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Former US FIFA Official Admits Taking Bribes In Selection Of French And South African World Cups
With the crackdown against FIFA corruption escalating with every passing day, just 24 hours after Sepp Blatter announced his unexpected resignation moments ago it was revealed that former US FIFA executive Chuck Blazer, who had been suspended in 2013 from CONCACAF amid corruption allegations and who became a confidential FBI informant, admitted to taking bribes when deciding the winners of the 1998 (France) and 2010 (South Africa) world cups.
The revelation was made when a November 25, 2013 transcript between Loretta Lynch and the former FIFA official was unsealed hours ago. While the full transcript (attached below) makes for a fascinating read, the key section is the following:
From 1997 through 2013, I served as a FIFA executive committee member. One of my responsibilities in that role was participating in the selection of the host countries for the World Cup. I also served as General Secretary of CONCACAF from 1990 through December of 2011 , and was responsible for, among other things, participating in the negotiations for sponsorship and media rights.
During my association with FIFA and CONCACAF, among other things, I and others agreed that I or a co-conspirator would commit at least two acts of racketeering activity. Among other things, I agreed with other persons in or around 1992 to facilitate the acceptance of a bribe in conjunction with the selection of the host nation for the 1998 World Cup.
Beginning in or about 1993 and continuing through the early 2000s, I and others agreed to accept bribes and kickbacks in conjunction with the broadcast and other rights to the 1996, '1998, 2000, 2002, and 2003 Go1d Cups. Beginning in or around 2004 and continuing through 2011, I and others on the FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the selection of South Africa as the host nation for the 2010 World Cup.
It is worth noting that earlier today, South Africa's sports minister Fikile Mbalula said that the previously disclosed payment of $10 million made to the Caribbean Football Union in 2008, was not a bribe and was not made to assure his country hosted the 2010 world cup. The US indictment released by America’s department of justice last week alleged that: "a high-ranking Fifa official caused payments … totalling $10m – to be wired from a Fifa account in Switzerland to a Bank of America correspondent account in New York … controlled by Jack Warner”.
Blazer's sworn testimony clearly confirms that South Africa did pad some bank accounts to make sure it was awarded the 2010 world cup.
It is unclear as of yet who may have been the source of funding for the 1992 bribe - some 23 years ago - to assure France was the recipient of the 1998 world cup.
Blazer not only admits to taking bribes but to evading taxes while a resident of New York:
Between 2005 and 2010, while a resident of New York, New York, I knowingly and willfully failed to file an income tax return and failed to pay income taxes. In this way, I intentionally concealed my true income from the IRS, thereby defrauding the IRS of income tax owed. I knew that my actions were wrong at the time.
For those curious, the residence in question was in the Trump Tower, where in a $6,000/month apartment he kept his cats.
And while it is only a matter of time before even more such transcripts are unsealed revealing the acceptance of bribes by FIFA officials to award the hosting of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively, following promptly by the stripping of these countries hosting rights, one perhaps even more stunning revelation is that the abovementioned Chuck Blazer had, and still has a blog, titled Travels with Chuck Blazer and his Friends... (hosted by blogspot) which was launched in 2007 and whose most recent post was in February 2014, or after the above sworn deposition took place and Blazer already knew he was facing a indictment.
Just who are these "friends" of Blazer's? These are some examples:
Here is the 450 pound Chuck with Miss Universe:
Chuck with Vladimir Putin in 2010. This is what Blazer said of that meeting:
On August 5th, I had the pleasure of visiting with the Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin, in his private office in the Russian Federation Office Building. It was a very busy day in the nation's capital, with the Prime Minister's itinerary changed, keeping him grounded to his office, due to the rash of forest fires sweeping the Moscow region. That morning I received a call inviting me to come to the House of the Russian Government and have a chat.
Primed and ready for the opportunity, I arrived on time and was brought to a room where I met the very skilled translator who was specialized in simultaneous translation; not with headphones and equipment, but by softly speaking in the complimentary language while each speaker was saying their piece. We chatted informally for a while and then my Exco colleague Sports Minister Mutko joined us, giving us the opportunity to practice and establish a working cadence of translation.
