Michael D. Blutrich

Source: BenBella Books (links added). Michael Blutrich is a graduate from Georgetown University Law Center, a successful gay entrepreneur, and an unlikely FBI informant.

In a previous life, he was a founding partner of a prestigious Park Avenue law firm, a successful attorny, the owner of an HBO boxing promotion enterprise, an acclaimed radio talk show host, and the original owner of SCORES, New York’s most iconic and lucrative gentleman’s clubs. After distinguishing himself as an extraordinary undercover cooperator credited with almost forty convinctions of mafia defendants, Blutrich was unexpectedly sentenced, over government oppostion, to more than thirteen years of imprisonment in the Federal Witness Security Program. Today he lives and

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