Posted on 05/26/2015 10:09:33 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Swiss authorities began an extraordinary early-morning operation here Wednesday to arrest several top soccer officials and extradite them to the United States on federal corruption charges.
As leaders of FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, gathered for their annual meeting, more than a dozen plain-clothed Swiss law enforcement officials arrived unannounced at the Baur au Lac hotel, an elegant five-star property with views of the Alps and Lake Zurich.
The officers went to the registration desk to get keys, then headed upstairs toward the hotel rooms. One FIFA official was led by the authorities from his room to a side-door exit of the hotel. He was allowed to bring his luggage.
The charges allege widespread corruption in FIFA over the past two decades, involving bids for World Cups as well as marketing and broadcast deals, according to three law enforcement officials with direct knowledge of the case. The charges include wire fraud, racketeering and money laundering, and officials said they targeted members of FIFA’s powerful executive committee, which wields enormous power and does its business largely in secret.
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Several of FIFA's highest ranking leadership have been led away in handcuffs. The investigation was requested by the U.S. Dept. of Justice.
All Obama Kabuki Theater to appear as a “world Stage leader”....
My Gosh.... I have become “Russian Cynical” these last 6-8 years....
which wields enormous power and does its business largely in secret.
Everyone knows only the US Senate has those powers
Hillary goes free.
Micheal Schnidt, New York Times reporter, is live tweeting from the scene:
https://twitter.com/MichaelSSchmidt
For one reason or another, Hillary is above the law. The Law of God is the only thing that will do Hillary in. The law of man refuses to touch her.
The New York Times 1 hour ago
FIFA officials were arrested on corruption charges including wire fraud, racketeering and money laundering
That palestine/Israel thing may have just upset the Mosad...
“Hillary goes free.”
And so does Soros. Unbelievable!!!
My bet would be this is ALL about Russia being awarded the 2018 World Cup.
David Downs, executive director of the rejected U.S. bid, is a HUGE Obama supporter, and President of Univision.
I wish they would arrest individual players for faking injuries.
Sky News live coverage:
http://news.sky.com/watch-live
NYTimes story updated again:
One of the officials arrested in Zurich was Eduardo Li of Costa Rica.
Indictments will be brought against more than 10 officials, not all of whom are in Zurich.
Among them are “Jeffrey Webb of the Cayman Islands, a vice president of the executive committee; Eugenio Figueredo of Uruguay, who is also an executive committee vice president and until recently was the president of South America’s soccer association; and Jack Warner of Trinidad and Tobago, a former member of the executive committee who has been accused of numerous ethical violations.”
How is this the business of the USA? We have our own football.
My guess is that they forgot to contribute to the Clinton Global Initiative.
Maybe they didn’t properly inflate the balls....
So the (former) “World’s Policeman” can’t do anything to halt the “Junior Varsity” genocide against Christians, women, children and World Heritage Sites in Syria and Iraq.
But, by God, they can still go all the way to Switzerland to get those filthy rich men for not playing fair with sporting events.
Yet the banksters are free....
Now we know what NSA was doing instead of tracking terrorists and Obama phones.
List of arrested FIFA officials, per the Times:
Those people include nine FIFA officials:
·Jeffrey Webb (Cayman Islands) - President of CONCACAF, member of FIFA Executive Committee
·Eugenio Figueredo (Uruguay) - President of CONMEBOL, member of FIFA Executive Committee
·Jack Warner (Trinida and Tobago) - President of CONCACAF from 1990 to 2011, former FIFA vice-president
·Eduardo Li (Costa Rica) - President of the Costa Rican Football Federation, CONCACAF representative to FIFA
·Julio Rocha (Nicaragua) - President of the Nicaraguan Football Federation, FIFA development officer
·Costas Takkas (Cayman Islands) - Former general secretary of the Cayman Islands Football Association
·Rafael Esquivel (Venezuela) - President of the Venezuelan Football Federation since 1988, member of the FIFA disciplinary committee
·José Maria Marin (Brazil) - President of the Brazilian Football Confederation from 2012 to 2015, president of the 2014 FIFA World Cup committee
·Nicolás Leoz (Paraguay) - President of CONMEBOL from 1986 to 2013
And five sports marketing execs:
·Alejandro Burzaco (Argentina) - CEO of Torneos y Competencias, which owns various sports television channels and broadcasted Argentine domestic football matches from 1992 to 2009, and the 2006 World Cup
·Aaron Davidson (United States) - President of Traffic Sports USA, which organizes and handles marketing for a variety of CONCACAF soccer events, like World Cup Qualifying and the Gold Cup. Chairman of the Board of the North American Soccer League, the soccer tier below MLS
·Hugo Jinkis (Argentina) - President of Full Play, which owns some sort of rights (I am unclear which ones) to hundreds of South American soccer matches
·Mariano Jinkis (Argentina) - CEO of Full Play, which owns some sort of rights (I am unclear which ones) to hundreds of South American soccer matches
·José Margulies (Unknown) - Margulies is somehow involved with Traffic Sports
I see exactly 1 US Citizen among all the South and Central Americans!
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