Annnnnd... though not as convincing an evidentiary link, "The cupcake Queen" looks to be a close friend of Tonya Mezrich's, if it's not Tonya herself. Here's Tonya talking about uniforms for the same Boston-area Sweet Cupcakes shop as in that book review (it's the name of the shop). Only takes like five minutes to find these connections....
At least they're happily blatant about it. Soroff already admitted he was cross-pimping for Mezrich, since Mezrich provided a blurb for Soroff's book.
I get it. Fuck this guy and his book, its half truths at best.
But as far as having friends/family come out and support him... it would be no different then if any one of us wrote a book and asked for support. If there was proof he paid some people or hired a firm to do this I'd get the "outrage".
FYI, benmezrich.com is registered to Barry Rosenberg, his (presumably paid) PR agent.
Here's Barry Rosenberg's review of The Accidental Billionaires:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1UJEXVY09O06S
"sweetpea" is Tonya Mezrich's Amazon.com account. She deleted her fake review of The Accidental Billionaires, but not before I put it before the First Circuit Court of Appeals:
http://www.aarongreenspan.com/filing...nrehearing.pdf
(See page 29 of the PDF if you have any doubts.)
Hey, Aaron, two questions:
1) Can I excerpt some stuff from that PDF linked above for a blog post somewhere?
2) I tried to create an account at that legal-records site of yours, but unfortunately all of my e-mail accounts are from major providers, and not the .edu or .gov you seem to need to verify. Any suggestions?
Court documents are in the public domain. You can do whatever you like with them, and you don't even need my permission (which I would happily grant in this case).
If you send your e-mail to help@plainsite.org I can add it to our database.
I don't believe it's any kind of best seller at the moment.
Look at Amazon.
It has 78 reviews, many of which were from the poker community.
Amazon is a huge site, and a big selling book would have thousands of reviews.
78 reviews suggests that this book is falling flat.
Wow, look at this review from "Mike Reed":
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1PKINL...cm_cr_rdp_perm
Mike Reed is reggiman/STUCKINPGH, former Donkdown owner.
There is another Mike Reed in poker (more of a blogger, writes for Pokerati), so I suppose it could also be him.
Anyway, this guy gave the book 5 stars and seems to be completely unaware of the truth. I guess it's possible this could happen if the person does not actively follow the scandal news.
I should text him and ask if this was him.
The most likely reason is not that the 10% of the poker community that knows it misses the mark in terms of facts has successfully influenced the general public away from buying it. Instead it supports the theory that the mainstream public just doesn't give a rats ass about poker/gambling history. You can be sure that if Mezrich writes a storybook about the Kardashians the American public will eat it up.
Heh. This seeming Boston-area friend of Mezrich's couldn't even get the title right.
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video has 42 views and was uploaded june 14 so im guessing it hasnt been posted yet
Last edited by sinner; 07-10-2013 at 03:25 PM.
If I'm out of line here by all means delete my post but if anyone wants this book it's been leaked and I found some links for it:
http://hugefiles.net/ext6er0wsvmm/Be....mobi.rar.html
or
http://rapidgator.net/file/e20265b9f....mobi.rar.html
You will need to unrar the file and have a mobi reader if viewing on PC which their are several free ones out there just go google free mobi reader.
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