The US Justice Department is expanding its probe on FIFA and says we’re likely to see more officials being investigated. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch went after FIFA’s top brass, just days into being sworn […]
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DOJ Probing Mega Banks HSBC, Standard Chartered For FIFA Scandal Money Laundering
In the latest development in the seemingly made-for-Hollywood events surrounding the FIFA scandal, United States regulators are probing major banks over their possible handling and processing of “tainted funds.” The investigation is focused on whether […]
Desperate Russia Kicks Around Moon Landing Conspiracies To Deflect FIFA Scandal Questions
Grasping at conspiracy theory straws, Russia’s Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin has called for an international investigation into what he claims are murky details surrounding the U.S. moon landings between 1969 and 1972. The call […]
FIFA Scandal Noose Tightens As Third Largest Swiss Bank Launches Internal Probe
As we’ve seen over the last eight years, global mega-banks rarely launch internal investigations on their own volition. Instead they come one step ahead of a legal inquiry into their criminal activities, whether that’s market […]
Embattled World Soccer Body FIFA Suspends Bidding On Future World Cups
FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke, the defacto spokesperson now that disgraced president Sepp Blatter is under investigation, said on Wednesday that FIFA would “postpone” the bidding process for the 2026 World Cup. The announcement comes […]
FIFA Official Says Russia, Qatar Will Lose World Cup If Bribery Found
In light of recent revelations of endemic bribery and corruption its difficult to trust anything that world soccer governing body FIFA says. That being as it may, a key FIFA official said on the weekend […]
Germany Bribed Saudi Arabia With Arms Shipment To Secure 2006 World Cup
The FIFA bribery scandal continues to worsen, as it became known on Sunday that Germany provided an arms shipment to Saudi Arabia in return for the kingdom’s vote for the 2006 World Cup, a German […]
Athletic Apparel Company Nike Is Now Involved In Two Huge Scandals
Nike’s iconic swoosh brand may be significantly weakened over the summer as the company is embroiled in bribery and doping allegations, exposing a cutthroat culture that will do anything to win. “Behind sponsorship is the […]
Corrupt FIFA President, Fearing Arrest, Refuses To Attend Olympics Meeting In Switzerland
Formerly defiant FIFA ringleader Sepp Blatter, who is resigning as president of world football’s scandal-plagued governing body, has decided he’d rather not end up like six of his colleagues, who were arrested in Switzerland last […]
FBI Is Investigating Disgraced FIFA President Blatter For Bribery
The FIFA soccer scandal continues to widen as reports surfaced late Tuesday that the FBI and U.S. prosecutors are investigating Sepp Blatter, who announced his resignation on Tuesday, as part of a wide ranging probe […]
Embattled World Soccer President Resigns In Shame After Latest Revelations
Sepp Blatter, head of corrupt world soccer body FIFA, announced he will step down as head of the governing body but only after a fresh vote “for the election of my successor,” he said Tuesday. […]
FIFA President Blatter, Who Oversaw Bribes, Re-Elected
D.C. isn’t the only body of rich men that wreaks of corruption. World soccer body FIFA, long known as perhaps the most corrupt sports organization on earth, decided on Friday that it was perfectly fine […]
Putin Sees Nothing Wrong With Bribes, Calls FIFA Probe Plot To Take World Cup Away From Russia
It should come as no surprise, in light of the rampant corruption and bribery associated with the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, that Russian President Vladimir Putin sees nothing wrong with FIFA’s selection process. And why […]
Nike May Face Criminal Charges In The FIFA Bribery Scandal
Athletic apparel giant Nike is heavily entangled in the massive FIFA bribery scandal according to analysis on the indictment released on Wednesday. Within the release by the Department of Justice there is an unidentified sportswear […]
How Much Does It Cost To Host A World Cup? $10 Million In Bribes
International soccer is forever tainted as sordid revelations emerge about the politics behind hosting a formerly-prestigious World Cup event. Tournaments were awarded on nothing but bribes, which in the case of South Africa’s 2010 cup […]
World Soccer Body FIFA Raided, Execs Arrested In Massive Corruption Probe
FIFA, the powerful yet deeply troubled governing body for soccer, was indicted in two probes led by U.S. and Swiss authorities. Acting on a U.S. led indictment by the Justice Department, Swiss police arrested several […]