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After years of trying, it looks like America is finally very interested in soccer. Or at least the multi-million dollar bribes that FIFA arranged on U.S. soil using U.S. banks. Oops.The Wall Street Journal posted:U.S. Prepares Criminal Indictment Alleging Corruption at Soccer Body FIFA Don't know if this is D&Dworthy or not, but I guess y'all can talk about how loving hilariously corrupt and awful FIFA is, what with their eyes wide open involvement with literal slave labor in Qatar and elsewhere.
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# ? May 27, 2015 08:02 |
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And here's the official Swiss Bureau of Justice statement:quote:By order of the Federal Office of Justice (FOJ), six soccer officials were arrested in Zurich today (Wednesday) and detained pending extradition. The US authorities suspect them of having received bribes totaling in the USD millions. Eight figure fraud on U.S. soil and it's doubtful any U.S. official saw a penny of it. Looks like FIFA tried to call the tune without paying the piper.
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# ? May 27, 2015 08:07 |
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Best thing America has done for Europe since the Marshall Plan.
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# ? May 27, 2015 08:25 |
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# ? May 27, 2015 09:10 |
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If I were the American Minister of Justice I would indict all soccer players for being wincing dramatic homos. The worst parts of hockey (low score, trash tiebreaker mechanism), basketball (foul baiting, ref nagging) and the Raiders (fans) rolled into a single 4 hour daydrinking event. FIFA will roll around yelping until it's obvious no one is paying attention, then appeal to some authority who will tell them to gently caress off, and then sulk back into business as usual. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? May 27, 2015 09:21 |
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Aliquid posted:Best thing America has done for Europe since the Marshall Plan. does it again
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# ? May 27, 2015 09:23 |
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This Jacket Is Me posted:If I were the American Minister of Justice I would indict all soccer players for being wincing dramatic homos. The worst parts of hockey (low score, trash tiebreaker mechanism), basketball (foul baiting, ref nagging) and the Raiders (fans) rolled into a single 4 hour daydrinking event. FIFA will roll around yelping until it's obvious no one is paying attention, then appeal to some authority who will tell them to gently caress off, and then sulk back into business as usual. As I read this post "God Bless the USA" started playing in the background
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# ? May 27, 2015 09:25 |
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This Jacket Is Me posted:If I were the American Minister of Justice I would indict all soccer players for being wincing dramatic homos. The worst parts of hockey (low score, trash tiebreaker mechanism), basketball (foul baiting, ref nagging) and the Raiders (fans) rolled into a single 4 hour daydrinking event. FIFA will roll around yelping until it's obvious no one is paying attention, then appeal to some authority who will tell them to gently caress off, and then sulk back into business as usual. oh no not homos
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# ? May 27, 2015 09:27 |
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Aliquid posted:Best thing America has done for Europe since the Marshall Plan. Please let them hang 'em high enough so we can see it from our side of the pond.
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# ? May 27, 2015 09:30 |
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They are just going to start conducting their bribes in China or something using foreign banks. Another member of the Obama administration killing American jobs.
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# ? May 27, 2015 09:32 |
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can we arrest half the IOC next please
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# ? May 27, 2015 09:42 |
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This is honestly bigger than I would have expected:Swiss Attorney General's Office posted:Bern, 27.05.2015 - The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has opened criminal proceedings against persons unknown on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and of money laundering in connection with the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 Football World Cups. In the course of said proceedings, electronic data and documents were seized today at FIFA’s head office in Zurich. https://www.news.admin.ch/message/index.html?lang=en&msg-id=57391 I'm surprised they are going right after the World Cup bids, thought they would have had enough of a buffer around that. Wow.
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# ? May 27, 2015 09:59 |
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Live stream of a FIFA press conference in response to this - http://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/videos/y=2015/m=5/video=fifa-press-conference-live-may-27th-2609113.html
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# ? May 27, 2015 10:02 |
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Quick update for those of you who don't know why FIFA is awful and why Sepp Blatter is awful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I
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# ? May 27, 2015 10:06 |
Next Week Tonight is going to be insane this week with the Duggar stuff and this.
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# ? May 27, 2015 10:22 |
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shrike82 posted:Live stream of a FIFA press conference in response to this - "This is great news for FIFA."
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# ? May 27, 2015 10:32 |
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"The damaged party is FIFA"
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# ? May 27, 2015 10:34 |
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What's he referring to with the 18th of November thing and turning stuff over to the government?
