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American Huckster: How Chuck Blazer Got Rich From-And Sold Out-The Most Powerful
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- 0062449699
- EAN
- 9780062449696
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- American Huckster : How Chuck Blazer Got Rich from-And Sold Out-the Most Powerful Cabal in World Sports
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Business Aspects, Soccer, History, Sports
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 8.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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The first inside account of the international soccer scandal that rocked the world and the American at its center--the incredible story of how a stay-at-home New York soccer dad illegally made millions off the world's most powerful and corrupt sports organization and became an unlikely FBI whistleblower. He was the middle-class Jewish kid from Queens who rose from local youth soccer leagues to the heights of FIFA, becoming a larger-than-life, jet-setting buccaneer--and the most notorious FBI informant in sports history. For years, Chuck Blazer skimmed over $20 million from FIFA, stashing his money in offshore accounts and real estate holdings that included a luxury apartment in Trump Tower, a South Beach condo, and a hideaway in the Bahamas. Instantly recognizable with his unruly mass of salt-and-pepper hair and matching beard--and a rotating crop of arm candy--Blazer was one of the most flamboyant figures in the glitzy social and political circles of international soccer. Over the course of thirty years, Blazer leveraged his friendships with the likes of Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton and Nelson Mandela, to increase his influence with the mandarins of global soccer--most notably Sepp Blatter, FIFA's long-time godfather. Once Blatter tapped Blazer to be the first American in almost fifty years to sit on FIFA's executive committee, the erstwhile accountant steadily accumulated money and power--until 2013 when the FBI and IRS nabbed Blazer and charged him with fraud, money laundering, and tax evasion. In exchange for immunity, Blazer agreed to let the Feds install a microphone in his keychain to entrap his larcenous band of brothers--leading to the shocking arrest and indictment of eighteen FIFA officials for racketeering and bribery. In this taut and suspenseful tale of white-collar crime and betrayal at the highest levels of international business, investigative reporters Mary Papenfuss and Teri Thompson draw on sources in U.S. law enforcement as well as in Blazer's inner circle to tell the surreal tale of this astonishing character and the scandal that rocked the world.
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HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062449699
ISBN-13
9780062449696
eBay Product ID (ePID)
227652990
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Huckster : How Chuck Blazer Got Rich from-And Sold Out-the Most Powerful Cabal in World Sports
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Business Aspects, Soccer, History, Sports
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
8.6 Oz
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Gv942.7.B555p36 2017
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Mary Papenfuss and Teri Thompson have done a fabulous job of unraveling the biggest corruption story in world sport. They've dug deep into documents they shouldn't have seen, talked with people who can't be named. American Huckster is a brilliant, gripping piece of work., "Mary Papenfuss and Teri Thompson have done a fabulous job of unraveling the biggest corruption story in world sport. They've dug deep into documents they shouldn't have seen, talked with people who can't be named. American Huckster is a brilliant, gripping piece of work." -- Andrew Jennings, author of The Dirty Game: Uncovering the Scandal at FIFA "Chuck Blazer is a character straight out of Damon Runyon. He may have been able to extort millions from the Lords of Soccer, but in American Huckster Teri Thompson and Mary Papenfuss deliver the definitive take-down of a world-class fraud." -- Mike Lupica, Chuck Blazer is a character straight out of Damon Runyon. He may have been able to extort millions from the Lords of Soccer, but in American Huckster Teri Thompson and Mary Papenfuss deliver the definitive take-down of a world-class fraud.
Copyright Date
2017
Dewey Decimal
796.334092
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Trade
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23
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ANOTHER Mary Papenfuss FAIL.. unconfirmed sources and OPINIONS as facts, I wouldn't support anything she does
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