NY Daily News article on new Alite book

[Cheech]

100% bullshit. But I was just pointing out what the article said for non tri state forum posters.
Wasn't agreeing for the record.

[Pogo The Clown]

From the looks of it the movie would have been crap anyway. Glad it is not being made. The ony benefit from it would have been to bring new posters to the forum.


Pogo

[East Bronx]

And the movie is scrapped. Supposedly Junior scrapped it due to his mom not wanting it. Afraid if they made a movie the Feds would arrest him again. But because Alite is coming out he decided to as well.

That movie was NEVER getting made.

I said it TIME AFTER TIME on the other site, as far back as four years ago after that pathetic press conference with Lindsay Lohan (which was just a pitiful and unsuccessful attempt to raise capital for the movie). And yet the same posters would say, But Pizza, you never know with Hollywood, Wouldn't it be great, And yada yada yada. Like sixty a year old, homosexual John Travolta could pull off playing a thirty year old Gotti anyway (assuming that the film started in the '70s, which is a given).

Well, I knew. Because the producer was never getting the financing in the street, and he was never getting a real studio behind that piece of shit script. The producer did a little time and thinks he's half a fucking wiseguy. Yet they think so little of him, that Pesci was given the go ahead to sue him. What's that tell you?

This book is just a "novelization" of that script. And they couldn't even get a real publisher near the thing, in a day and age when Harper Collins will get behind a book by Snooki and the Jersey Shore. Give me a fucking break .

[Cheech]

Totally agree EB. And for the record last time. I was only posting what he said in the article. I'm not co signing it.

Honestly. It's absurd it's even on the front page of the Sunday paper. I mean I know why but it doesn't make it right. Tons of issues globally, nationally, and just local to nyc that could have been on the cover. The Gotti story is old. Surprised the old lady didn't write a letter

[Wiseguy]

"Never Before Seen Gotti Family Photos"

I posted a couple of the more interesting ones. All of them can be found at the link at the bottom.

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Left to Right: Unknown, Frank DeCicco, George Remini, John Gotti, Unknown, Mikey Paradiso at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in 1970

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Surveillance photo of Junior Gotti, James "Jimmy Brown" Failla, and Joe "Butch" Corrao outside the Bergen Club in 1991.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gotti-p ... -1.2082645

[SonnyBlackstein]

I think the movie is not getting made because the studios in Hollywood don't want to make it. The movie has already been made with Assante. How many Gotti movies can you make?

We're talking about Hollywood here. ALL they do is remake fucking movies. 80% of releases in the past decade are remake's.
Originality is NOT Hollywoods mantra.


Not that I think the movie will be made, but it wont be made for the above reason, imo.

[Pogo The Clown]

Great picture of Junior with Failla and Corrao. It must have really burned their asses to take orders from that punk.


Pogo

[toto]

Great picture of Junior with Failla and Corrao. It must have really burned their asses to take orders from that punk.


Pogo

Is it correct a few years later Failla threatened to kill Gotti Jr. after the father was sentenced to life.

[Wiseguy]

Just finished the Alite book. Some of the more interesting stuff...


1. The Junior Gotti crew was into a lot of stuff. Their biggest money-maker was the drug trade. Alite said their cocaine operation was grossing about $1 million a month. They also extorted and robbed other drug dealers. They were partners in the bookmaking business with Willie Boy Johnson. They ran a prostitution house for a short time with Ronnie Trucchio. As we already knew, they were involved in different legit businesses (albeit funded with drug and gambling money) down in Florida like the valet business, a glass shop, a restaurant and a nightclub. They also moved into the valet business in New Jersey. There was the extortion of the Scores strip club. And they "unionized" bouncers in several clubs in Queens, Manhattan, and Long Island by forcing the clubs to only hire their bouncers from which they got a cut of their pay.

2. Alite said Gotti Sr. took over as captain of the Bergin crew after Fat Andy Ruggiano went to prison (I think this was before his final sentencing in 1987). I found that interesting because the conventional wisdom seemed to be he took over after Fatico retired.

3. Just months after Gotti Sr.'s conviction, a plot to kill Gotti Jr. was planned by the imprisoned John Carneglia (who believed the Gotti's had robbed him of money owed to him on the street), Charles Carneglia, Nick Corozzo and Danny Marino. They approached Alite about helping set Junior up and, his relationship with Junior on the skids by then, he agreed. Alite said at one point Nick Corozzo decided to "trade bullets for dollars" by sending his nephew to visit Gotti Sr. in prison and deliver a message - "We can't protect Junior on the streets. He's got to slide over or he's going to be killed." Gotti Sr. got the message and worked out a deal where he funneled several hundred thousand dollars to Corozzo, thus ending Corozzo's involvement in the plot. Alite said Charles Carneglia "sold out for a lot less" when Carmine Agnello agreed to put him on the payroll of an auto salvage yard he owned. Later on, in 2006, there was supposedly another plot to kill Junior. The Gambinos believed he "had millions stashed away" and couldn't do a long prison stretch. In fact, they thought he may already be cooperating and didn't like how he had been acting and his claims of "leaving" the mob. Members of the "Howard Beach Crew" met with Sonny Franzese who gave his approval to have Junior killed.

