Comments on: FIFA Officials Accepted Tens of Millions in Bribes, According to Swiss Court Documents

By: ar1186

ar1186 — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:16:15 +0000

The latest issue of the Blizzard does a terrific job with this subject. Russia and Qatar acted as you’d have expected during the WC bidding process, but even a supposedly clean, Anglospheric bid like Australia turned out to be no different from the oil countries, only it was much more incompetent and wasteful of taxpayer money.

By: kaiserwilhelmreems

kaiserwilhelmreems — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:04:30 +0000

Season 5 premiere only four days away!

i’ve got a lot of watching to do, just finished season 2 for the second time around. i know what i’m doing saturday night.

By: geoffreyvs hired a PR firm to get his son's coach fired; now I'm running for Senate!

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:01:22 +0000

Also, screw Qatar.

By: geoffreyvs hired a PR firm to get his son's coach fired; now I'm running for Senate!

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:00:53 +0000

Possibly the least surprising revelation since it was discovered that colleges (and/or their boosters) were paying football players under the table.

By: Nada

Nada — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:00:29 +0000

Better Call Saul

Season 5 premiere only four days away!

By: njensen79

njensen79 — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:56:54 +0000

You know it’s stories like this that makes me really hate it that we don’t pay the players, invoke instant replay in baseball, contract the pirates, and give Sanchez some credit.

By: kaiserwilhelmreems

kaiserwilhelmreems — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:52:04 +0000

C’mon, next you are going to tell me water is wet?

only for the wealthy, the rest of the world gets dry water.

By: cleet

cleet — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:51:03 +0000

FIFA Officials Accepted Tens of Millions in Bribes
Grass green, sky blue, more at 11.

C’mon, next you are going to tell me water is wet?

By: BFFredo

BFFredo — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:50:37 +0000

FIFA showing its Corrupt Credentials. There are criminal empires who aren’t as shady.

/Sepp Blatter though loves to pop in on Nate Dogg’s lines in “Regulate”

By: scripty

scripty — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:48:19 +0000

TO CHANNEL MONEY THROUGH A SOURCE OR BY AN INTERMEDIARY.

By: RexKramerDangerSeeker

RexKramerDangerSeeker — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:46:35 +0000

The two men and FIFA paid a combined $6.1 million to close off a Swiss prosecutor’s investigation and end criminal proceedings against the two men in May 2010.

Now that would be a cool prosecutor to be an heir of.

By: kaiserwilhelmreems

kaiserwilhelmreems — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:43:42 +0000

Jennings has also accused Havelange of funneling more than $40 million in bribes through a sham company called “Sicuretta.” Teixeira, though never charged formally, has been investigated multiple times in Brazil for crimes including tax evasion, money laundering and “diverting public funding.”

Better Call Saul for money laundering schemes.

By: Ty Duffy

Ty Duffy — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:43:39 +0000

So, what you’re saying is Havelange has the inside track to be the next Fiesta Bowl grand-poobah?

96 and in poor health. Not sure he could survive the strip club outings.

By: molemaninthemorning

molemaninthemorning — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:42:28 +0000

I will never recover from learning Qatar got that World Cup. If it was Australia, I had the go-ahead to plan a 3.5 week vacation.

My brother lives in Bahrain and has been posting lots of pictures, every time the one thought I have is “god DAMN it’s sandy!” Also miserably hot. People will die in that tournament.

By: njensen79

njensen79 — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:41:37 +0000

Pay dat man hiz money.

The only thing I was thinking while reading this post.

By: oranjebleeder

oranjebleeder — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:40:54 +0000

So, what you’re saying is Havelange has the inside track to be the next Fiesta Bowl grand-poobah?

By: GloriousMullet

GloriousMullet — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:37:54 +0000

This is why I don’t watch soccer

By: scripty

scripty — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:37:14 +0000

I will never recover from learning Qatar got that World Cup. If it was Australia, I had the go-ahead to plan a 3.5 week vacation.

By: Nada

Nada — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:34:15 +0000

FIFA wanted to make it especially clear that then general secretary Sepp Blatter is not accused of accepting a bribe in this case, though he knew of and protected those who did

Blatter needs to be JoePa’d.

By: Nada

Nada — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:33:03 +0000

FIFA Officials Accepted Tens of Millions in Bribes

Grass green, sky blue, more at 11.