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Pook Good Mook posted:Funny thing about the judge is that two things had to happen to arrest a foreign government official. I was curious about the diplomatic angle too. Thing is, he wasn't coming to the US under diplomatic immunity or anything. If he was back home his government might refuse to extradite a high ranking judge (this might work? IANAL). But the dude apparently set up this vacation, and he either knew or didn't care to check that the boat would be stopping directly in the country that he did his dirty dealings in and which has been on a crusade to prosecute and extradite dudes just like him. Seems pretty illustrative of just how long FIFA's been a kleptopia that this dragnet keeps scooping up more and more people. The crooks have been getting away with it for so long that even worldwide press coverage for over half a year about how the head of the DoJ is coming for them, personally, doesn't even seem to register 
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vyelkin posted:Dude looks like Carlo Ancelotti Do you believe in crisis actors, son?
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B.B. Rodriguez posted:Canada will still lose to Guam in the qualifiers. It's true Heh Hehehehehehehe Heh 
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loving Guatemala how to they let a judge work on the board of any organization?
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27 of FIFA's 34 sponsorship slots remain unfilled post qatargate...goons who is up for a whipround?
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The Argentinian FA is having a bit of a nightmare after finding their presidential election had more votes than possible voters.
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Healbot posted:The Argentinian FA is having a bit of a nightmare after finding their presidential election had more votes than possible voters. I saw this yesterday. They have 75 members. The result of the election was 38/38.
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EvilHawk posted:I saw this yesterday. They have 75 members. The result of the election was 38/38. lmao
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MoPZiG posted:27 of FIFA's 34 sponsorship slots remain unfilled post qatargate...goons who is up for a whipround? Ephex could get some Hitlr billboards on the cheap
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Pook Good Mook posted:America continues to save soccer. I got a car ad that started with a bunch of clowns driving around, this checks out.
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Pook Good Mook posted:Funny thing about the judge is that two things had to happen to arrest a foreign government official. I dont think Obama is really kept in the loop on some horseshit banana republic affairs its not like we gotta keep those relations with Guatemala strong.
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EvilHawk posted:I saw this yesterday. They have 75 members. The result of the election was 38/38. That's amazing 
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Healbot posted:The Argentinian FA is having a bit of a nightmare after finding their presidential election had more votes than possible voters. 
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BBC posted:Fifa: FBI probing Sepp Blatter role in $100m bribery scandal Also, Lord Triesman says that multiple sources have told him that Qatar spent £117 million on their World Cup bid - multiple times what anyone else spent (6x the English FA and 12x the USSF). Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Dec 7, 2015 |
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hey edmundo, what should i do with all these ethics pamphpets fifa sent us? yeah, they're blank on the back oh good thinking, i forgot that was tomorrow. yeah, I've got the paper cutter right her. how many do we need again? hey, actually, I'll just cut up the whole stack. the secretaries can use the leftovers for scratch paper
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EvilHawk posted:I saw this yesterday. They have 75 members. The result of the election was 38/38. Seems legit. In Chicago, dead voters can file by proxy.
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Crazy Ted posted:Sports marketing company ISL paid a total of $100m to officials including former Fifa president Joao Havelange and ex-Fifa executive Ricardo Teixeira. In return, ISL was granted lucrative television and marketing rights throughout the 1990s. Blatter denied knowing about the bribes and took no action. He even allowed Teixeira to take part in the notorious vote for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. I thought we're supposed to refer to them as Daesh now?
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I'm loving this. Every time a new leak comes out it seems like we've reached the pinnacle of how high even comically exaggerated, cartoonish corruption can go. But nope, then something new comes out and turns out we weren't even out of the basement yet!
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Karl Sharks posted:I thought we're supposed to refer to them as Daesh now? I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if FIFA officials have met with Islamic State to discuss setting up an ISFA
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webmeister posted:I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if FIFA officials have met with Islamic State to discuss setting up an ISFA To do anything less would mean politicizing the sport!
