John Alite is a pathological liar. He is a fraud, he was a low level hood and never a big time mobster. He just lied that he was one and a "hitman" on the witness stand to convict who the government claimed were big shot mobsters. He tried to get people the death penalty for murders they didn't even do. But, he was exposed in HUNDREDS of lies and was never called again as a witness after he was laughed off the stand. A few years later however George Anastasia reprinted those same lies in their book and acted like they were never exposed (while also adding new lies on top of them).

I built a website exposing hundreds of lies Alite told in their book and many new ones he's told since.

Here are some that are touched upon in the above thread:

The truth about his imprisonment in Brazil:
JohnAliteFacts.com/Brazil

Audio/video interviews with his cellmate in Brazil who claims that it was easy time and not the hellhole that Alite describes:
JohnAliteFacts.com/Marcos

Regarding the "shoot out" on his property (he lied in his book that Tommy Pitera sent Mexican hitmen to kill him, even though he never testified about it in court and gave totally different accounts of the incident and number of people killed during it in his FBI debriefings, during a radio show and in the Trevor McDonald documentary):
JohnAliteFacts.com/Shootout