What if you discovered your closest relatives were deeply entangled with the Mafia?
A blind, nationally prominent criminal trial attorney tells a spellbinding multigenerational story of his family, from their origins in southern Italy to their immigration to the United States and gradual descent into organized crime in the just-published book, "La Famiglia and Their Blind Advocate," by Dominic Sposeto with Sherry Sposeto-Jakey.
San Francisco, CA, June 13, 2005 --(PR.com)-- Out of the blue, Dominic Sposeto, a young criminal attorney born in Des Moines, Iowa and living in San Jose, Calif., received a life-changing phone call.
The caller spoke with a heavy Italian accent. He said he had known Sposeto’s grandmother and needed to speak with Sposeto in person and in private.
During the ensuing visit, the old man explained how immigrant southern Italian families had gradually become involved in organized crime at the turn of the last century, and that one center of such activity was Des Moines. He warned Sposeto that he might be putting himself in danger in some of his legal cases in which present-day underworld figures played a part.
Sposeto left the meeting with the uneasy feeling that the old man was suggesting Sposeto’s own family might have been involved in nefarious activities.
Shocked and curious, Sposeto set about researching his own roots. What he learned confirmed his worst suspicions. He wrote, "Prohibition was fast approaching, and it was at this time the family, while living in Des Moines, Iowa, became involved in bootlegging which erupted into warring factions in the Italian underworld and an ugly tale of murder and retaliation which left a trail of tears and devastation."
In the book "La Famiglia and Their Blind Advocate," the reader accompanies Sposeto as he uncovers fact after surprising fact about a Des Moines unimaginable today—where threats, treachery and cold-blooded shootings were commonplace and immigrant families lived in constant fear.
We follow the tale to the 1940s, when influential Sicilian connections and the family matriarch led the family to leave the Midwest and seek a better way of life in California.
And finally we accompany Sposeto as he goes about creating his own amazing life. Blind since his early 20s, he nevertheless rose to nationwide prominence as a criminal attorney. Looking back at his life and career now from age 70, Sposeto shows us that his lifelong goal of restoring the honor of his family has finally been realized.
Author Contact:
Dominic Sposeto
437 Third Street West
Sonoma, CA 95476
707-939-8765
w.sposeto@worldnet.att.net
ISBN: 1932672710
Retail Price(s): $14.95 paperback $25.95 hardback
Size and Format(s): 5.5 x8.5
Page Count: 222 pages
Availability: Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Amazon.com, B&N.com, www.outskirtspres.com/LaFamiglia
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The caller spoke with a heavy Italian accent. He said he had known Sposeto’s grandmother and needed to speak with Sposeto in person and in private.
During the ensuing visit, the old man explained how immigrant southern Italian families had gradually become involved in organized crime at the turn of the last century, and that one center of such activity was Des Moines. He warned Sposeto that he might be putting himself in danger in some of his legal cases in which present-day underworld figures played a part.
Sposeto left the meeting with the uneasy feeling that the old man was suggesting Sposeto’s own family might have been involved in nefarious activities.
Shocked and curious, Sposeto set about researching his own roots. What he learned confirmed his worst suspicions. He wrote, "Prohibition was fast approaching, and it was at this time the family, while living in Des Moines, Iowa, became involved in bootlegging which erupted into warring factions in the Italian underworld and an ugly tale of murder and retaliation which left a trail of tears and devastation."
In the book "La Famiglia and Their Blind Advocate," the reader accompanies Sposeto as he uncovers fact after surprising fact about a Des Moines unimaginable today—where threats, treachery and cold-blooded shootings were commonplace and immigrant families lived in constant fear.
We follow the tale to the 1940s, when influential Sicilian connections and the family matriarch led the family to leave the Midwest and seek a better way of life in California.
And finally we accompany Sposeto as he goes about creating his own amazing life. Blind since his early 20s, he nevertheless rose to nationwide prominence as a criminal attorney. Looking back at his life and career now from age 70, Sposeto shows us that his lifelong goal of restoring the honor of his family has finally been realized.
Author Contact:
Dominic Sposeto
437 Third Street West
Sonoma, CA 95476
707-939-8765
w.sposeto@worldnet.att.net
ISBN: 1932672710
Retail Price(s): $14.95 paperback $25.95 hardback
Size and Format(s): 5.5 x8.5
Page Count: 222 pages
Availability: Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Amazon.com, B&N.com, www.outskirtspres.com/LaFamiglia
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