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Macheca was born and raised in the Italian-American community of New Orleans and started his own gang there in the 1860s. The Macheca Mob was not a Mafia group when it began. In fact, it thwarted early efforts by the Sicilian Mafia to gain a foothold in the New Orleans area. When Sicilian gang leader Giuseppi Esposito and a few followers entered New Orleans in 1879 (fleeing from Sicilian justice and unhappy with their brief experiences in the Irish- and Jewish-dominated underworld of New York), Macheca welcomed Esposito and allowed him to share leadership of the New Orleans underworld.

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  • Joseph Macheca
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  • Macheca was born and raised in the Italian-American community of New Orleans and started his own gang there in the 1860s. The Macheca Mob was not a Mafia group when it began. In fact, it thwarted early efforts by the Sicilian Mafia to gain a foothold in the New Orleans area. When Sicilian gang leader Giuseppi Esposito and a few followers entered New Orleans in 1879 (fleeing from Sicilian justice and unhappy with their brief experiences in the Irish- and Jewish-dominated underworld of New York), Macheca welcomed Esposito and allowed him to share leadership of the New Orleans underworld.
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  • Macheca was born and raised in the Italian-American community of New Orleans and started his own gang there in the 1860s. The Macheca Mob was not a Mafia group when it began. In fact, it thwarted early efforts by the Sicilian Mafia to gain a foothold in the New Orleans area. In 1868-1869, Macheca's group battled with and eventually defeated a Mafia organization led by Raffaele Agnello. Macheca reportedly learned a great deal from his encounters with the Agnello gang and adopted its Sicilian Mafia-style hierarchy and old-country connections after the conflict was ended. Macheca fell under the influence of the newly formed Mafia splinter group, the Stuppagghieri, based in Monreale, Sicily. When Sicilian gang leader Giuseppi Esposito and a few followers entered New Orleans in 1879 (fleeing from Sicilian justice and unhappy with their brief experiences in the Irish- and Jewish-dominated underworld of New York), Macheca welcomed Esposito and allowed him to share leadership of the New Orleans underworld. The New Orleans police became aware of the existence of the local Mafia branch the following year, as Esposito lieutenant Joe Provenzano began dominating rackets on the docks. The police, in particular David Hennessey and his cousin Mike, were able to move against Esposito in 1881. The Sicilian fugitive was sent to New York City in July of that year and deported to Italy on Sept. 21. After Esposito's departure from New Orleans, the mob he left behind split into two factions, one led by Tony and Charles Matranga with Macheca their trusted adviser and the other comprised of the Provenzano family and its supporters. Through the course of the next six years, the two sides imported numerous Sicilian criminals to enhance their strength, the Provenzano group drawing from Palermo's Mafiosi and the Macheca group drawing from the Stuppagghieri. Hostilities between the two groups increased until war broke out in 1888.
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