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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 in FBI History
- Narrated by: Michael D. Blutrich
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Summary
Meet Michael Blutrich, mild-mannered New York lawyer and founder of Scores, the hottest strip club in New York City history, funded by the proceeds of an insurance embezzlement scheme.
All Blutrich wanted was to lay low, make the club a success, and put his criminal acts behind him. But the Mafia got involved, and soon the FBI came knocking.
Scores became wildly popular, in part thanks to Blutrich's ability to successfully bend the rules of adult entertainment. It was the first club in Manhattan to feature lap dancing by ignoring existing requirements. He also sidestepped statutes requiring topless dancers to wear pasties. His formula worked, and Scores grew into the hottest club in Manhattan, frequented by sports superstars, Oscar-winning actors, television icons, Grammy-winning singers, and political notables alike.
Unfortunately for Blutrich, it would all soon implode.
Scores was located in a neighborhood controlled by the Gambino crime family, and it became a hotbed for illicit mob activity, culminating in a double murder of two of his employees. When federal prosecutors started sniffing around for potential crimes, he went from carefree club owner to undercover spy in a heartbeat.
To obtain maximum leniency for his insurance fraud, Blutrich became an unlikely but highly successful undercover FBI informant. He wore body wires and placed ceiling cameras in his offices, and he was eventually credited with more than 30 Mafia convictions, including a crime-family head and associates from multiple international families.
For his cooperation, the Department of Justice and the FBI assured him he would avoid any significant jail time - or so they said.
Here, Blutrich tells it all: recording armed gangsters in the act of committing felonies, stealthily evading discovery, living with death threats, revealing long-covered-up celebrity doings, enduring a psychotic break from the pressures, and losing everything in his life in the name of earning redemption.
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- darius ley
- 26-09-21
Great listen
Thoroughly enjoyed, great story from beginning to end. What a life, fair play to the man.
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- Joe
- 28-04-22
Well worth it.
Fantastic in every way ! An amazing insight into the workings of FBI informers. Very enjoyable.
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- Gary Bellamy
- 15-08-22
Fascinating
What a story! What an unimaginable outcome!
Guaranteed to cause palms to both tingle with anticipation & perspire in trepidation!
A definite movie candidate!
l enjoyed the protagonist's narration very much.
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- Sallyanne McCrory
- 27-01-23
Really enjoyed this book
What a fascinating story this was. I just randomly chose it to listen to and was pleased I did.
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- nx
- 02-12-22
Great read
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This is much more than a another story about the mafia. This is part New York history, part the story of a victim of the mafia (the tale never told), part FBI infiltrator, part mafia, part the legal system in regards informants. This makes it an original story that is worth listening too for a very wide audience.
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- Nigel R Benson
- 01-12-22
Stunning
I won't spoil the plot, but how Michael retained his sanity through this whole process is mind-blowing. He is a true gentleman who is also an excellent narrator of his own book. Despite numerous and very high-level trials and tribulations, he reads with a certain degree of wit and humour which only the best of people could summon up in the circumstances. He comes across as likable, interesting, personable, and somebody I would very much like to meet and have dinner with. Michael, I'm sorry that you were so badly done to and I wish you all the very best in the future. Thank you for the most brilliant audio recording of a brilliant life story.
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- Kindle Customer
- 05-07-23
Excellent listen
One of the best booked I’ve ever listened to, there wasn’t a boring word in the entire book
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- Ludwig van El
- 08-10-21
Lived it!
Splendid read by the author, in his Noo Yowk accent. Adds lots of authenticity.
All these years of snitching for the feds, risking his life, and all he got was an entertaining surobiography. If only drugs weren't illegal, then the maffia would not be so powerful.
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- sye burnside
- 13-07-22
Good story
this was a great book and awesome narration. I would recommend it. well done guys
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- Lee
- 19-09-17
Brilliant, a must listen!
A truly amazing story, read by the author with superb skill and humour. A real disappointment that it came to an end.
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