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Call Me Commander audiobook
- By: Daniel M. Freed
- Narrator: Marc Vietor
- Category: True Crime, White Collar Crime
- Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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Call Me Commander Audiobook Summary
When Lieutenant Commander Bobby Thompson surfaced in Tampa in 1998, it was as if he had fallen from the sky, providing no hint of his past life. Eleven years later, St. Petersburg Times investigative reporter Jeff Testerman visited the rundown duplex Thompson used as his home and the epicenter of his sixty-thousand-member charity, the US Navy Veterans Association. But something was amiss.
Bobby Thompson’s charity’s addresses were just maildrops, his members nonexistent, and his past a black hole. Yet, somehow, the commander had stood for photos with President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain, and other political luminaries. The USNVA, it turned out, was a phony charity where Thompson used pricey telemarketers, savvy lawyers, and political allies to swindle tens of millions from well-meaning donors.
After Testerman’s story revealed that the nonprofit was a sham, the commander went on the run. US Marshals took up the hunt in 2011 and found themselves searching for an unnamed identity thief who they likened to a real-life Jason Bourne. When finally captured in 2012, Thompson was carrying multiple IDs and a key to a locker that held nearly $1 million in cash.
But, who was he? Eventually, investigators discovered he was John Donald Cody, a Harvard Law School graduate and former US Army intelligence officer who had been wanted since the 1980s on theft charges and for questioning in an espionage probe.
As Cody’s decades as a fugitive came to an end, he claimed his charity was run at the behest of the Central Intelligence Agency. After reporting on the story for CNBC’s American Greed in 2014, Daniel M. Freed dug into Cody’s backstory–uncovering new information about his intelligence background and the evolution of his con.
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Call Me Commander Audiobook Narrator
Marc Vietor is the narrator of Call Me Commander audiobook that was written by Daniel M. Freed
Marc Vietor, an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator, is an actor working with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Sundance Theatre Lab, Ravinia Festival, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old Globe, and many others. His film and television credits include Asylum Seekers, Law & Order, and Onion News Network. He has narrated many books for Audible.com, including the award-winning 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. He is a graduate of Yale University and The Juilliard School.
About the Author(s) of Call Me Commander
Daniel M. Freed is the author of Call Me Commander
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Call Me Commander Full Details
| Narrator | Marc Vietor |
| Length | 13 hours 42 minutes |
| Author | Daniel M. Freed |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 23, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9798212173124 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Call Me Commander is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is True Crime, White Collar Crime
Additional info
The publisher of the Call Me Commander is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9798212173124.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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