Hello.  If you've come to this page, you are probably curious about the Mobster's Daughter autobiography.

My grandfather and his brothers grew up in New York during the Prohibition Era of the 1920's.  They grew up with all of the famous crime families of that era.  They were good friends with Joe Profaci,  Tommy Lucchese and Albert Anastasia.  They grew up becoming experts at truck hijacking, loansharking, fraud, and many other crimes of that time.  My grandfather was even an expert at disguises.  He once convinced an entire courtroom that he was a lawyer.  He never was.  But he went in there in a suit and had fake business cards printed up and he convinced a judge and the whole courtroom that he was a professional lawyer.  My grandfather was a real piece of work to behold in his day.  

My grandfather's brother's, my great uncles, were all involved in what was called The Reader's Digest Heist.  They masterminded a truck hijacking.  But something went wrong, someone was killed.  And all of my grandfather's brothers ended up sentenced to the electric chair for that.  They were executed.  My grandfather had made millions of dollars in the crime syndicate, but when his brothers got into trouble, he spent most of it on lawyers trying to get them out.  But it was to no avail.  They were electrocuted in the chair, all the same.

My grandfather spent alot of time in and out prisons.  He would go from making a great deal of money, so much so, that the family actually had a very hard time of hiding the money.  My mother used to tell me that my grandmother would be running around the house looking for places to stuff the money.  They dealt in cash in those days.  Imagine if your only problem in life was where to hide your money?  I was born much later and never got to have those days.

Although they had great wealth at times, when the law did finally catch up, they ended up losing it all.  Everything, the houses, the cars, the expensive artifacts they collected from their trips around the world.  They lost it all. 

The Mobster's Daughter is my mother's true life story of growing up in that old style crime family.  And what happens to the family when the law catches up and the champagne stops flowing.

And just for visiting this site, I'm giving you an old news article about my grandfather's brother, Calman Cooper.  If you love old crime stories, this article is from the late 1940's.  And you can see pictures of my great uncle and read all about the crime.

 

   To learn more, buy The Mobster's Daughter, my mother's Autobiography by Judy Giannotti.  And we also co-wrote a companion cookbook, The Mobster's Daughter's Cookbook.  The cookbook contains all the delicious dishes my family enjoyed and served to their crime boss friends.  The cookbook makes for a very unique gift for food lovers.  Both books are available on Amazon in both Paperback and Kindle.