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The US's investigation into FIFA keeps getting biggerquote:NEW YORK (Reuters) - A sports marketing company that was described in a sweeping indictment this month as retaining contracts because of the "support" of corrupt soccer officials has longstanding ties to the U.S. entertainment company 21st Century Fox, according to securities filings and other government documents.
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Lamont Cranston posted:If all we get out of this is Rupert Murdoch in supermax, I'd be ok with it He'd have Fox News convince every Tea Partier that Obama has kicked off RaHoWa and to shoot every non-white person and government worker you can see before he ends up anywhere.
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Hey guys lay off Blatter, he's totally innocent. He's said so himself in a tearful letter he's written to all 209 FIFA member states."Soccernet posted:Outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter has written to the governing body's 209 member associations protesting his innocence and criticising its ethics committee ahead of his disciplinary hearing this week. Man gently caress this dude.
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Der Shovel posted:Hey guys lay off Blatter, he's totally innocent. He's said so himself in a tearful letter he's written to all 209 FIFA member states.
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Toplowtech posted:"Years of strong denials always pay off in the end!" - Lance Armstrong. The difference is Lance Armstrong has to live with his shame for decades whereas in a few years Blatter will die peacefully in his sleep in a Russian mansion.
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vyelkin posted:The difference is Lance Armstrong has to live with his shame for decades whereas in a few years Blatter will die peacefully in his sleep in a Russian mansion. I don't think Walking Pharmacy And Blood Bank will make it to 'decades'
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dex_sda posted:I don't think Walking Pharmacy And Blood Bank will make it to 'decades' Realistically speaking he should be ok, he came in the area after the insane east germany bullshit and before the modern cancer cocktail lunacy. He might have hosed his blood chemistry to the point he needs epo therapeutically but its not like he will be one big walking cancer the way I fully expect a lot of current footballers/cyclists/tennis players to go.
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Armstrong already got cancer from his doping, and he beat it.
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foobardog posted:He'd have Fox News convince every Tea Partier that Obama has kicked off RaHoWa and to shoot every non-white person and government worker you can see before he ends up anywhere. Haha yeah definitely! monkey cheese
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http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/medi...-newspaper.html Free Sepp
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blue footed boobie posted:http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/dec/17/sepp-blatter-nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-video?CMP=share_btn_tw Is Putin cognizant of the fact that anyone he supports in the western world is essentially a black mark upon them and using it to his advantage?
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Maxwells Demon posted:Is Putin cognizant of the fact that anyone he supports in the western world is essentially a black mark upon them and using it to his advantage? I don't think Putin is trying to shake up a corrupt organization that recently gave him a big political victory, no. Remember the Sochi Olympics? They were the most expensive Olympics ever, because this big prestigious event gave Putin an excuse to funnel tons of money to his cronies, in the form of construction bids and other big contracts. These kickbacks are a great tool in allowing him and his buddies to stay in power. The 2018 Cup will give him another chance to turn on the ruble spigots, so I don't know why he would be making some calculated move to try and turn up the heat on Blatter or anyone else who may have had a hand in the 2018 bid victory. And aside from the graft, big events like this are a way for politicians to tell their population how great of a leader they are, how great of a country we are, and so on. So of course a corrupt authoritarian leader of a middling country like Russia can use this to their advantage. They can try to reinforce the support they already have, and try to win over skeptics as well.
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Figueredo has been granted his extradition to Uruguay and now Rafael Esquivel is also trying to get extradited to Venezuela because he knows he'll be able to do whatever the gently caress he wants here shame on the US and the Swiss
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El Hefe posted:Figueredo has been granted his extradition to Uruguay and now Rafael Esquivel is also trying to get extradited to Venezuela because he knows he'll be able to do whatever the gently caress he wants here I guarantee you he only got extradition because he rolled on someone higher than him.
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El Hefe posted:Figueredo has been granted his extradition to Uruguay and now Rafael Esquivel is also trying to get extradited to Venezuela because he knows he'll be able to do whatever the gently caress he wants here loving Figueredo, how did a used car salesman get so powerful?
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