Posted on 05/27/2015 2:34:30 PM PDT by drewh
Corrupt FIFA Has Clinton Foundation Ties; World Cup Host Qatar Gave Millions Both Bill Clinton and his family’s charity have been tied to soccer’s governing body, as well as Qatar’s disastrous World Cup bid.
And just like that, another Clinton Foundation donor is in the news.
The Clinton global charity has received between $50,000 and $100,000 from soccer’s governing body and has partnered with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association on several occasions, according to donor listings on the foundation’s website.
Several top FIFA executives were arrested Wednesday in Zurich and face corruption charges stretching back two decades, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Involvement with the embattled body extends beyond the foundation to Bill Clinton himself. The former president was an honorary chairman of the bid committee put together to promote the United States as a possible host nation for the 2018 or 2022 World Cup.
When the U.S. lost the 2022 bid to Qatar, Clinton was rumored to be so upset he shattered a mirror.
But apparently Qatar tried to make it up to him. The Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee, partnering with the State of Qatar, “committed to utilizing its research and development for sustainable infrastructure at the 2022 FIFA World Cup to improve food security in Qatar, the Middle East, and other arid and water-stressed regions throughout the world,” according to the Clinton Foundation website.
The cost of the two-year project is not listed on the Clinton Foundation website, but the Qatar 2022 committee gave the foundation between $250,000 and $500,000 in 2014 and the State of Qatar gave between $1 million and $5 million in previous, unspecified years.
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Wow, looks like Qatar payed even more graft than Clinton.
Doesn't anyone find it odd that Loretta Lynch has jumped all over this so quickly and so publicly?
A case like this has been building long before LL got on the scene, and it’s a dual investigation between the US and Switzerland, not just the DOJ.
But the prompt may have been the FIFA elections this Friday, which now look like they’ll be delayed a few months.
Protection money...in case Hillary becomes President.
Protection money...in case Hillary becomes President.
Why should the USDOJ give a rats posterior about FIFA? This is not a U.S. based organization so why waste our resources?
Bribery is out in the open and the clintons are not charged.
3rd world countries have more law and order.
Why do the words “Clintons” and “balls” always seem to come together in events?
Hillary even has Bill’s balls in a lock box named “Monica”.
There must be something to this.
You are correct. This has been in the works for a while. The big fish was nabbed last year, Chuck Blazer. He was the US representative on FIFA’s board from 1996-2013. The DOJ flipped him and he is singing like a canary.
Blazer was nabbed already in 2011. He is not a whistle blower as some sources report. He wore a wire to the meetings because otherwise he was going to prison for 20 years.
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