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Sepp Blatter to quit as president amid corruption scandal

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Re: Sepp Blatter to quit as president amid corruption scandal

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Post by justinsingh »

One of Taleb's tweets stated:

"From Mafia history: Feds close progressively the circle around the big fish via associates. They get him last to avoid plea bargaining."

The circle was being closed, and hopefully Blatter will still face some consequence while he attempts to run away from this mess.

Re: Sepp Blatter to quit as president amid corruption scandal

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Post by joshstrange »

siculars wrote: post #4

McDonalds paired with Lime-Rita's for John Oliver. The most powerful or prescient talking head on TV? Quite possibly.

His show is awesome and really hit the ground running! Really makes the Colbert Report replacement (The Nightly Show) look terrible by comparison (started around the same time but to be fair LWT is once a week while TNS is 4 days/week). Looking forward to other things that John will bring into the light, I've learned quite a bit from his show (or rather his show has wetted my appetite to do more research on topics he covers).

Re: Sepp Blatter to quit as president amid corruption scandal

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Post by wtvanhest »

For an interesting take on the FIFA charges, YC's Casetext had several articles published by Heather Lowe - Legal Counsel and Director of Government Affairs at Global Financial Integrity:

FIFA: The Bribery Case with No Bribery Charge https://casetext.com/posts/xyrwas9p8swf80k9-fifa-the-bribery...

Can Victims Sue for Damages? https://casetext.com/posts/pz8uyoy048izr529-can-fifa-victims...

Re: Sepp Blatter to quit as president amid corruption scandal

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Post by jonknee »

taco_emoji wrote: post #8
rilindo wrote: post #2

I guess John Oliver will be drinking Budlight Lime live.

Did Budweiser have anything to do with this?

I'm sure sponsor pressure had a lot to do with it. You can sell "It's just the Americans" about the DOJ investigations to a lot of your voters, but when the money goes away you don't have the means of control.
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