|
one in a while the stars align and the interests of the US converge with unadulterated goodness
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:19
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 16, 2024 22:54 |
|
|
CubanMissile posted:All they had to do was not award the World Cup to the most obvious bribe country possible and these assholes could have made a killing for eons to come. The best best case scenario for me is if FIFA winds up taking the World Cup away from Qatar and Qatar decides to spill the beans and take down the entire ExCo. At this point it seems like the US probably has dirt on each and every one of them but doesn't feel confident charging anyone but those with the most contacts actually in the US.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:20
|
|
|
The USA saves soccer after all. Makes you think.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:28
|
|
|
Boy, FIFA's internal ethics committee's faces are sure gonna be red when they realize all this corruption happened right under their noses!
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:31
|
|
|
I won't start celebrating until they arrest Blatter, but it's a start. Thanks America, glad that we can count on you again. 
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:36
|
|
|
gently caress the Champions League Final this is quickly turning into the greatest football-related event we'll see in 2015.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:40
|
|
|
Nice one, america!
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:42
|
|
|
lol at anyone who thinks this will change anything, all of the power is consolidated in europe and you'd be a fool to think that blatter and the true elites within the organization didn't have themselves legally isolated from charges. it's just a long jail sentence for a few of the most obvious cronies and further bad PR for FIFA, but we can see from their public ostensible endorsement of slave labor that they don't really give a poo poo.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:45
|
|
|
I'm glad of it
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:46
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:46
|
|
|
straight up brolic posted:lol at anyone who thinks this will change anything, all of the power is consolidated in europe and you'd be a fool to think that blatter and the true elites within the organization didn't have themselves legally isolated from charges. What I'm hoping in pure prime time show fashion is that they'll offer these people deals to give the Americans enough dirt on Blatter to prosecute him, but then again I'm a retard.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:47
|
|
|
from the other thread lol
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:47
|
|
|
straight up brolic posted:lol at anyone who thinks this will change anything, all of the power is consolidated in europe and you'd be a fool to think that blatter and the true elites within the organization didn't have themselves legally isolated from charges. I dunno, Commebol is a very large association that has a lot of power with regards to elections. Much like africa is full of loving easily bribed countries. You take away the easy votes and then things start to get a bit more difficult to bribe your way through. The damage will also come from the fact some of these guys were about to be part of the executive committee, or indeed were already serving on it. Further criminalises blatter by association.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:49
|
|
|
This was a nice thing to wake up to.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:51
|
|
|
Agreed.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:51
|
|
|
serious gaylord posted:I dunno, Commebol is a very large association that has a lot of power with regards to elections. Much like africa is full of loving easily bribed countries. You take away the easy votes and then things start to get a bit more difficult to bribe your way through. Whatever happened to Mayne-Nicholls's candidacy after all? I thought he was one of the few Conmebol officials who didn't look as corrupt.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:51
|
|
|
Things are happening, I'm shocked. Even if all that happens is the USA are kicked out of FIFA and have to play in that bootleg world cup with the likes of Monaco and the Federated States of Micronesia it's still a positive outcome.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:52
|
|
I can't get enough of are Dan
|
HJB posted:Things are happening, I'm shocked. Even if all that happens is the USA are kicked out of FIFA and have to play in that bootleg world cup with the likes of Monaco and the Federated States of Micronesia it's still a positive outcome. We won't really mind.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:53
|
|
|
serious gaylord posted:I dunno, Commebol is a very large association that has a lot of power with regards to elections. Much like africa is full of loving easily bribed countries. You take away the easy votes and then things start to get a bit more difficult to bribe your way through. i guess my cynicism is just that there's no like alternative choice out there that is fully about the advancement of the game or fairness or justice. The people that get into this 'non-profit' line of work are all corrupt; one would assume that an equally bribeable person will rise up in their stead.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:54
|
|
|
quote:Details of the FBI investigation which led to today’s arrests emerged in November last year via The New York Daily News - headline “Soccer Rat!” - which claimed Chuck Blazer, the former Fifa executive turned FBI informant, had used a bugging device to record meetings with his Fifa colleagues at the London 2012 Olympics.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:54
