Ignacio Antinori
Ignacio Antinori (born February 17, 1885 , † October 23, 1940 ) was an Italian-American mobster who was one of the first to smuggle drugs to Florida on a large scale . He was considered the first boss of the Tampa family, which later became known as the Trafficante family within the American Cosa Nostra .
Life
At the age of 18, Antinori immigrated to the United States from Sicily with his family . From 1925 he organized his own criminal gangs and became one of the most important heroin dealers in Florida in the 1930s . He had close ties with Corsican liaison officers who smuggled the heroin into Tampa via Marseille and Cuba . According to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics , the drugs were shipped from there to the Midwest ; essentially about St. Louis . The mobsters Thomas Buffa , Nicolo Impostato , James DeSimone and Joseph Deluca were involved.
Together with the mobster Santo Trafficante, Sr. he operated games of chance called Bolita games . Santo Trafficante, Sr., however, developed a competing drug ring in parallel and worked closely with the boss of the Gambino family Vincent Mangano and Joseph Profaci of New York City .
Between 1930 and 1940, Antinori found himself in a long-term feud with Charlie Wall, who was also a well-known figure in Florida in organized crime .
Ignacio Antinori also did not have the support of the Commission , the highest mafia council in the USA. The Commission feared that Antinori's smuggling activities would draw too much attention to the organization as a whole.
On October 23, 1940, Antinori was shot dead at the Palm Garden Inn in Tampa. The client could have been the Chicago outfit , which is said to have been annoyed about a drug delivery of inferior quality by Antinori. Charlie Wall would also be a possible perpetrator, but he himself was brutally murdered in 1955. This murder on Wall could have been an act of revenge by Santo Trafficantes, Sr. for the murder of Antinori; Trafficante himself had completely taken over Antinori's business.
literature
- Sifakis, Carl The Mafia Encyclopedia . New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3
- Deiche, Scott M. Cigar City Mafia - A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld , Barricade Books Inc., June 30, 2005, ISBN 978-1-56980-287-8
Web links
- americanmafia.com The KC / Tampa Drug Connection by Scott M. Deitche on americanmafia.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.hillsboroughcountycemeteries.com/la-unione/book1.htm Tampa Italian club - mobster birth and death references
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| none | Head of the " Trafficante family " of the Mafia 1925 - 1940 |
Santo Trafficante, Sr. |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Antinori, Ignacio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mafioso |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1885 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1940 |