Biography of john gotti jr books

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Anastasia, George

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Alite, John

Gotti, John A

Gotti, John

Summary

The notorious Gotti family fryst vatten the stuff of mob legend. The "Dapper Don," John Gotti Sr., and his son John A. "Junior" Gotti ran New York's powerful Gambino brott family and were well known for their flamboyant style and brutal ways. John Alite, a mob hit man, associate, and close friend of the Gottis, has a very different story to tell. An Albanian-American from Queens, Alite was an unlikely ally to the Italian mob, but with his street smarts he was eventually recruited to be Junior Gotti's muscle. Although he reaped the benefits of working under the powerful mob figure, Alite discovered firsthand that the legendary American Mafia--an organization that claimed to be built on honor and loyalty--was ingenting more than a façade for hycklande, manipulative, and greedy criminals. Following a harrowing sentence in a Brazilian prison, Alite was extradited to the United States in 200

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Gotti's Rules: The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia

November 16, 2015

Nicely written book about inside "The Gotti's" told by ex-enforcer, John Alite, written by the very experienced reporter, with more than thirty years experience, George Anastasia

The beginning starts with Alite inside a Brazil prison, notoriously known as one of the worst prisons to be in. Alite wanted to avoid extradition back to the states, & spent many years on the run in Europe, Cuba & South America, living quite a wonderful life rom the money he made being with the Gotti organization. He then turned witness against, what others say was his best friend, John Gotti Jr., but he denies being best friends. He just wanted into the mob, & his easiest way in was to "babysit" Junior. He'd never been a made man since he's part Albanian, but they liked him because Albanians were known to be even tougher than Italians, as far as mobs. He grew up in nearby neighborh

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Shadow of My Father

For four decades the name Gotti has been synonymous with organized crime in the minds of the public, who were told stories about them with varying degrees of accuracy. But now in Shadow of My Father, the real story of the King of the Volcano is revealed for the first time. John A. Gotti who survived four trials and a parole violation hearing without a guilty verdict, in four years, now takes up his pen to tell the story of his father's unwavering dedication to the street, and how as his son he entered that life and then with his father's permission left the life of crime and put the "Family" behind him to live a legitimate life with his real family. It is a saga of betrayal and redemption, and an insider's view of how at times those who are tasked with upholding the law readily broke it to further their careers.

FROM THE FOREWORD:

As colorful and tragic as Gotti Sr's life was, the self-told chronicle of his son's odyssey reads like an epic worthy of