Yes he is legit. Most of his stories and information can be backed up. He writes fiction, but he does write about his years growing up at least talks about it. Confirmed he did beat up at least two child molesters in prison, and him hanging out with a sex offender is true, but it was one of those bs raps, the guy was 18 and the girl was 17. Inside he was involved in stamps and gambling. In the family he was indeed an enforcer, most of the info is public knowledge so look it up. The Forrest Gump angle not really but he is privy to something's in LCN outside of Michigan, and has refused to mentioned them, except for one story since the two guys from NYC are dead and he changed the associate name that was involved in the story. If Detroit felt he was liability, something would have happened to him. He mainly writes fiction stories.