And that's why Pesci didn't want to do Gotti. There was nobody like Scorsese involved. I doubt it had anything to do with the integrity or honesty of the script. He'd done movies before based on real life mobster that deviated from reality.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
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