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# ? May 27, 2015 10:37 |
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http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/nine-fifa-officials-and-five-corporate-executives-indicted-racketeering-conspiracy-and Hmm, wonder if they turned on him. quote:The Convicted Individuals and Corporations
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# ? May 27, 2015 10:43 |
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I sort of want to put money on Sepp Blatter somehow surviving this, too the man is the cockroach of football
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:06 |
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Oh my, it looks like a RICO lawsuit. quote:The US Department of Justice statement names nine Fifa officials and five “corporate executives” who have been indicted for “racketeering conspiracy and corruption”. The statement lists the individuals as: I know it's a US-based suit and that's the zone and all, but lmao at all those Concafaf dudes on the list.
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:15 |
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What's a 'RICO' lawsuit?
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:18 |
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Bob James posted:They are just going to start conducting their bribes in China or something using foreign banks. Another member of the Obama administration killing American jobs. No that's the problem, America didn't get the World Cup and Americans didn't get any bribes. That's where they hosed up!
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:20 |
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Pissflaps posted:What's a 'RICO' lawsuit?
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Pissflaps posted:What's a 'RICO' lawsuit? A Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO Act) suit. Fine points be here, but the most salient bit is: quote:The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually commit the crime personally.[1] It's a tool mainly used in mafia and organized crime cases, because the 'bosses' very rarely order anything done face-to-face but use cut-outs. RICO is a pretty strong tool and FIFA should be pretty scared, especially if they've got a high informant.
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:21 |
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Pissflaps posted:What's a 'RICO' lawsuit? Watch the Better Call Saul episode when they take a case to RICO. Basically it means poo poo hit the fan as hard as it possibly can. Or read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act edit: efb awesome-express fucked around with this message at 11:25 on May 27, 2015 |
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Pissflaps posted:What's a 'RICO' lawsuit? It means the Scales of Justice are going to be rammed up your rear end.
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:32 |
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So America finally found a way to destroy soccer once and for all?
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:34 |
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MC Nietzche posted:So America finally found a way to destroy soccer once and for all? if they do this it's going to become more powerful that they can possibly imagine.
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:36 |
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Bob James posted:It means the Scales of Justice are going to be rammed up your rear end. I was trying to find the best way to put this, but this is just gorgeous. It's for when the US Federal Government decides not only does it want to gently caress you in the rear end, it wants to permanently break your watertight seal.
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:37 |
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MC Nietzche posted:So America finally found a way to destroy soccer once and for all? We're saving soccer.
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:45 |
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The sick thing about this is that if FIFA were an American organization they would be politically protected and considered 'TBTF'.
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# ? May 27, 2015 12:00 |
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Ahahaha, results of Transparency International and Football Addicts (some kind of football app) opinion poll of 35.000 football fans: Following FIFA World Cup corruption scandals, should Sepp Blatter be standing again for President of FIFA? Do you have confidence in FIFA?
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# ? May 27, 2015 12:00 |
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Junior G-man posted:Jeffrey Webb: Current Fifa vice-president and executive committee member, Concacaf president, Caribbean Football Union (CFU) executive committee member and Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA) president. Isn't that the guy was going to be elected President of FIFA next Friday? Any news yet if he'll step down beforehand or not?
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# ? May 27, 2015 12:02 |
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As far as I understand it, ill-gotten money shared in a pot puts everyone with access to it open to prosecution. E: beat by a mile. Miltank fucked around with this message at 12:19 on May 27, 2015 |
# ? May 27, 2015 12:16 |
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Please tell me that Qatar and Russia will have the World Cup taken away. That would be so loving funny.
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# ? May 27, 2015 12:33 |
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Dr. Tough posted:Please tell me that Qatar and Russia will have the World Cup taken away. That would be so loving funny. The FIFA stooge at their press event said that the Qatar and Russia Cups are still on. But he also said that FIFA was grateful for the FBI's 'intervention' today, as it forms a part of FIFA's larger 'goal to eradicate corruption'. So uhhh However: quote:In a separate move, Swiss authorities opened criminal proceedings over the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. A statement from the Swiss attorney general said they seized electronic data from Fifa’s headquarters in Zurich and opened criminal proceedings against individuals on “the suspicion of criminal mismanagement and of money laundering in connection with the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 football World Cups”.
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# ? May 27, 2015 12:48 |
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OniPanda posted:No that's the problem, America didn't get the World Cup and Americans didn't get any bribes. That's where they hosed up! Offering the US the World Cup as part of your bribe is like offering a Vegan a nice juicy steak to sweeten the deal. Dr. Tough posted:Please tell me that Qatar and Russia will have the World Cup taken away. That would be so loving funny. So you're saying Obama's playing some 12 Dimensional chess over both the Ukraine and the Middle East.
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# ? May 27, 2015 12:55 |
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But can we use this as causus belli versus Europe?
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# ? May 27, 2015 12:56 |
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Junior G-man posted:Oh my, it looks like a RICO lawsuit.
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