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Octatonic posted:What's happening in Atlanta it's probably perfectly legal, just incredibly racist, which is part for the course. You know what folks in Dekalb County say MARTA stands for right? Statistically speaking very few people in this thread know what they call MARTA because we don't live in the area, so you may as well just say it.
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e: ^^^ Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta.Octatonic posted:What's happening in Atlanta it's probably perfectly legal, just incredibly racist, which is part for the course. You know what folks in Dekalb County say MARTA stands for right? I lived in Atlanta for several years. I'm well aware of MARTA's alternate term (and a few that don't spell 'MARTA') and I see friends in the area posting about the eternal fuckup that is the new Stadium and the impossible logistics regularly. I know Nathan Deal is an incredibly corrupt motherfucker but the stadium is just all sorts of horrible. Evil Fluffy fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Dec 4, 2015 |
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Evil Fluffy posted:I lived in Atlanta for several years. I'm well aware of that MARTA term (and a few that don't spell 'MARTA') and I see friends in the area posting about the eternal fuckup that is the new Stadium and the impossible logistics regularly. I know Nathan Deal is an incredibly corrupt motherfucker but the stadium is just all sorts of horrible. Fair enough. I don't live down there anymore so maybe I'm just still consumed by the cynicism I built up. E: it's just that I heard too much bullshit about not wanting to go to "rough neighborhoods" to watch a game. Octatonic fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Dec 4, 2015 |
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SlipUp posted:This is the most high profile RICO case ever. Nahh, that would be the John Gotti case since he actually managed to dodge the first RICO case against him... by bribing a juror who later served three years after a different RICO case uncovered it.
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I question how much organized criminality goes on in the NCAA, NFL and other big American leagues. There's tons of disorganized criminality by teams/schools, players and coaches, sure, but thats not what RICO was made for. Like do you think that they go around rigging the Superbowl sites or accepting bribes for advertising contracts? Maybe in individual sports, boxing/tennis/golf and the like, but not in the big four or college sports world.
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Cliff Racer posted:I question how much organized criminality goes on in the NCAA, NFL and other big American leagues. There's tons of disorganized criminality by teams/schools, players and coaches, sure, but thats not what RICO was made for. Like do you think that they go around rigging the Superbowl sites or accepting bribes for advertising contracts? Maybe in individual sports, boxing/tennis/golf and the like, but not in the big four or college sports world.
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Jonked posted:You can be a sleazy fucker on your own time. It's when your sleazy fucker boss is telling you to do sleazy loving things as a matter of everyday business, and you're not paying taxes or making DAs look bad with your sleazy loving - that's different. You can't do that in America. The trouble is there are so many sleazy fucker things you can do just this side of legality. SlipUp posted:I definitely heard all the stories coming in to this and I knew these guys were screwed. I've just never seen it in action before. The only other time I personally remember it coming up was one of those corrupt juvie judges. Watching it drag a corrupt international organization down to cannibalize itself in real time is pretty loving amazing. This is the most high profile RICO case ever. Formula One 
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Shifty Pony posted:Formula One What's going on that's so corrupt in Formula One?
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Yeah, at least in F1's case the lovely races in places nobody likes are openly buying their way in.
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Cliff Racer posted:Like do you think that they go around rigging the Superbowl sites or accepting bribes for advertising contracts? Maybe in individual sports, boxing/tennis/golf and the like, but not in the big four or college sports world. I can absolutely see this happening with the BCS games. If there isn't a bunch of shady poo poo going on with that I'd be stunned.
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Evil Fluffy posted:I can absolutely see this happening with the BCS games. If there isn't a bunch of shady poo poo going on with that I'd be stunned. Well the same cities host that every year and its the traditional ones that had been hosting big bowls for fifty plus years. Unless they changed it up to not just be some of the default big bowl games?
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Cliff Racer posted:Yeah, at least in F1's case the lovely races in places nobody likes are openly buying their way in. Bernie's stroke of genius: it's not corruption if it's openly a pay-to-play scheme!
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That's how they'll reorganise FIFA. Just auction the world cup off. Make a big party out of it.
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Cliff Racer posted:Well the same cities host that every year and its the traditional ones that had been hosting big bowls for fifty plus years. Unless they changed it up to not just be some of the default big bowl games? It could be a bigger deal if or more likely, when, they expand the playoffs. Either they'll have to continue having bowls represent semis/quarterfinals, or it'll just be a thing bid on like who and where host the March Madness games.
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Cliff Racer posted:Well the same cities host that every year and its the traditional ones that had been hosting big bowls for fifty plus years. Unless they changed it up to not just be some of the default big bowl games? There's a rotating schedule of the New Year's bowls to host the playoffs (Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton, Fiesta, and Peach Bowls). The championship game is apparently by bid though, so there's some potential for corruption there. foobardog posted:It could be a bigger deal if or more likely, when, they expand the playoffs. Either they'll have to continue having bowls represent semis/quarterfinals, or it'll just be a thing bid on like who and where host the March Madness games. You won't really see an issue with that unless they expand the playoffs beyond 12 teams due to the above rotation, and I don't think anyone really wants that (at most people want 8 teams).
