Criminals: My Family's Life on Both Sides of the Law

A prismatic, provocative look at one family—led by a charismatic, defense attorney father—whose bonds exist on both sides of the law



The Siegels of New York are a singular creation—quirky, idealistic, shaped in large part by Robert Anthony Siegel's father, a lovable, impossible man of gargantuan appetites and sloppy ethics, a criminal defense attorney who loved his drug–dealing clients a little too much and went to prison as a result. Siegel's mother decided to pour her energies into making ...