Mob lawyer Frank Ragano confessed to delivering Hoffa's contract on JFK to Carlos Marcello and Santo Trafficante

In 1978, I rejected Ragano's $250,000 offer to buy the rights to my book, "The Hoffa Wars," in which I alleged that Hoffa, Marcello, and Trafficante engineered the President's murder

(l-r) Carlos Marcello dines while Santo Trafficante and Frank Ragano toast at La Stella (AP Wirephoto, 1966)

Frank Ragano—Overview

In 1954, Frank Ragano, a young attorney in Tampa, started doing legal work for local underworld boss Santo Trafficante, who was also the most powerful Mafia leader in Cuba with interests in numerous Havana casinos.

When Traffic…