About an hour passed, while the PM had his cabinet in his office to consider how to put out the fires and to reduce the tension and the dense smoke that filled the city. Rain would have helped, but the weatherman brought no relief and the politicians needed to continue to do their best to fight the fires while battling mounting negative public sentiment. Minister Mutko left the room and went to check on when we would be received. While he was gone, I was ushered into a small receiving room with three large comfortable chairs. I calmly waited on the one with my name placed by protocol to make sure I was seated in the right place. All of a sudden, word came to the room that we were to move to another place to actually meet. So, with the translator in tow, we walked down a long corridor and through a room full of cabinet members and key officials. As the large doors to his private inner sanctum swung open, I was greeted by a smiling and very affable leader of the government, Mr. Putin himself.
A firm handshake and a personable smile set the tone for what turned out to be a very special experience. He guided me to sit on a leather couch in the near right corner of the room. At right angles to that couch was another matching one where he took up his position so that we flanked the corner of a large wood bordered coffee table. On my couch, sitting near enough to be part of the conversation was the translator; while on Mr. Putin's was Vitaly Mutko. The conversation began in a normal enough way, each of us thanking the other for making time for the visit. Genial welcomes continued until at one moment, he looked at me with a very serious gaze and said, without cracking a smile, "You know, you look like Karl Marx!"
I guess I could have responded to his observation in any of a dozen unpredictable ways. Instead, I simply winked at him and said, "I know". This brought an immediate response with him lifting his right arm up in the air and thrusting it forward to give me my first High-5 from a Prime Minister. I must admit that it was unique after all we have heard about this famous leader of the Russian Republic with a work history in the KGB. So, who knew what to expect? I can tell you that this began a half hour exchange of wit, charm and effective communications.
Shortly after the High-5, he had some questions about my blog. Yes, this same one you are reading now. He asked how it began. I told him about the World Cup in Germany and the fact that I had many special experiences which I wanted to share with people who didn't have the same opportunities. So, I began Inside the World Cup, which ran until the final whistle in Berlin.
Shortly thereafter, Travels with Chuck Blazer was born. I still had many experiences to share, albeit not accompanied by as much writing as during the World Cup. Instead, more pictures, since recreational writing at times can be very demanding in the face of other obligations. Following discussion on other topics, Mr. Putin rose and walked to a wall behind the table where his cabinet had just met. He slid open two massive doors, revealing a beautiful wooden inlaid map of the whole of Russia, which filled the expanse of the largest wall in the room. As he did this, he talked about a vacation he was about to go on during the waning days of summer. He said that security normally doesn't like him talking about his plans in advance, but he wanted to share with me some of the plans he had in mind. He walked from the western edge of the map where his St. Petersburg home and Moscow were located and walked to the right towards Siberia and great river deltas and continental roadways being connected. He talked of the things he planned to do, but I must admit I thought he was just trying to show me how very large an 11 time zone land mass of Russia is, when walking from the map's western edge to the eastern perimeter.
Before returning to the table, he posed the question, "If I send you pictures from my trip, will you post them in your blog and then what will you do?". I told him yes, the pictures would definitely appear and I would change the name of the blog to "Travels with Chuck Blazer and his Friends". Indeed, what he was telling me was the real preview of his trip. So, I now happily do what I committed to him and share with you the pictures he has been kind enough to send to me. You will note the new title of the blog has now reflected the pictures from my friend. I hope this opens up my forum to allow for other generous contributions of the people I have had the pleasure to meet in my very special role with FIFA.
And here is Chuck with Bill Clinton and a random blonde:
Here is Chuck with Hillary:
Chuck with UEFA head Michel Platini
Pirate Chuck with a nurse:
Chuck with a stripper
And so on: more here.
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OMG the tragedy of Soccer.
Kick the ball, yea!
Bounce the ball, yea!
Gee, if Hillary took bribes while she was Secretary of State,
I would expect a really big stink in the media about it.
