Mr 10 Percent: The Suburban Dad Who Fleeced Global Soccer

Chameleon

Audiochuck | Campside Media

Documentary, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, True Crime

4.5 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

He rode a mobility scooter through Central Park with a parrot on his shoulder. He also helped pull off one of the biggest financial scams in sports history. This is Chuck Blazer, the flamboyant soccer bureaucrat turned FBI informant whose corruption helped reveal criminal activity at FIFA — the organization responsible for world soccer, including the World Cup — from the inside.

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0:00.0	Camp site media.
0:05.1	Hello?
0:06.2	What is the, what do you want me to say?
0:08.6	Oh, it's just my.
0:10.4	Camelian.
0:11.3	Camelian Weekly.
0:12.9	Oh.
0:14.8	Chuck Blazer was either going to or coming from dinner at a Manhattan Steakhouse when it happened.
0:22.4	Whichever it was, the large and rumpled 66-year-old who looked like an undercover Santa Claus was on the sidewalk outside
0:27.8	Trump Tower, where he had two apartments. When agents from the FBI and IRS approached and asked
0:34.3	to speak with him, Blazer suggested that his girlfriend, a former soap actress, go upstairs, and then agreed to
0:41.3	meet the agents in the atrium of the towering glass apartment building on Fifth Avenue.
0:46.4	Chuck Blazer, to this point, had managed to construct and lead one of the most outlandish
0:50.8	lives in global sports. He had, through some combination of luck, opportunity,
0:56.2	and scheming, amassed tremendous power over American soccer, a power that he used, in turn,
1:02.3	to amass a lavish lifestyle built in part on unpaid taxes and amex points. And it's those taxes
1:09.0	that got Blazer into this particular predicament, right around
1:12.3	Thanksgiving of 2011. It's always the taxes. And they say, you know, look, buddy, you haven't
1:19.5	paid taxes for many years and we know it. And you can sort of do it our way or the hard way, I guess,
1:24.8	really. And he more or less immediately agrees to
1:27.6	cooperate. This is Ken Bensinger, a New York Times reporter who was, at that time, working for
1:32.9	BuzzFeed. Ken ultimately talked to the agents who put this offer on the table, an offer that
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