This is just ONE example of my post yesterday in other thread about the 'strength' of Jewish wiseguys back in the day. Wekar was a very well liked and respected guy by Cosa Nostra.

I had an occasion to meet him at the wedding of a wiseguy at a catering hall in Brooklyn back in the 1980s. He was an old man by then and someone we mutually knew introduced me to him at the table.

He sat with wiseguys from two different crews the whole night at the same table.

He was a respected guy.

I will be posting up more top New York City Mafia-affiliated Jewish mobsters over the next week or so to give a more balanced perspective of their true place in the New York underworld at that time.

PS: one more thing. When I met him, I had already heard his name spoken previously. He had a huge reputation as a top bookmaker that proceeded him.