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The Resource Red card : how the U.S. blew the whistle on the world's biggest sports scandal, Ken Besinger, (electronic resource)

Red card : how the U.S. blew the whistle on the world's biggest sports scandal, Ken Besinger, (electronic resource)

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"This is the definitive, shocking account of the highest-profile corruption case of recent years, spearheaded by U.S. investigators, involving dozens of countries, and implicating nearly every aspect of the world's most popular sport, soccer, including its biggest event, the World Cup. The case began small, boosted by an IRS agent's review of an American soccer official's tax returns. But that humble investigation soon developed into a huge international corruption scandal that crossed continents and reached the highest levels of soccer's world governing body, FIFA. In Red Card, Ken Bensinger examines the case, and the personalities behind it, in vivid detail. There's Chuck Blazer, a high-living soccer dad who ascended to the highest ranks of the sport while creaming millions from its coffers; Jack Warner, a Trinidadian soccer official whose lust for power was matched only by his boundless greed; and the sport's most powerful man, FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who held on to his position at any cost even as international soccer rotted from the inside out. Remarkably, this corruption existed for decades before a determined team of American law enforcement officials began to secretly dig, finally revealing that nearly every aspect of the planet's favorite sport was corrupted by bribes, kickbacks, fraud, and money laundering. Not even the World Cup, the most-watched sporting event in history, was safe from the thick web of corruption, as powerful FIFA officials extracted their bribes at every turn. Bensinger has spent nearly three years researching and writing Red Card. He has pored over documents and interviewed key figures in the U.S. and abroad. This is the only book that tells the full story from inception to conviction, and reveals, for the first time, how the biggest scandal in sports came about."--Dust jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Extent
1 online resource (xv, 349 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
Contents
  • Berryman
  • Tickling the wire
  • "Have you ever taken a bribe?"
  • A guy from Queens
  • The vote
  • Jack vs. Chuck
  • Port of Spain
  • A made man
  • RICO
  • Blazer's money
  • The flip
  • The crown jewel
  • Queen for a day
  • The king is dead, long live the king
  • Faster, higher, stronger
  • My way
  • The pact
  • The Warner brothers
  • "A sad and sorry tale"
  • "Leave us out of this"
  • I am not your friend
  • One is silver, the other is gold
  • Trust and betrayal
  • "All of us go to prison"
  • Payback
  • Things fall apart
  • Takedown
  • "A great day for football"
  • A zealous advocate
  • Plus ça change...
  • The trial
Isbn
9781501133923
Link
http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=372&titleID=3718083
Instance
Label
Red card : how the U.S. blew the whistle on the world's biggest sports scandal
Title
Red card
Title remainder
how the U.S. blew the whistle on the world's biggest sports scandal
Statement of responsibility
Ken Besinger
Title variation
Red card
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"This is the definitive, shocking account of the highest-profile corruption case of recent years, spearheaded by U.S. investigators, involving dozens of countries, and implicating nearly every aspect of the world's most popular sport, soccer, including its biggest event, the World Cup. The case began small, boosted by an IRS agent's review of an American soccer official's tax returns. But that humble investigation soon developed into a huge international corruption scandal that crossed continents and reached the highest levels of soccer's world governing body, FIFA. In Red Card, Ken Bensinger examines the case, and the personalities behind it, in vivid detail. There's Chuck Blazer, a high-living soccer dad who ascended to the highest ranks of the sport while creaming millions from its coffers; Jack Warner, a Trinidadian soccer official whose lust for power was matched only by his boundless greed; and the sport's most powerful man, FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who held on to his position at any cost even as international soccer rotted from the inside out. Remarkably, this corruption existed for decades before a determined team of American law enforcement officials began to secretly dig, finally revealing that nearly every aspect of the planet's favorite sport was corrupted by bribes, kickbacks, fraud, and money laundering. Not even the World Cup, the most-watched sporting event in history, was safe from the thick web of corruption, as powerful FIFA officials extracted their bribes at every turn. Bensinger has spent nearly three years researching and writing Red Card. He has pored over documents and interviewed key figures in the U.S. and abroad. This is the only book that tells the full story from inception to conviction, and reveals, for the first time, how the biggest scandal in sports came about."--Dust jacket
Cataloging source
TEFOD
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Bensinger, Ken
Dewey number
796.334
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
GV943.55.F44
LC item number
B46 2018eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Fédération internationale de football association
  • Soccer
  • Soccer
  • Criminal investigation
Label
Red card : how the U.S. blew the whistle on the world's biggest sports scandal, Ken Besinger, (electronic resource)
Link
http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=372&titleID=3718083
Instantiates
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Berryman -- Tickling the wire -- "Have you ever taken a bribe?" -- A guy from Queens -- The vote -- Jack vs. Chuck -- Port of Spain -- A made man -- RICO -- Blazer's money -- The flip -- The crown jewel -- Queen for a day -- The king is dead, long live the king -- Faster, higher, stronger -- My way -- The pact -- The Warner brothers -- "A sad and sorry tale" -- "Leave us out of this" -- I am not your friend -- One is silver, the other is gold -- Trust and betrayal -- "All of us go to prison" -- Payback -- Things fall apart -- Takedown -- "A great day for football" -- A zealous advocate -- Plus ça change... -- The trial
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Extent
1 online resource (xv, 349 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781501133923
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations.
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
4259be5f-8f19-4c62-81da-ef34d086b202
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1040228180
Label
Red card : how the U.S. blew the whistle on the world's biggest sports scandal, Ken Besinger, (electronic resource)
Link
http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=372&titleID=3718083
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Berryman -- Tickling the wire -- "Have you ever taken a bribe?" -- A guy from Queens -- The vote -- Jack vs. Chuck -- Port of Spain -- A made man -- RICO -- Blazer's money -- The flip -- The crown jewel -- Queen for a day -- The king is dead, long live the king -- Faster, higher, stronger -- My way -- The pact -- The Warner brothers -- "A sad and sorry tale" -- "Leave us out of this" -- I am not your friend -- One is silver, the other is gold -- Trust and betrayal -- "All of us go to prison" -- Payback -- Things fall apart -- Takedown -- "A great day for football" -- A zealous advocate -- Plus ça change... -- The trial
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Extent
1 online resource (xv, 349 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781501133923
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations.
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
4259be5f-8f19-4c62-81da-ef34d086b202
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1040228180

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