Federal prosecutors alleged in an indictment unsealed Wednesday that top FIFA officials over the past two decades have turned soccer’s international governing body into a racketeering enterprise.
This chart released by prosecutors showed how top officials with CONCACAF and CONMEBOL, the organizations under the FIFA umbrella that govern soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean and South America, respectively, allegedly traded official support for bribes and kickbacks from sports marketing companies.
In return, those sports marketing companies secured the rights to CONCACAF and CONMEBOL’s soccer tournaments, which they then could sell to broadcasters and corporate sponsors at a premium price.
For the remainder of my time on this earth I will gauge all law enforcement stories against the 2008 economic collapse. It should have been a prima facie case of terrorism and many in the financial industry should have been the guests of Uncle Sam on a small parcel of land in Cuba. What do I care about this? Is this important? Martha Stewart went to prison for the equivalent of $40k. The people who almost destroyed our economy and definitely destroyed many lives got bonuses. I have no more respect for our judicial system with it’s paid for judges and the cesspit that is the SCOTUS and the RATS that inhabit it. To hell with them all …
you are correct sir; except for the fact that FIFA controls - and I mean CONTROLS - the most popular sport on the planet, by far. The corruption and old-boy-network shit that has been a part of the FiFA program for too long needs to be flushed. Why Europe didn’t do it is a indicator of the depth of that corruption.
thank you Ms Lynch
I may not understand the full scope of this, but, this can’t be much different than how most leagues operate when it comes to sponsorships and kick backs? NCAA comes to mind real quick…