Moldea,D. Interference. 1989
Moldea, Dan E. Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional
Football. New York: William Morrow, 1989. 512 pages.
If football is the American religion, and the NFL its Vatican, then
Dan Moldea is a heretic and excommunication is already in progress. Moldea
is fighting back with a $10 million libel suit against the New York Times
for its review of this book by sportswriter Gerald Eskenazi, an NFL
mouthpiece.
Moldea chronicles the long-standing relationship between the NFL and
organized crime, which has resulted in no fewer than 26 past and present
NFL team owners with documented ties to either gambling or the syndicate,
evidence of 70 fixed professional games, and the suppression of at least
50 law enforcement investigations of NFL corruption. This book also
offers an introduction to the world of betting lines, oddsmakers and
handicappers, bookmakers, and high-stakes gambling.
This is one of four books in NameBase by Dan Moldea, who has
specialized in organized crime investigations since 1974. His interest in
the Kennedy assassinations also continues; in 1990 he interviewed over 100
Los Angeles police officers, and concluded that more slugs were recovered
than could have fit in Sirhan's gun. Moldea lives in Washington, DC.
ISBN 0-688-08303-X
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