I have just seen a documentary called "Mr Untouchable"

It was based on the life of Nicky Barnes the biggest black drug dealer in the USA during the 70's. It mentions Frank Lucas and his brothers were called the country boys and that Frank had to come through them to get access to the real estate ie drug users in NYC.

It's clear that Nicky Barnes and his gang did not rate Frank Lucas as he wasn't a real New York man. Infact most of the things seen in American Gangster was what Nicky Barnes did such as gifts of food during festive periods and the women not wearing any clothes during packaging the drugs.

The New York Times ran an article on it's front page calling him Mr Untouchable it provoked such an angry response that led to president carter calling the chief of police in NYC requesting that Nicky Barnes be taken off the streets.

All in all a very interesting documentary.