Malcolm Glazer was the patriarch of the Glazer family who own both Manchester United of the English Premier League and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL. The Glazers are very much polarizing figures; with the late Malcolm Glazer one of the primary targets of the backlash. For the last years of his life he was an extremely unpopular figure among Man United supporters.
Documents, newly released today, reveal that the American Federal Bureau of Investigation was looking into the death threats and other menacing phone calls that Malcolm Glazer received while he was in the process of taking over Manchester United.
The Associated Press first published the report, and it was picked up by the BBC.
One threat involved a man with a British accent who made menacing calls saying he wished Mr Glazer was “dead”.
No-one was charged as the source of the threats could not be identified.
The FBI released more than 120 pages of records, including details of the threats, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Associated Press news agency.
The papers show that on 12 May 2005 – the day Mr Glazer became the majority shareholder at Old Trafford – a man with a British accent called the headquarters of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the American football franchise also owned by the Glazer family.
He ended the call by saying he wished Mr Glazer was dead
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