Carlo Tramonti

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Carlo Tramonti
Biographical information
Gender	Male
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Black (later white)
Family	Tramonti
Title(s)	Don

Carlo Tramonti was the Don of the New Orleans syndicate. He had a special seat on the Commission , which allowed to him to remain absent from some Commission meetings, due to the fact that his organization was the oldest in America.

[edit] Biography

Carlo Tramonti made his fortune from gambling, and with ferocity. Carlo had emigrated from Sicily as a young boy and settled in New Orleans. He exterminated the people who were backed by police and owned gambling operations from there. He was the one who opened ties with Cuba and Fulgencio Batista , supplying him with gambling and whorehouses.

By the 1950s, he owned a very luxurious Miami beach hotel. He also owned almost every business in New Orleans and rural Louisiana. He got his nickname, "The Whale," by swallowing up every business that came his way. He was also a reputed womanizer and had many children out of wedlock. He and his brother and underboss, Agostino "Augie" Tramonti , had established the Tramonti family as a force to be reckoned with.

[edit] Conspiracy

By 1963, something happened to Tramonti that would change the course of American history forever. He was arrested by immigration agents at the behest of attorney general Daniel Shea, and deported to Columbia (which is what his fake passport said), he was left there by authorities with no money or connections, He was publicly embarrassed by Shea, and wanted revenge, but the Commission refused to allow his decision and he left in anger, after failing to deface Michael Corleone's image.

Later, he conspired with Nick Geraci to kill President Shea. By 1964, he sent Juan Carlos Santiago, an assassin, to kill President Shea which he did successfully. In 1968, he was called to an investigation committee about the president's assassination. He was shot twice in the head in his car and had a meat cleaver pulled up his gut, presumably by members of the Corleone Family, who had recognised Santiago as a former contact of Tramonti's.

His position in the Commission was later filled by Albert Volpe. As Don of the Tramonti Family, he was briefly succeeded by his younger brother Agostino, but he died not soon after his brother of natural causes, though it is implied it may have been murder.