The Alite book was staring at me at the library and despite the warnings here... I took it out and read it.

What a piece of fucking shit! George Anastasia should be ashamed to have put his on that-- lazy lazy lazy and poorly written also.

Did he even go to Woodhaven once, let alone try to half-confirm Alite's abundant line of bullshit?

Undoubtedly Alite has some stories to tell and I was especially interested to hear the Queens and Brooklyn ones but this book is 90% trash.

Compare to the Al D'Arco book which-- whatever one's opinion of Al-- at least the co-authors set his story in reasonable context of place/time.

re: myth of Gotti Sr. 'bringing down,' etc, I totally agree.