[3] He subsequently served as the head of the vice squad of the Los Angeles Police Department.

[5] His associates included Charlie Crawford, slot-machine king Bob Gans, political fixer Kent Parrot, Zeke Caress, Tutor Scherer, Farmer Page, Charles Cradick, Chuck Addison, and Tony Cornero.

[6] When Judge Fletcher Bowron was elected as the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles on a platform to rid Los Angeles of prostitution, gambling and narcotics in 1938,[2] McAfee moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, within a year.

Three years later he announced plans to build the Golden Nugget, downtown Las Vegas, which opened in 1946.

For example, he was the co-proprietor of the Chapman Building in Fullerton, California, alongside N. Morty Bernstein in 1949, which he leased to the American Red Cross.

[13] With Jake Kozloff and Beldon Katleman, McAfee acquired the Frontier Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in 1951.

[2][17][18] McAfee was a co-founder of the unincorporated place of Paradise, Nevada, near Las Vegas.

[22] Patrick Jenning, The Long Winding Road of Harry Raymond: A Detective's Journey Down the Mean Streets of Pre-War Los Angeles, Bay City Press (2021)