Kefauver Part 1-A: testimony of Lt. Charles A. Marvin, former Tampa police officer (29 December 1950)

A former Tampa patrolman repeats street talk that Santo Trafficante, Jr. would head the gambling syndicate and that Santo Trafficante, Sr. had 'supposedly or allegedly' been head of the Mafia in Tampa for twenty years. By his own account the statements are rumor. Pp. 137-150.

Date

1950-12-29

Kind

hearing

Source

U.S. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, via Internet Archive

Retrieved

2026-10-12

Rights

A hearing print of the United States Senate, published by the Government Printing Office. A work of the United States Congress, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The Internet Archive item marks it not in copyright.

Lt. Charles A. Marvin, U.S. Army Air Force and a Tampa police patrolman and vice-squad officer from July 1947 to October 1950, testified on 29 December 1950 (pp. 137-150 of Part 1-A). He described the bolita bankers he understood to be operating in Tampa and the arrest of George Toledo, and introduced Exhibit 10, slips of paper with names of alleged bolita peddlers.

At p. 146, asked about a Tampa syndicate, he said the talk was that it would be headed by Santo Trafficante, Jr., with George Toledo and Angel Daniels as assistants, and described it as “Only what talk I heard on the street - rumor.” At p. 147, asked about the Mafia, he said he had heard Latin residents say that Santo Trafficante, Sr. had “supposedly or allegedly” been the head of the Mafia in Tampa for the past twenty years, and that he knew of no other members. On the murders he called what he knew “just hearsay talk.”

This page records those statements as secondhand. They are not a finding about either man, and the witness does not claim personal knowledge of any organization.