4. At one point Alite tried to transfer over to the Lucchese family but Gotti and the rest of the Gambino hierarchy wouldn't approve it.

5. While they were running the valet business down in Florida, one night there was a Bentley parked in the VIP spot next to one of the clubs. Whoever parked there was supposed to put $20 in the tip bucket but it was empty. Alite discovered it was NBA star Allen Iverson. Alite approached Iverson at his table and told him to move his car. Iverson balked at first, playing the "Do you know who I am?" routine, but after he asked the club manager who Alite was, Iverson was very apologetic and put money in the bucket.

6. Alite claimed that Vincent Gotti took a girl he was dating to the Kennedy Inn Airport Hotel. They were doing drugs, got into an argument, and he ended up strangling her to death. Her body was later found dumped in a garbage pile in Brooklyn.

7. Alite did time with Gene Gotti and hung out with him in prison but they had a falling out after Alite confronted Gene, and slapped him, because Gene was "abusing" old Gambino captain Joe Gambino who was also there in the same prison.

8. When Alite started operating in South Jersey he got to know some of the Philly guys. At one point Louie Turra tried to hire Alite to kill Joey Merlino but Alite turned him down, saying he didn't need the money. He thought the Turras were "crazy." He also got to know Ronnie Turchi (they were involved in the cell phone tower business) and he warned Turchi it appeared other Philly mob guys were planning to kill him after Natale flipped but Turchi didn't believe it. Alite also knew Johnny Gongs, Joe Ligambi, Anthony Staino and Joe Massimino.


"John Gotti's Rules of Leadership" (many of which the Gottis themselves broke)

1. Whenever possible, underlings must take the weight of a crime pending against Gotti or his family.

2. No member of any crew, in the presence of the boss, may wear sunglasses.

3. Members and associates are not to speak to the media.

4. Wives and girlfriends are to remain low-key. They are not to speak in public or call attention to themselves.

5. Whenever possible, use demeaning nicknames to describe underlings. It establishes who is in charge and who is subservient.

6. Drug dealing is prohibited and punishable by death. (Any member or associate dealing drugs must share his profits with the boss.)

7. Always keep underlings waiting. It reminds them who's in control without saying a word.

8. No member or associate is to fool around with the wife, girlfriend, or daughter of another member of the organization.

9. Always acknowledge the presence of the boss first in any public or social setting. In any social setting with members of other crime families, make them come to you to pay their respects. Going to them first is a sign of weakness.

10. Never talk business indoors. The government has "ears." If you are talking business in a car, be sure the radio is turned up loud. Best to talk on the street while walking.

11. When charged with a crime, no matter the circumstances, do not plead guilty. It's a sign of weakness.

12. Always manipulate the facts to present a positive image. Perception is reality.

[Rocco]

thanks for posting that prison pic of Gotti. Interesting Gotti was there with Mickey Paridiso. Its been written that they didn't like each other at all. I wondered if this came from the doing time together or later out on the street. Wasn't it written that Paridiso was the one that had Casso shot for screwing him on a drug deal?

[Pogo The Clown]

Good stuff Wiseguy. Thanks for taking the time to post all of that up. Vincent Gotti sounds like a real peach. Interestingly he gets out in a few days.

Is it correct a few years later Failla threatened to kill Gotti Jr. after the father was sentenced to life.

Could be right. I'm not sure.


Pogo

[Rocco]

Good stuff Wiseguy. Thanks for taking the time to post all of that up. Vincent Gotti sounds like a real peach. Interestingly he gets out in a few days.

Is it correct a few years later Failla threatened to kill Gotti Jr. after the father was sentenced to life.

Could be right. I'm not sure.


Pogo

Seems like everyone wanted to kill JR as soon as the old man got life. Most of the Gambino Family and the Brooklyn faction of the Lucheses as well. I am sure the list is allot longer.

[East Bronx]

Great picture of Junior with Failla and Corrao. It must have really burned their asses to take orders from that punk.


Pogo

Joe Butch was a fucking behemoth. Not thick, mind you. But tall as fuck, and lanky, with big hands, and wrists like like fucking knockwursts. He was like one of those big, tough as nails, Croatian basketball players. Dražen Petrović with a Glock Nine.

[Antiliar]

Gotti jr incriminating himself in a book... What a great idea. Looks like he's just itching for round five


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I'm sure his attorney reviewed the book first to make sure he didn't do that. He can say anything he wants about his dead father. Who's going to contradict him? Plus it's hearsay.

[willychichi]

Alite and Gotti websites and interviews.

http://johnalite.com/

https://www.johnagotti.com/