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PublisherBenBella Books

ISBN-101942952635

ISBN-139781942952633

eBay Product ID (ePID)221527747

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Book TitleScores : 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

Number of Pages328 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicTheater / General, Espionage, Law Enforcement, Organized Crime, Criminals & Outlaws, Criminology

Publication Year2017

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Performing Arts, True Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorMichael D. Blutrich

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight18.4 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2016-037690

Reviews"A fascinating, funny, and, at times, frightening tale of strippers, money, and the mob by one of the FBI's most unlikely informants ever!" --Anderson Cooper "The Mob takes retribution seriously. And it has a long memory and they will find an opportunity, if possible, and they will kill Michael Blutrich." --Art Leach, former federal prosecutor and chief of the Organized Crime Task Force " Scores is a compelling true crime book that takes readers on a wild ride. This book has it all - mobsters, strippers, extortion, G-men, and one unlikely FBI informant. Michael Blutrich has told a riveting tale that will keep reader entertained and enthralled." --Miles Corwin, author of Homicide Special "In Scores , we finally have the definitive insider memoir of the club that changed New York City nightlife forever. The book is a blockbuster ride revealing secrets held close since the 1990s." --Harvey Osher, Scores owner, 1998-2008 "Michael's story is a riveting window into the secret world of FBI undercover cooperation by a prominent NYC lawyer against the Mafia. As Michael's lawyer, I was present for many of the events he describes, and, unbelievable as it may seem, his story is true. His case is like no other I've encountered in my 40-year career, and his book will become an instant classic. Even knowing how it would end, I couldn't put the book down until the final page." --Morris "Sandy" Weinberg, Jr., Partner, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, Tampa, FL, Former AUSA in the Southern District of New York, Chair-elect of the ABA Criminal Justice Section "Michael Blutrich, a smart lawyer from Brooklyn, was feeling pretty good when his new Upper East Side strip club became a must-visit destination for everyone from Leonardo Di Caprio to Donald Trump. Then Blutrich found out he had partners he hadn't known about: John Gotti's crime family. An irrepressible wiseacre, Blutrich's first thought was that he'd seen nothing about that in the lease. Then a couple of hoods whacked two employees and things got very real, very fast. Soon, Blutrich became the least likely undercover agent the FBI ever had, wearing a wire against Gotham's biggest gangsters. But he kept his eyes open and his sense of humor and the result is this great read." --Tom Robbins, investigative reporter and coauthor of Mob Boss

Table Of ContentPrologue 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

SynopsisA 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.

LC Classification NumberHV6452.N7B58 2017