George Musey

George Musey, also known as onearmed George Musey was an associate mob boss in Galveston, Texas during the 1920s and early 1930s. He, with the Beau Brummel of Galveston Johnny Jack Nounes led the Downtown Gang, one of the two gangs which controlled Galveston underworld until the early 1930s. George was the gangs top enforcer and would not let anyone ruin the rise of the Downtown Gang. Bootlegging was his specialty, therefore, when the law would arrive to seize to illegal hooch, Musey always managed to escape. However, he would be convicted on conspiracy liquor charges and sent to Atlanta Penitentiary. George would go on to head the gang as Johnnys absence was in affect do to his prison terms. He was the only righthand man to gang boss Johnny Jack Nounes and he was the best acting boss the gang ever had. He would later be assassinated in 1935, eight days after his 35th birthday.

George Musey was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana to Jamial and Sally Musey, both immigrants from Syria. His parents immigrated to the United States around 1890 and has a total of five children. Their names were Tom, George, Emma, Fred, and Sam. Fred and Sam would go on to assist their brother in his crime life. The family moved over to Houston, Texas in the 1910s and later over the Galveston. During Georges early life he worked as a mechanic in an auto shop his dad managed. With him being in Texas is how his life would forever change from being a small time mechanic, to a big time gangster. As Prohibition in the United States of America talks were circulating George probably wanted to get out of the rough life he was living, and so he came across a flamboyant gang boss by the name of Johnny Jack Nounes. Johnny Jack has been the boss of the Downtown Gang long before prohibition came up and developed a liking to George. From that time on George became Johnnys righthand man, an associate

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