Talk:Charlie Wall

Close paraphrase
The phrasing of much of this article is closely paraphrased from http://www.cigarcitymagazine.com/people/item/who-killed-charlie-wall. It should be re-written to avoid being deleted as a copyright infringement. ... disco spinster   talk  18:12, 19 June 2011 (UTC)


 * I agree, and will work on fixing the issue and adding additional sources as time allows. Wall was a very notable and interesting figure who should have had his own wiki-article long ago - please nobody get an itchy delete finger... Zeng8r (talk) 03:06, 24 July 2011 (UTC)


 * This might as well have been cut-pasted from the above article; that would have saved someone considerable trouble. Hushpuckena (talk) 16:19, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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Career Highlights
As a teenager shot his stepmother with a shotgun and ran away from home after his father died. Always lived on the wrong side of the law, had a drug addiction, and early promoted the bollita lottery games in Tampa among the poor Cuban cigar workers and rigged the games with frozen or weighted balls. Was responsible for most of the organized crime in Tampa in the 1910's and 1920's which earned Tampa the name of the "wickedest city in the USA". Was the "fixer" of all elections in the city of Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida in the 1930's and had all of the police and judges in his back-pocket. Was the cause of Hillsborough County getting mechanical voting machines due to his fixing of elections which had caused an outroar because it was obvious to the public that votes were not counted correctly in the elections. It was known that if you wanted to get elected to any public office in Tampa Bay, you had to go through him. He traveled to Key West at least twice over the years, probably for organized crime conclaves. Testified in Senator Estes Kefauver's Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime after he was given immunity. In his 50-year crime career, he never spent a day in jail. He appeared to always have advice of a competent legal counsel when he was suspected of a crime. His foremost associates in crime, Evaristo Rubio known as Tito, and Eddie Virella, were murdered in turf wars in 1938 and 1937 respectively. The Sicilian mob ran him out of business in Tampa in 1940 and he eventually moved to Miami and tried to develop illegal gambling operations there but the authorities indicted him and closed down his Miami operations and he moved back to Tampa where he lived supposedly uneventfully until he was murdered by someone he knew in April of 1955, whom he had let in his house: he was hit with a baseball bat, shot twice in the head with a gun, had his throat slashed from ear to ear with a knife and supposedly chocked also, as evidence of the choker was found at the scene. Fortunately his wife was out of town at the time but came home the next day and discovered his body. His murder has never been solved and no one was particularly grieved at his death as he was described as a nasty old drunk who went around town to bars bad mouthing the new mob boys on the block. He was related by blood to some of the prominent business and legal families in the Tampa Bay Area, but they never had anything to do with him officially, although their businesses were never effected by his extensive criminal operations. His murder is just one of over a dozen unsolved mob murders from the early days of Tampa. 97.76.210.2 (talk) 16:53, 25 September 2015 (UTC) References: Tampa newspaper archives, magazine articles, police reports, several published books such as Cigar City Mafia and histories of Ybor City, scrapbooks.

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