ATHLETIC ASSHOLES

[HairOfTheDog]

Wow. When I think of the FBI taking down criminals overseas, I don't think of sports execs. That's incredulous and wonderful. White collar crime is the most expensive.

It's amazing how much money is involved in the FIFA scandal; literally hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes, payoffs, and kickbacks. It's far-reaching too.

Putin is all over the news pages this morning calling out the U.S. for intervening where it doesn't belong again (in his opinion). Putin sure as hell doesn't want a shadow or risk cast over Russia's award of the 2018 World Cup.

Nike's involvement is being explored. Hillary Clinton is being attacked because Bill's charity accepted a big donation from FIFA. Etc...

Here's the guy who will be the U.S. DOJ's and FBI's key witness.



^ Chuck Blazer was a FIFA executive committee member and at one point the No. 2 man in the soccer governing organization for the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF).

He was using illicit FIFA monies to pay for his lavish lifestyle, including renting an $6,000 a month unit in Trump Tower just for his cats, for years on end. He'd amassed over $11,000,000 in illegal unreported income.

Finally, in 2011, he was busted by US officials in New York City, while he was riding his motorized scooter down 5^th Avenue. He agreed to go undercover for the FBI to avoid being tossed in prison for tax evasion and secretly pleaded guilty to money laundering, racketeering, wire fraud, and income tax evasion n 2013.

This morning, FIFA's organization for N. America, Central America and Caribbean provisionally dismissed its president Jeffrey Webb.

Story: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/28/footba...ck-blazer/