Day to Day Life of a Mobster

Blood of Our Fathers interview with Sonny Girard

Sonny Girard is a former mobster who wrote this novel while serving time in prison for racketeering. A recognized expert on organized crime, he has appeared on major television shows, including The O’Reilly Factor, Geraldo, and Politically Incorrect. Sonny divides his time between Los Angeles and Boca Raton.

Sonny shares with Heal Yourself Talk Radio listeners his experiences with the underbelly of life and what he learned in the past has helped him in his future. How one word from a principal propelled him not to believe in his own talent-writing and how the lessons he learned were all a part of his life.

This is a side of the mafia that is not known, I know many of you are thinking about the mafia like you see it in movies and in the Sopranos. I want you all to have an open mind and listen to Sonny’s full interview.  Sonny overcame many obstacles in his life, and re-found himself and his passion for writing….you can purchase his books at his website http://www.sonnysmobcafe.com and also post questions to Sonny.

“Fix what you can in the past, what you cannot leave in the past and look towards tomorrow…”-Sonny Girard

Sonny shares how during his prison time he came to realize that a lack of a father figure and the way his parents talked to him about money helped propel him to the life that he lived in the mafia.

About Sonny

Sonny Girard was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan but raised in the Red Hook and Navy Yard sections of South Brooklyn: Mob Country. He has spent the greater part of his adult life on the inside of organized crime, not as a hanger-on or sycophant, but as a full time participant.

The target of a three-and-a-half year undercover operation by New York’s Organized Crime Control Bureau, Sonny was characterized by the New York Post as “…a middle echelon member” of one of New York’s five mob families. His arrest resulted in a three year sentence in State Prison, where he maxed out in facilities like Sing Sing, Dannemora, Downstate, and Arthurkill.

Convicted later of racketeering, under the R.I.C.O. Organized Crime Statute, by Rudy Giuliani’s office, and sentenced to seven years in Federal Prison, Sonny Girard again served the maximum time allowed under the law. It was during that term that he wrote the first of his three novels, “Blood of Our Fathers,” which was published by Pocket/Simon & Schuster.

Due to his unique mob experiences and his ability to communicate about the inside workings of organized crime, he has been in demand from various television and radio shows and print interviews in the U.S., Canada, and Italy. His recent appearances and interviews include Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” Bill Maher’s “Politically Incorrect” during “Mob Week,” ABC-TV’s “Nightline,” and Italy’s RAI-TV and nationally distributed newspapers “Corriere della Sera” and “Il Tempo.”

-From Sonny’s Mob Cafe