|
|
|
straight up brolic posted:lol at anyone who thinks this will change anything, all of the power is consolidated in europe and you'd be a fool to think that blatter and the true elites within the organization didn't have themselves legally isolated from charges. Clearly you're unfamiliar with the institution of plea bargaining. I assure you, it is supper effective. Especially when it comes to white collar crime. Unless Blatter has death squads on speed dial, this is far from over.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:54
|
|
|
advanced statsman posted:Whatever happened to Mayne-Nicholls's candidacy after all? I thought he was one of the few Conmebol officials who didn't look as corrupt.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:55
|
|
|
However poo poo the US are at football, they are far from the worst and it'd be a shame to see them leave their spot to the likes of… Trinidad & Tobago? I don't think FIFA will suspend their membership anyway, that'd be lost revenues for nothing.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:55
|
|
|
BBC reporting alleged bribes totaling 100 million dollars. Holy poo poo the Justice Department is going to go balls deep on this
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:56
|
|
|
Sepp Blatter does sound like a lovely Star Wars extended universe character
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:56
|
|
|
This is the real reason for the scooter, so he could go pette his cattes. Walking would get to be a hassle. edit: also he fat
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:56
|
|
|
Chuck Blazer and the Pussy Palace
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:58
|
|
|
mackintosh posted:Clearly you're unfamiliar with the institution of plea bargaining. I assure you, it is supper effective. Especially when it comes to white collar crime. Unless Blatter has death squads on speed dial, this is far from over. Again, I'm sure that he considered the possibility of this occurring.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:58
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:59
|
|
|
Can't wait to see the courtroom footage, the Bushwick chapter of the American Outlaws at the ready with their song sheets, the capo gives the signal for the Judge Wapner themed tifo to unfold across the jury box...
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 08:59
|
|
|
serious gaylord posted:I dunno, Commebol is a very large association that has a lot of power with regards to elections. Much like africa is full of loving easily bribed countries. You take away the easy votes and then things start to get a bit more difficult to bribe your way through. CONMEBOL is the smallest association in terms of FIFA votes... only 10 members.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 09:02
|
|
|
The arrest of Concacaf’s president Jeffrey Webb comes a month after Blatter’s visit to the confederation’s congress in the Bahamas. The event made headlines for a speech by one of the delegates in support of Blatter’s re-election: the Dominican Republic FA head Osiris Guzman, back in the game after his ban in the 2011 Concacaf bribery scandal, comparing Blatter to Moses, Jesus and Nelson Mandela. The Turks and Caicos FA vice-president Olive Smith called for delegates to vote for Sepp “en bloc, to continue this mutually beneficial journey”, and Webb summed up by telling the hall: “Concacaf is – more than ever – united by one vision.” At this same congress there were literally 3-5 bodyguards posted at the doors to each bathroom, entrance, and exit to make sure no outsiders saw what was going on.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 09:07
|
|
|
Crazy Ted posted:comparing Blatter to Moses, Jesus and Nelson Mandela Moses walked through the Red Sea, Jesus walked on water, Mandela walked with people of all colours; Blatter can't even walk across a stage.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 09:17
|
|
|
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGQaH3-LK54
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 09:17
|
|
|
That's rather good news to wake up to. God bless America.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 09:30
|
|
|
straight up brolic posted:I'm not the internation law guy, but *from the movies* if Blatter isolated himself from all of the actual paper trail and there aren't records of him saying elect this guy and pay him $x regarding money going into or out of the United States, what jurisdiction does the US have to prosecute him? I'm sure he has. I'm also sure the people they just picked up will be doing their absolute best to get an immunity deal in exchange for Blatter's head. They'll come up with something soon enough. FIFA isn't a country and football fans everywhere hate it. It's not like there is going to be an international backlash if they indite him on a bogus charge.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 09:32
|
|
|
Hmmm, turns out that American imperialism... is good?
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 09:37
|
|
|
Update - Swiss Federal Office of Justice opens criminal proceedings over the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 football world cups
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 09:44
|
|
|
I'm loving this.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 09:44
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 16, 2024 22:54 |
|
|
excuse me lady posted:Update - Swiss Federal Office of Justice opens criminal proceedings over the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 football world cups I'm proper loving this wow.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2015 09:45
|
|