stickyfngrdboy posted:

Yes, very easily.

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188. Subsequently, Co-Conspirator #1 (i.e. chuck blazer) learned from the defendant JACK WARNER that high-ranking officials of FIFA, the South African government, and the South African bid committee, including Co-Conspirator #16, were prepared to arrange for the government of South Africa to pay $10 million to CFU to “support the African diaspora.” Co-Conspirator #1 understood the offer to be in exchange for the agreement of WARNER, Co-Conspirator #1, and Co-Conspirator #17 to all vote for South Africa, rather than Morocco, to host the 2010 World Cup. At the time, Co-Conspirator #17, like WARNER and Co-Conspirator #1, was a FIFA executive committee member. WARNER indicated that he had accepted the offer and told Co-Conspirator #1 that he would give a $1 million portion of the $10 million payment to Co-Conspirator #1.

189. In FIFA’s executive committee vote held on May 15, 2004, South Africa was selected over Morocco and Egypt to host the 2010 World Cup. The defendant JACK WARNER, Co-Conspirator #1, and Co-Conspirator #17 indicated that they voted for South Africa.

190. In the months and years after the vote, Co-Conspirator #1 periodically asked WARNER about the status of the $10 million payment.

191. At one point, Co-Conspirator #1 learned that the South Africans were unable to arrange for the payment to be made directly from government funds. Arrangements were thereafter made with FIFA officials to instead have the $10 million sent from FIFA – using funds that would otherwise have gone from FIFA to South Africa to support the World Cup - to CFU.

Lamont Cranston posted:

stickyfngrdboy posted:

Yes, very easily.

Lamont Cranston posted:

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199. Co-Conspirator #1 never received the balance of the promised $1 million payment.

triple sulk posted:

"This is the World Cup of Fraud and we're giving FIFA a red card" lmao

dex_sda posted:

How exactly? Any deal he would make that the US could get their hands on would be tainted by association to him.

He could run it in theory, in practice, nobody in FIFA will want him to any more.

Vertical Lime posted:

John Oliver was right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I

Cruel and Unusual posted:

I hope Blatter grows a beard and starts running FIFA by courier pigeon from Waziristan.

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215. On May 10, 2011, Co-Conspirator #7 addressed the [CFU] member associations regarding his candidacy, stating, among other things, that he was seeking their support in the June 1, 2011 FIFA presidential election. Following Co-Conspirator #7’s address, the defendant JACK WARNER advised the CFU officials that they could pick up a “gift” that afternoon at a conference room in the hotel.

216. During the afternoon of May 10, 2011, certain CFU officials, including an official of one of the member associations of a United States territory (“Official #1”), went to the appointed conference room, as directed by the defendant JACK WARNER. The officials were instructed by CFU staff members in the room to enter the room one at a time. Inside the room, CFU staff handed each official an envelope bearing the name of the member association that he represented. Inside each envelope was $40,000 in United States currency.

217. Prior to entering the conference room, Official #1 was advised that he must enter alone, and could not be accompanied by any other officials from his delegation. Upon receiving his envelope, Official #1 was directed by CFU staff to open it while in the conference room. Official #1 was further instructed not to discuss the payment with anyone.

218. The following day, May 11, 2011, the defendant JACK WARNER convened a meeting of the CFU officials prior to the scheduled start time. At the meeting WARNER stated that the U.S. currency the members had received was from Co-Conspirator #7, and that WARNER had advised Co-Conspirator #7 to allow CFU staff to distribute the money so that it would not “even remotely appear that anybody has any obligation for your vote because of what gift you have given them.” WARNER further stated that a representative of one of the CFU member associations had contacted CONCACAF offices in New York to advise Co-Conspirator #1 of the payments. WARNER was angry that the representative had done this. WARNER stated, “There are some people here who think they are more pious than thou. If you’re pious, open a church, friends. Our business is our business.”

HOTLANTA MAN posted:

I wonder how much it factored in that this would piss off the Russians

chuggo is BACK posted:

*looks at world cup bids* yeah, Qatar...Qatar is the greatest

Lamont Cranston posted:

atomic gog posted:

Yeah RICO what, what a surprise

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/603615037656272896
BREAKING: UEFA calls for postponement of FIFA presidential election, may boycott congress.

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51. At various times relevant to the Indictment, Co-Conspirator #7 was a high-ranking official of FIFA and AFC, the regional confederation representing much of Asia.

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/603615037656272896
BREAKING: UEFA calls for postponement of FIFA presidential election, may boycott congress.

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/603615037656272896
BREAKING: UEFA calls for postponement of FIFA presidential election, may boycott congress.

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/603615037656272896
BREAKING: UEFA calls for postponement of FIFA presidential election, may boycott congress.

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/603615037656272896
BREAKING: UEFA calls for postponement of FIFA presidential election, may boycott congress.

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/603615037656272896
BREAKING: UEFA calls for postponement of FIFA presidential election, may boycott congress.

chuggo is BACK posted:

y'all execs had enough, gimme some mo