Nobody cared about this when everybody made money. But now that the peps are losing they want to sue. I'm not worried.
The only mistake was not caring about the theft and fraud all along. Anschutz is the wrong target, of course.
This is one of the more absurdly written 'stories' I've ever read. MLS "plunged into chaos" because a company owned by Mr. Anschutz has been sued? Oh, please. In this legal climate, everybody sues everybody, it's a cost of doing business, and the subject of the lawsuit has nothing to do with the soccer operations. Anschutz "poured $200 mil into MLS"? Well, maybe, over a period of 7 years, that's what his accountants might total things up to be on one side of the sheet, but that of course is like saying that I have poured "hundreds of thousands of dollars" into my home mortgage expenses---well sure, over time, over the course of several homes. The figure (which has been tossed around endlessly since it was a part of the testimony in the players' antitrust lawsuit) is meaningless: it ignores revenues, it ignores tax advantages to the entities bearing the expenses, on and on. This is lazy, alarmist, writing, looking for a 'big' story where none exists.