Lynch: "You will not wait this out; you will not escape our focus ... The scale of FIFA corruption is unconscionable." Wow. #FIFA— DW Sports (@dw_sports) December 3, 2015 US Attorney General Loretta Lynch: charges expanded - bribes amounted to $200m since 1991— Dan Roan (@danroan) December 3, 2015 LATEST: 16 more soccer officials are charged in FIFA corruption scandal after raid in Zurich https://t.co/oahP93pdWh pic.twitter.com/BfRl7aiRdj— NYT Sports (@NYTSports) December 3, 2015
From the 240 pp DOJ indictment, the one bit relevant to the KNT: RE Co-conspirator #6: http://www.justice.gov/opa/file/796966/download
According to the report, Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich were also allegedly involved. #DW— DW Sports (@dw_sports) December 18, 2015
So with Platini banned for sure, there are five candidates left for the FIFA presidency: Prince Ali bin al-Hussein Jerome Champagne Gianni Infantino Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa Tokyo Sexwale Out of them, bin al-Hussein is the frontrunner given that he was the opposition unity candidate against Blatter.
Platini officially quits presidential race. Also today, authorities raided CONMEBOL offices in Paraguay.
THE FBI VS. FIFA The exclusive account of how a small band of federal agents and an outsized corrupt official brought down the sports world's biggest governing body. http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/sto...lusive-story-how-feds-took-fifa?ex_cid=espntw It gets better.
East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) has declared its 10 member associations will vote for Sheikh Salman.— Ben Rumsby (@ben_rumsby) February 25, 2016
Disappointing news. If he's elected, I guess there won't a FIFA investigation of his alleged part in the brutal crackdown in Bahrain.
Vote result 1st round: Prince Ali 27, Sheik Salman 85, Infantino 88, Champagne 7. We go again.— Nick Harris (@sportingintel) February 26, 2016 They're going to a second round now. Winner needs a majority.
FIFA admits to World Cup hosting bribes, asks U.S. prosecutors for cash In documents seen by The Associated Press, FIFA asks for: - $28.2m for years of payments, including bonuses, flights and daily expenses, to officials it now says are corrupt - $10m for the "theft" of money that FIFA officials transferred as bribes to then-executive committee members to vote for South Africa as 2010 World Cup host -- "substantial" cost of legal bills since separate U.S. and Swiss federal probes of corruption in international soccer were revealed last May - damages for harm to its reputation, plus other bribes and kickbacks for media rights to non-FIFA competitions but "which were made possible because of the value of the FIFA brand" http://www.espnfc.com/blog/fifa/243/post/2830672/fifa-admits-to-world-cup-hosting-bribes
Gab Marcotti Q&A that explains everything: http://www.espnfc.com/blog/espn-fc-...itution-for-lost-revenue-gab-marcotti-q-and-a
BREAKING: Swiss attorney general opens criminal case against former FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke@AP_Sports— Rob Harris (@RobHarris) March 17, 2016
Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160403-panama-papers-global-overview.html http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/56fec130a1bb8d3c3495ae00/ (Unrelated to the FIFA scandal, but putting it here) http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/57021852a1bb8d3c3495b438/
Michel Platini Gabriel Heinze Leonardo Ulloa Iván Zamorano Darko Kovacevic https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160403-ethics-fifa-scandal.html
Gianni Infantino signed contract given to businessmen indicted in FIFA probe http://www.espnfc.com/blog/fifa/243...o-awarded-tv-contract-to-indicted-businessmen