Michael D. Blutrich

Scores (eBook, ePUB)

How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City, Was Extorted out of Millions by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Info

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Produktbeschreibung

A gay man who created New York's most notorious den of heterosexuality . . . an anxious, anything-but-hardboiled lawyer who became one of the most successful undercover mob informants in history. . . . In this hilarious and fascinating account, Michael Blutrich takes you inside star-studded 1990s New York, mafia sit-downs, and the witness protection program. Meet Michael D. Blutrich, founder of Scores, the hottest strip club in New York history. A resourceful lawyer at one of the city's most respected firms, Blutrich fell into the skin trade almost by accident, but it was his legal savvy that made Scores the first club in Manhattan to feature lap dances and enabled him to neatly sidestep a law requiring dancers to wear pasties by instead covering their nipples with latex paint. Soon Scores, the club Howard Stern called "like being in a candy shop,” was a home away from home for everyone from sports superstars and Oscar-winning actors to pop singers and political notables alike. The catch? The club was smack dab in John Gotti's territory, and the mafia wanted a piece of the action. The Gambino family doesn't take no for an answer . . . and neither, as it turns out, does the FBI. In his memoir, Blutrich recounts in detail how his beloved club became a hub for the mafia, and how he found himself caught up in an FBI investigation, sorely struggling to juggle roles of business owner and undercover spy. As his life spiraled out of control, Blutrich would face the loss of almost everything dear to him. But whether marching a line of topless strippers as human exhibits into a trial to save the club's liquor license or wearing wires to meetings with armed gangsters, he never lost his sense of humor or his nerve. In Scores, Blutrich finally tells all-from triumph to betrayal-in his own funny, self-deprecating voice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BenBella Books
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781942952640
• Artikelnr.: 49440509

Autorenporträt

After distinguishing himself as an extraordinary undercover cooperator credited with almost 40 convictions of mafia defendants, Michael Blutrich was unexpectedly sentenced, over government opposition, to more than 13 years of imprisonment in the Federal Witness Security Program. Today he lives and works under a new identity in a secret location. After graduating from the Georgetown University Law Center law, Blutrich had a distinguished legal career as a Park Avenue attorney, including a partnership with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. As an entrepreneur, he was the original owner of SCORES as well as several other popular nightclubs, owned an HBO boxing promotion enterprise, and for seven years hosted ?Psychic Eye, an acclaimed radio talk show on both WOR-AM and WEVD-AM in New York City. Anderson Cooper recently interviewed him on a segment of 60 Minutes examining his undercover experiences.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue Murders That Shocked the Big Apple
Part One PLEASE STOP BUGGING ME!
Chapter One Coping with Murder
Chapter Two Taking Control and Promoting the HBO Fight
Chapter Three Scores-Style Softball
Chapter Four Hints of Future Problems Erupt
Chapter Five How Did I Wind Up Here?
Chapter Six The Madness Continues to Grow
Chapter Seven No More Secrets
Chapter Eight The Government Extends an Invitation
Part Two SCORES: WHERE SPORTS AND PLEASURE COME TOGETHER
Chapter Nine The Birth of Scores
Chapter Ten An Unexpectedly Difficult Creation
Chapter Eleven Mafia for Dummies
Chapter Twelve Landing the Liquor License
Chapter Thirteen Welcome to Scores
Chapter Fourteen How to Own a Strip Club
Chapter Fifteen Valuable Lessons for Strip Bar Owners
Chapter Sixteen Can Scores Be Rescued from Financial Ruin?
Chapter Seventeen Howard Stern and Scores: A Love Affair for the Ages
Chapter Eighteen Celebrity Hordes Rock Our World
Chapter Nineteen Breasts on Trial in Manhattan
Chapter Twenty Trying to Tame the Mafia Beast
Part Three DANCING WITH THE DEVIL
Chapter Twenty-One The First Proffer: Time to Start Spilling the Beans
Chapter Twenty-Two Hello Cooperation, Good-bye Sanity
Chapter Twenty-Three I Think I'm Gonna Puke
Chapter Twenty-Four Sergio's Encore Performance
Chapter Twenty-Five Lights, Camera, Action!
Chapter Twenty-Six Sergio's Real Encore Performance
Chapter Twenty-Seven The Beat Goes On
Chapter Twenty-Eight The Investigation Just Keeps On Expanding
Chapter Twenty-Nine Meeting with the Florida Prosecutors
Chapter Thirty The Investigation Moves Up the Mafia Hierarchy
Chapter Thirty-One Hemorrhoids to the Rescue
Chapter Thirty-Two Money Laundering and Florida Craziness
Chapter Thirty-Three Cooperation Complications, and How Leonardo DiCaprio
Saved My Life
Chapter Thirty-Four The Rule of Threes
Chapter Thirty-Five Descent into Madness
Part Four BECOMING IRRELEVANT
Chapter Thirty-Six Shock and Awe
Chapter Thirty-Seven A New Life Begins, Maybe
Chapter Thirty-Eight The 156-Page Plea
Chapter Thirty-Nine Surrender
Chapter Forty Sentencing, Parts I and II
Epilogue The Aftermath