A jew with his fat fingers in the honeypot? Unpossible!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/the-rise-and-fall-of-chuck-blazer-t...
"And Blazer? He has raked in more than $21 million from the sport, much of it paid to offshore shell companies. He flew around the world in the first-class cabin, lived in an $18,000-a-month apartment high above the glitziest stretch of New York’s Fifth Avenue, and relaxed in a luxury condo in the Bahamas — on soccer’s dime. With a huge unruly mass of bushy hair and beard, and a broad toothy grin over a prodigious belly, he palled around with the globe’s glamorous and powerful, including Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton, Pope John Paul II, and Nelson Mandela.
Much of Blazer’s wealth and influence can be traced back to an extraordinary contract he made with the organization that runs soccer from Panama to Canada, the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football, or CONCACAF. It entitled him to 10% — under his unilateral interpretation — of just about every penny the organization brought in. That document provided him an intoxicating personal incentive to grow the sport, earning him a life of spectacular luxury and an unforgettable nickname: Mr. Ten Percent."
He will get to keep most of his token loot and do no jail time, its how the protection racket works for Wall St and these guys.
But the rest of the gentilemen go down in chains.
These actions by the USSA will further tick off Central and South America and Europe as the USSA perv walks away free with his loot, while their own are sent to the rock quarry for hard labor.
Right now the actions of the USSA remind me of Hitler's crazy directives while he was in the bunker under Berlin.
What I find amazing is how much the Swiss are in the back pocket of the USSA. They will hurt themselves more than anybody else. As smart money will move to Singapore etc and rest of Asia instead.
How are bribes any different from the tax breaks, city built stadiums and other incentives given to American football team owners to get them to relocate?
What do you mean?
- like Carol Rosenbloom (jew), moving the Rams, first, to Anahiem, then to St. Louis (and only after he 'traded' the Baltimore Colts to get the Rams with the money he won from betting AGAINST his own team, vs. the Jets at 18 point favorites & thus, point shaving the game, which MANY Hall of Fame Colts such as Bubba Smith, have testified to, in SBIII)?
- like Irsay (jew), moving the Baltimore Colts to Indy?
- like Art Modell (jew), moving the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore?
- like Al Davis (jew) moving the Raiders from Oakland to Los Angeles, then, back to Oakland?
- like the Glazer (jew) family, trying as hard as they can to get the hell out of Tampa?
- like Ziggy Wilf (jew), trying as hard as he can to get the Vikings out of Minny (until he finally got his taxpayer funded stadium deal)?
That's just the appetizers...
You left out:
- like Georgia Frontiera (jew), arranged the suspiciously convenient "accidental" drowning of her husband, screwed his son and hier over on the will, and moved the Rams to St. Louis. She was also a witch.
I love the beginning of that article:
"In the middle of 1989, suburban soccer dad Chuck Blazer had just lost his job, had no income, and was struggling with debt.
But he did have a few things going for him: He was audacious, with a keen eye for opportunity; he was a splendid salesman; and he knew a vast amount about the world’s most popular sport."
Yeah, he had a few things going for him, a psychopathic grifter core that he decided to harness to full effect. Working and producing is for the goys. From now on he was going to operate according to the tenets of the Talmud.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
I guess he found out that the way to make money is corruption. He obviously failed the other way since he didnt have good business sense.
Amazing how he took the skills that almost bankrupted him the first time and left him without a job and he became such an effendi later.
Spent most of it on cheeseburgers, by the look of him.
Tyler, this article is a sort of cheap shot on France, as France had been selected (12 votes againt 7) DESPITE the bribery, which was not in favor of France, but in favor of Morocco.
As often concerning France, in ZH, the article is unfair and biased.
If chuck were to attempt to run 10 meters, he would die of a heart attack
He's the man!
Sure seems to be having a good time.
I imagine now that everyone knows he's the snitch they aren't though...
That might explain why he dies just before talking about the Killary bribes.
They probably didn't even need to do the good cop/bad cop with this dude.
Probably broke down as soon as they brought him in the office and gave him "an FBI monogrammed box of Kleenex."
