You are right,i dont know nothing about it and nobody in my family has ever been to jail or even close,so i belive what you all are saying.

To get get back on topic,to me and ONLY to me,myself and i,a guys who reads books about the LCN and everything to do with NY in general,topic of Gotti aswell as his legacy is dull and spread out.He is not interasting to me at all not to mention his son.John sr,a guy who couldnt do anything more than loan shark and gamble.His son who is called an idiot by his own father,is a story for himself.Grow up needing nothing in a middle class community,went to that academy and so on..Now he wanted to be a gangster,thats so wrong in manny ways.Than he gets made at 24,talk about nepotism.That guy has no charm no charisma,not one bit.He will never see a dime from me personally,nor do i belive his crap.Thats all i have to say on this book topic,sorry if this offends somebody.

Of that I'm aware. What has this to do with ethical prosecution?



I'm sorry I'm still not seeing a point here. 'Prosecutorial leverage at a federal level'?
You stated the high rate of conviction was due to unfairness, then alluded to it being due to unethical behaviour. I'm still not seeing any supporting evidence of this.

The success rate in conviction is in almost all mafia cases due to prosecutors assembling a preponderance of evidence before the case is even brought to trial. Not because of ethics or even the mysterious prosecutorial leverage, at any level.

And throwing in an insult says more about your argument, than mine.

Gotti Jr and Alite competing to release a book first, that says alot given the kindle stuff is so cheap will probably buy both of them.

Tell that to the Kubecka & Barstow families. How much time did Anthony Baratta & Salvatore Avellino do in prison for their murders? Did their fortunes get touched? I mean Bowat was dealing in heroin in prison! Yet he's home free again and gets to enjoy his retirement and have sit downs with his ne'er do well son over a table at Rao's. First world problems eh?

I hear what people say about John Gotti e.g. not getting his first choice lawyer when he finally went down - I thought it was because of a blatant conflict of interest because mob lawyers were getting too involved/aware of clients other/crimes - but what about all the money the govt. spent on Gotti's other trials and the 16 hour days prosecutors put in for a case that was a forgone conclusion because the defendant bought a juror anyway?

So what if the govt. plays them at their own game if that's what it has to do to put them away. Mobsters can extort/defraud/loanshark/kill/deal drugs with immunity and the govt. can't touch them.

At least they can afford the best legal help with the money from their illegal assets or decide to co-operate.

I don't think Antwone or Jose can afford Cutler's rates.

This book just keeps dragging on and on and on...so far he makes himself out to be some boy scout it's kinda stupid.

jr was smart to go the kindle route as hes probably dissecting the alite book and will write another 500 pages to discredit it and just make a few more bucks. a friend in jail says its common that inmates who have problems with others access to the law library/computers can type up fake paperwork on some one and get them labeled a rat. remember that guy in the feds who made up a bunch of fakes 302 putting puff daddy behind the murder of biggie or some sshit like that maybe 2pac. he was a fat guy in on fraud charges. think the post or the daily news took the bite. it looked so real and he duped a lot of folks. but I believe George a and his editors wouldn't be stupid anuff to get sued.

3Tomatos, Amazon has something called Kindle for PC. You don't need to own a special tablet or Nook in order to download an eBook. You download Kindle for PC right to the computer you already use, then you can read books full screen right from home with one click of the mouse.

I still love a hardcover though. Nothing like holding a heavy book in your hand and flipping through the tan sheets with black type on them. Right now I'm getting into some Peter Lance (Deal With The Devil). He is a great true crime author.

Carnesi (the lawyer) isn't denying that the 302 is valid, he's just asking who leaked it. That tells you all you need to know.

Absolutely. The only thing I like about a tablet/book reader is the free preview. If I like the preview, then I usually go buy the hardcover (unless of course the book is "direct to Kindle").

Well...one thing I like about this site, is that practically everyone here loves to read. This is an educational forum.

I downloaded the Alite book on Kindle and am about 50% through it. It is good and really holds your attention however you have to keep in mind that there is a lot of BS in it. I am sure the Jr Gotti book will also have a lot of BS. These two books are about two guys who used to be good friends but now hate each other, so you have to factor in all the animosity and the truth will be somewhere in the middle. I will order the Gotti book when I finish Alite.

I only read some of the previews and Alite's book seemed a little more interesting and probably a little more truthful. Gotti did give us some family anecdotes but of course the juicy Cosa Nostra details are left out because he's not in the WITSEC or anything like that, so you can't really blame him for that. I'm not sure which one to buy though...