The Tampa, Florida crime family: the Trafficante. Almost the model for the efficient,
low-key borgata. With a dearth of meaningful convictions and turncoats, the family
under the Trafficantes was practically impenetrable. Junior inherited his fathers
kingdom and expanded it, maintaining his links to the old-school until he was the
last of it. He lived a lifetime of crime with minimal penalty.

Anyway, Santo Jr dies in '87, and apparently his brother is not leadership material:
Henry, perhaps the most active of the Trafficante brothers besides Santo Jr, remains
a side-walk soldier. Even Daddy Frank Diecedue, Santo's underboss and the most obvious
choice is looked over, instead, Junior supposedly selects his driver and protege, one
Vincent LoScalzo. And... the family died. Now, this LoScalzo is either barely
active or extremely cautious, for he himself has only served probation and has no
major convictions. Investigations into the Gambino family have uncovered transplanted
mobsters operating in what had been considered Trafficante territory, and John Gotti Jr's
forays into Florida are well known. A remnant of Santo's links to Carlo Gambino himself?
If there still is an official Trafficante family, alledgedly run by one Vincent LoScalzo,
active in Florida, as a seperate entity to the Gambino family, it is extremely small
and/or closely guarded.

Anyway, for one reason or another Santo's brothers remained at relatively low ranks in
the organization (Henry was made, as was a Santo Trafficante III, but Epifano, the
youngest, remained an assosciate) I guess none of them inherited the leadership skills
shared by Santo Sr and Jr? Scott Deitch mentions in Cigar City Mafia an incident
suffered by Henry "The Man", where over-zealous officers ejected him from a night-spot,
only by literally carrying him out, using his head to open the heavy doors. As Deitch
goes on to say, one simply cant imagine Santo Jr being treated in such a manner.

Perhaps this incident says it all? After all, a don is not treated like that. I suppose
he simply didnt inspire the respect his brother did. And in fact, he retired shortly
after being passed over after his brothers death. Unless Santo Trafficante III
(the third, either a great nephew or grandson of Santo Jr) is still active,
the Trafficante family, sanguinary, is no longer so linked to the Tampa underworld: maybe
that was Santo Jr's true intentions.