The Prehistory of Mafia Galveston
The Maceos were not the first -- just the best. But "Downtown Gang" honcho "Johnny Jack" Nounes was far more fun.
Just as Jean Lafitte was not the first pirate to set up in Galveston, neither were the Maceo Brothers its original gangsters. The organization of rackets and vice-related crime had long preceded the arrival of these of the Sicilian-born, Louisiana-seasoned Maceos in the form of two rival factions that came to be known as the “Downtown Gang” and the “Bea…
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