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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 404error »

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?

Not sure but he touched on something that might have struck a nerve. The ONLY people who could do something about FIFA were the sponsors. Threaten to cut down the money tree and change will come faster than you think.

Re: Sepp Blatter to quit as president amid corruption scandal

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Post by jacquesm »

1337biz wrote: post #9

Just wondering - has anyone heared any other side of the story? Whenever a story appears to be such clear cut black and white with one evil villain, my septics radar goes up.

Sometimes evil villains simply are evil villains. Septics? ;)

Re: Sepp Blatter to quit as president amid corruption scandal

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Post by dragonwriter »

[deleted] wrote: post #12

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> I thought by FIFA's bylaws once a person leaves their position, all investigations into any ethics issues cease? Or is that just internal investigations?

Its just internal FIFA investigations. If a private organizations by-laws could cut-off criminal investigations, every criminal would be creating their own organizations with by-laws structured in a convenient way to do that.

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Post by msandford »

[deleted] wrote: post #12

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I don't think FIFA's bylaws can somehow supersede those of every country on earth. This is a criminal investigation into FIFA by the US, not a FIFA investigation into a FIFA official by another FIFA official.

I know that the TPP is happening and it's being done without much oversight. But I suspect that if FIFA had somehow attained worldwide diplomatic immunity for its officials we'd know about it. And once an official stepped down, well, they'd then lose that immunity (not that it's ever existed) and would again be open to prosecution.

Re: Sepp Blatter to quit as president amid corruption scandal

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Post by asavadatti »

jacquesm wrote: post #22
1337biz wrote: post #9

Just wondering - has anyone heared any other side of the story? Whenever a story appears to be such clear cut black and white with one evil villain, my septics radar goes up.

Sometimes evil villains simply are evil villains. Septics? ;)

skeptics?

Re: Sepp Blatter to quit as president amid corruption scandal

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Post by spdy »

Looks like they planned this before the election. There was no suitable candidate who would be able to do the job that has to be done now. Now its time to find one.

And i would be surprised if they can connect him with bribery etc. He strikes me as that kind of person who likes power over a bag of money.

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