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They chose the loving Peach Bowl over the Citrus Bowl? Well, I guess the CB lost any cache it had after it renamed itself after an insurance company.
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Shut the gently caress up about rubbish American Sports and get back to commenting on the crushing justice that is going through FIFA like a righteous cleansing. BBC article on the scandal: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35007626 It mentions this tonight: Panorama: Fifa, Sepp Blatter and Me is on BBC One at 20:30 GMT on Monday, 7 December and available to watch later via BBC iPlayer
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Apparantly the UEFA found an old note showing FIFA was aware of Platini's extra million of swiss franc salary/bonus since 1998. Looks like he could dodge any indictment and should be able to be candidate to the presidency?
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More like "found" an "old note" I bet.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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blowfish posted:More like "found" an "old note" I bet.
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Dec 7, 2015 12:32
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We shall live in a state of permanent FIFA prosecution.
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blowfish posted:We shall live in a state of permanent FIFA prosecution. Welcome to RICO bitches.
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Fifa president Sepp Blatter and Uefa boss Michel Platini have been suspended for eight years from all football-related activities following an ethics investigation (he's still FIFA president however). quote:They were found guilty of breaches surrounding a £1.3m ($2m) "disloyal payment" made to Platini in 2011.
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This thread went quiet for awhile so I was like  oh I guess it all petered out.I'm now feeling a combo of  for what's happening to FIFA specifically and  that the US Dept. of Justice can do this kinda thing.
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Xibanya posted:This thread went quiet for awhile so I was like These aren't technically related to the DOJ investigation. Still, RICO charges don't gently caress around. Once the lower levels of an organization start to go down, it's only a matter of time before the top goes as well, so you might want to get your affairs in order.
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I imagine an 8 year ban for Sepp might as well be a life ban, he's like 80 years old right?
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How can you keep a straight face banning a dude from the sport for 8 years and leaving him the loving presidency of the organization.
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SlipUp posted:How can you keep a straight face banning a dude from the sport for 8 years and leaving him the loving presidency of the organization. That's FIFA!
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SlipUp posted:How can you keep a straight face banning a dude from the sport for 8 years and leaving him the loving presidency of the organization. Money and practice. To an outsider (i.e. football-illiterate American that I am) it mostly sounds like they're just using all the noise to air some dirty laundry. The lower downs get to wag their fingers at Blatter while not actually taking any action, and Blatter gets to look like he's being punished without being actually punished.
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Alkydere posted:Money and practice. He had a press conference where he basically said "Suck it nerds, I'm still the President of FIFA."
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Party Plane Jones posted:Fifa president Sepp Blatter and Uefa boss Michel Platini have been suspended for eight years from all football-related activities following an ethics investigation (he's still FIFA president however). I like how the fine for an 1.3m payment isn't even 6 figures.
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Xibanya posted:This thread went quiet for awhile so I was like So think of it as a random Christmas with a Santa whose a little demented.
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Party Plane Jones posted:He had a press conference where he basically said "Suck it nerds, I'm still the President of FIFA." He's still the president of EVERYTHING
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Party Plane Jones posted:He had a press conference where he basically said "Suck it nerds, I'm still the President of FIFA." FIFA disagrees with him on this and the weird thing is, I think he genuinely believes his word is more important than the entire organisation. He's not active president. He holds an honorary position and isn't capable of exerting authority. Also it's FIFA, literally all they do is pick the world cup, bribe each other, and pay the tax skim off their massive cash reserves to Switzerland. Toplowtech posted:Apparantly the UEFA found an old note showing FIFA was aware of Platini's extra million of swiss franc salary/bonus since 1998. Looks like he could dodge any indictment and should be able to be candidate to the presidency? It's completely irrelevant. If Platini didn't hand in requests every year, Swiss law says it's not allowed to be part of the accounts. It is a payment against the interests of the organisation you are legally responsible for, as far as the Swiss are concerned. A "disloyal payment" is a criminal action. Platini is done forever. Tokyo Sexwale, a man mysteriously rich from gold and diamonds after being locked up alongside Mandela in Robben Island, is the favourite. Spangly A fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Dec 23, 2015 |
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Spangly A posted:FIFA disagrees with him on this and the weird thing is, I think he genuinely believes his word is more important than the entire organisation. quote:Tokyo Sexwale, a man mysteriously rich from gold and diamonds after being locked up alongside Mandela in Robben Island, is the favourite.
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Tokyo Sexwale sounds like the name a goon would choose for themselves. edit: mods please change fishmech's name to Tokyo Sexwale.
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Discendo Vox posted:mods please change fishmech's name to Tokyo Sexwale. seconding this motion
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Discendo Vox posted:Tokyo Sexwale sounds like the name a goon would choose for themselves. There is a Tokyo Sexwhale on the forums, I believe.
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Subjunctive posted:There is a Tokyo Sexwhale on the forums, I believe. You can't have too many Sexwales.
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Subjunctive posted:There is a Tokyo Sexwhale on the forums, I believe. Can we instead petition to change Fishmech's name to honor governor Butch Otter?
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