Another point about Waxey:

It is possible--I believe likely--that Waxey got his start in bootlegging not with Rothstein but with George Remus. In 1920, Remus set up a network of drug companies in New York to serve as outlets for the liquor he was holding in his various warehouses and distilleries in Ohio, Kentucky, and elsewhere. These New York companies included the Alps Drug Company, the Central Drug Company, the S & B Drug Specialty Company, and the L. E. Witter Drug Company. Also in the network were three other firms, the Reliance Distributing Company, the Delatour Beverage Company, and the U. S. P. Alcohol Company. In creating this network, Remus had the advice and help of Elijah Zoline, a former Chicago attorney who had moved to New York, and Mannie Kessler, a former New York liquor dealer who had become a bootlegger. The network was broken up by the law in 1921. Waxey's name did not surface in the investigation which followed, but in 1923 some of the officers of these companies were found not guilty in New York. A little over two years later, when the headquarters of Waxey's Broadway rum-running operation was raided, it was found that many of the men who had staffed the New York companies in Remus' network had joined up with Waxey. These included Alvin and Louis Billoon, Max Gordon, Samuel W. Rappaport, Arthur Kraus, and Leonard Dresdner. Mannie Kessler, prominent in New York and New Jersey bootlegging throughout the Prohibition era, was later named as a partner or junior associate of Waxey's. So too was Charles J. Steinberg, alias Broadway Charlie Stern, a onetime official of Reliance Distributing who was involved in multiple rum-running operations in the late 1920s and early 30s. John La Penna, another figure in the Remus drug network, was the brother of James La Penna, who was named in the late 30s as an agent of Johnny Torrio in his bootlegging operations and also as an associate of Waxey's. I do not believe it very likely that these veterans of the Remus network went looking for new connections in 1923 and just happened to run into Waxey. I think it is more probable that Waxey already knew these men and that he had some role in the Remus network in 1921, most likely as strong arm/protection.