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Please just tell me that Tokyo Sexwale is going to be ok.
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serious gaylord posted:All the big sponsors will be replaced with Russian/Middle east equivalents. Have you seen where the ruble / oil is?
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May 27, 2015 11:41
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Besides football executives, the list includes “US and South American sports marketing executives who are alleged to have systematically paid and agreed to pay well over $150 million in bribes and kickbacks to obtain lucrative media and marketing rights to international soccer tournaments.” I'm fully expecting the amount of bribes to hit $300 million by the end of the day.
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May 27, 2015 11:41
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Friday afternoon will be when it really hits the fan. There must be loads of fifa members who are making GBS threads themselves now. Theres clearly a decision for maximum publicity impact in these charges. I still expect them to grab more people as soon as the votes over.
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May 27, 2015 11:44
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Should America do the IOC or the FIA next?
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May 27, 2015 11:46
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Issa Hayatou getting charged would probably be the most damaging for Blatter so lets hope that happens
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May 27, 2015 11:46
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Could a fellow American please fulfill the needful and do a comprehensive write up as to the FIFA ExCom, CONCACAF and the other confederations would be which respective houses in Game of Thrones?
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May 27, 2015 11:51
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What a lovely day.
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May 27, 2015 11:53
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Four have already pled guilty. They're almost assuredly rolling on everyone.
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May 27, 2015 11:54
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Teddybear posted:Four have already pled guilty. They're almost assuredly rolling on everyone.
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May 27, 2015 11:55
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AhahahahaThe Guardian posted:Among those on the charged list, 86-year-old Nicolás Leoz, the former Fifa executive and Conmebol president. Leoz - named in court in 2008 as having received bribes in Fifa’s unrelated ISL scandal - spoke in 2013 about the new allegations he faced related to his World Cup bid conduct: “A while ago the press in England were at it, now the German press do it. I don’t know. What is it that drives these people?” Yessssssssssssss it's so good, soooo gooodddd
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May 27, 2015 11:58
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reminder that RICO prosecutors are capable of dismantling criminal organisations by rolling people that have every reason to believe they'll get murdered if they testify, most of FIFA is done
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May 27, 2015 11:58
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God bless the United States of America.
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May 27, 2015 12:01
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Teddybear posted:Four have already pled guilty. They're almost assuredly rolling on everyone. Before the week's over the entire executive committee are gonna sing like loving canaries
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May 27, 2015 12:02
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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. Hahahaha FIFA is an organized crime syndicate and Blatter is the leader, all they need is the word that he gave the order or assistance to someone else committing crimes and he's done.
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May 27, 2015 12:02
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I'm liking this Law and Order new series
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May 27, 2015 12:05
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So a few corrupt types from countries where corruption is generally culturally accepted were arrested. What of it?
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May 27, 2015 12:05
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*webb, warner li and figueredo come in with everything for a HUGE party*
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May 27, 2015 12:07
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Greg Dyke posted:As one of the associations who nominated [presidential election challenger] Prince Ali it will not surprise you to learn that if the election for president goes ahead The FA will be voting for him. However, there must be a question mark over whether the election should take place in these circumstances. Clearly things are changing very quickly and our delegation to the Fifa congress in Zurich, which I am leading, will discuss the position and what we should do about it with our colleagues in Uefa when we meet tomorrow morning.
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May 27, 2015 12:07
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I can't believe this is actually happening.
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jyrka posted:Brazil could probably too.
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May 27, 2015 12:08
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St Evan Echoes posted:Haven't they turned at least one and possibly more of their WC stadiums into car parks? One is a bus depot or something, yeah
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HOTLANTA MAN posted:One is a bus depot or something, yeah Yeah it cost billions to organise but ~*the legacy*~
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May 27, 2015 12:12
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United Passions 2 is going to be a great movie.
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St Evan Echoes posted:Haven't they turned at least one and possibly more of their WC stadiums into car parks? They only finished one of them last month.
