Chuck Blazer's Unlikely Rise from Soccer Coach to FIFA Official-Turned-FBI Informant

The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 22, 2016

Mary Papenfuss, former editor at the New York Post, the New York Daily News and Associated Press and Teri Thompson, a former top editor at the New York Daily News, reveal how Chuck Blazer rose from coaching youth soccer in Queens to the upper echelons of international soccer where he managed to quietly steal upwards of $20 million from FIFA. In American Huckster: How Chuck Blazer Got Rich From-and Sold Out-the Most Powerful Cabal in World Sports, they go inside the FIFA soccer scandal and explain how this lifestyle came at a cost, leaving Blazer with one option in order to save himself — become an FBI informant. Mary Lynn Blanks, Blazer's former girlfriend who became a source for Papenfuss and Thompson, also joins the conversation.  

 

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