Getting back to Junior, nobody in his own family respected him, let alone other families, and but for dumb luck someone like Nicky Corozzo or Zeke Squitieri would've taken over sooner.
Junior was very arrogant and not a very good boss, but the story that Junior wasn't respected and that the Genoveses wouldn't even meet with him wasn't true at all according to Mikey Scars.
DiLeonardo said that Junior was a "power" and that the belief that some crime families didn't recognize him is totally false.
"When we were in the street, we met many times with [the administration of the Genovese family]," as well as the administrations of other families.
"We did business with the West Side all the time."