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May 27, 2015 12:16
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serious gaylord posted:They only finished one of them last month.
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May 27, 2015 12:18
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FIFA's only hope at this point is to bankrupt the FBI with the overtime and man hours they'll need to identify all of the corruption and bribery. There must be a couple of UEFA members making GBS threads it at the moment as well. I know England had 'friendlies' and 'development funds' go to Warner by way of Trindiad and Tobago, I don't doubt that it happened a lot elsewhere either. Look at the fine Rumminegge got for his forgotten watches, and how the tendrils of this are going to start reaching into the domestic club sphere as well. Thank god yanks hate football.
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May 27, 2015 12:23
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Total Meatlove posted:There must be a couple of UEFA members making GBS threads it at the moment as well. I know England had 'friendlies' and 'development funds' go to Warner by way of Trindiad and Tobago, I don't doubt that it happened a lot elsewhere either. Look at the fine Rumminegge got for his forgotten watches, and how the tendrils of this are going to start reaching into the domestic club sphere as well. The head of Australia's FA said publicly that our World Cup bid team paid $500,000 for a "new stadium in Trinidad" directly into Warner's personal bank account lmao They of course only mentioned it after he voted for Qatar anyway
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May 27, 2015 12:27
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Fifa is corrupt from top to bottom. No nation is guilt free, they've all been complicit in it at some point.
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May 27, 2015 12:28
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quote:Fifa welcomes actions that can help contribute to rooting out any wrongdoing in football ... We are pleased to see that the investigation is being energetically pursued for the good of football and believe that it will help to reinforce measures that Fifa has already taken.
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May 27, 2015 12:32
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I wonder at what point will the yanks take a step back as they realise the entire game of football is a bottomless well of corruption. The rabbit hole goes all the way down to conference level football worldwide. Good luck locking everyone up. I do hope they indict Blatter though. That oval office deserves it more than anyone else.
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May 27, 2015 12:32
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The Feds are just copying all the hard work FIFA has done to clean up corruption 
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May 27, 2015 12:33
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ICYMI the DoJ just got paid $11bio from a bunch of banks for fx rate rigging so they got cash to blow on a vanity project
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May 27, 2015 12:38
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It's just a pity that the English FA didn't have the balls to stop groveling to FIFA even after they were comprehensively screwed over with the World Cup bid
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May 27, 2015 12:39
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News Alert via BBC: FIFA announces relocation of world headquarters from Zurich to Pyongyang.
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Lol the Feds raided CONCACAF HQ in Miami this morning
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mackintosh posted:I wonder at what point will the yanks take a step back as they realise the entire game of football is a bottomless well of corruption. The rabbit hole goes all the way down to conference level football worldwide. Good luck locking everyone up. I do hope they indict Blatter though. That oval office deserves it more than anyone else. They don't give a poo poo about how deep it goes, as long as US banks were used in the laundering operations.
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My initial read of the situation is that FIFA will cooperate, some mid- and few high-level officials's heads will roll, and then it'll be back to business as usual. I'd love to be wrong, but corruption in soccer only gets so much traction in a DOJ/FBI with finite resources, and the cases will be closed way short of fans' expectations.
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Monday Bandele posted:It's just a pity that the English FA didn't have the balls to stop groveling to FIFA even after they were comprehensively screwed over with the World Cup bid They kind of do look a bit feckless. I am happy that the FBI might get to RICO FIFA. This was a good thing to wake up to.
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Shitshow posted:My initial read of the situation is that FIFA will cooperate, some mid- and few high-level officials's heads will roll, and then it'll be back to business as usual. Counterpoint, RICO charges are incredibly serious business, and let's not forget Bill Clinton was personally angry at the 2022 bid process. And any cooperation in a RICO case only makes more people go down. Most that haven't been arrested this go round will probably flee to a country with no extradition treaty and never face repercussions - they aren't dumb enough to congregate in one hotel again I think.
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