Scores

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 Informants

Michael D. Blutrich (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2017
BenBella Books (Verlag)
978-1-942952-63-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	16.02.2017
Verlagsort	Dallas
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	1-942952-63-5 / 1942952635
ISBN-13	978-1-942952-63-3 / 9781942952633
Zustand	Neuware