28:07.440 well done it covers like a lot it covers it even came into the conspiracy stuff but it didn't go all

01:28:12.800 the way for obvious reasons right obviously but um but yeah guys um hope you guys enjoyed that

01:28:17.840 we'll catch you all in the next episode of fed reacts peace you guys can see the sun coming up too

01:28:22.000 yeah so we're going to sleep you guys take it easy later

The Debrief With MyronGainesX - June 02, 2023

Fed Explains The Most Powerful Italian Mafia In FL： The Trafficantes

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