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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.
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Mary Papenfuss is a veteran journalist who has worked as a reporter or editor for the New York Daily News, the New York Post, the Associated Press in San Francisco, People magazine's London bureau, and Salon. Currently, she is an editor at KCET Link TV. She covered the murder trial of Modesto salesman Scott Peterson, who was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, Laci, for the New York Daily News.