Then...since he was on THEIR payroll now...
Try 10 f**king steps pal. What a fat piece of shit pig.
The conversation began in a normal enough way, each of us thanking the other for making time for the visit. Genial welcomes continued until at one moment, he looked at me with a very serious gaze and said, without cracking a smile, "You know, you look like Karl Marx!"
Hard not to love Putin. "without cracking a smile."
Wow....it's a good thing the same watchdogs don't look into the BCS....
....or, even worse, good thing they don't look into the guys who get paid to "look the other way" with steriod abuse in Texas High School Football, along with rankings, bracketing, grade gifting, etc. hip hip horray for the Katy (West Houston) Tigers and their new $69.5 million dollar stadium while their academics slide into the toilet.
Took um, looks like he insisted upon it.
Geez that fat fucker looks like a hairy soccer ball himself...no wonder he got the gig
"Always watch oit for the guy who is having too much fun."
I mean two years on the payroll of the FBI...yeah, I would have put on a few pounds too.
That guy has the entire world of soccer on a thumb drive!
Next report ''Officials took bribes to give Russia WC''. Russia removed from WC site.
You can bet on that.
Taking bribes??? Is that what Congress does all the time from PACS? It was even sanctioned by the USSC.
Swiss Banks, the Cayman Islands, the Clintons...what doesn't the FBI know now?
The only country that sucks as soccer is (drum roll please)...the USA!
Well, THEY waited a long time to release that "news" from November 25, 2013 - should be interesting the next view weeks...
"Just in time for Peak Payoff."
No wonder German Bunds are getting hammered here. "That was the collateral."
Corzine is now with FIFA?!
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
What a bunch of cock suckers.... was that Billery above?
They suck one cock and you calll them cocksuckers?
That is what Putin was probably doing to make certain Russia was awarded the World Cup. Along with some Rubles no doubt!
Hey, let's take back medals from World cup 1998 and 2010=)
They probably will, so as to get all the sheeple wrapped up in the controversy, and not paying attention to Zion and their "magic" rabbit producing hat.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
Taking back the medals is not going to fly with millions of EU soccer fans. The USSA is taking on the wrong folks.
In other news, The USA demands that FIFA rename the sport to SOCCER.
America said they would rename football, to Crotchball.
He seems like a fun-loving guy who gets along well with Bill and Hillary. I wonder what cabinet post he'll get...
He is clearly practicing to be Secretary of State.
I don't know who the fat dude is, but all the rest belong in jail.
Chuck should be tied to a moving treadmill, supported so he can't fall down and made to run , until his chubby little legs fall off or his heart blows up like a M-80
So does that mean we get to replay the WC final? We can beat Spain next time.
Criminals hang out with criminals?
I'm shocked!
You think any of this would have come out had the USA got the 2018 bid for the WC?
LOL
all pro sports are corrupt and probably rigged
when kids with the talent to play with balls can earn $50 million or more the source of the funding is corruption
dumb niggers and white knuckleheads who can barely speak two sentences earning record incomes
circus for the dumbest of all masses who still think they're opinion makes a difference
Perfect example. That retard Hernandez, but he is sitting in prison where he belongs
Can he even kick a ball?
Apparently he kick balls.
"Who's throwing games, who are the big bettors, what are the venues, who launders the money, what are the Swiss Banks involved"...talk about the gift that keeps giving.
Have to give the FBI two thumbs up on this one.
Red card this fat fuck.
He just learned like Dimon,Corzine, Blankfuck, Thain et al that corruption is the way to success in America today
Calm down, nothing new. Soccer is a big money business and everyone in the rest of the world knows that the FIFA has been involved into corruption for a very long time.
Life's lotto winner
The big banks had to be the biggest bribers, the Stadium BS was more money than everything.
The nation with the most corrupt public officials willing to create the most debt always win because TV rights pale in comparison to the stadium debt generated.
South Africa will empty their gold & platinum mines before paying off their stadium debt. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/23/south-africa-spent-3-bil...
Brazil will run out of offshore oil before paying off their debt http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2015/03/31/brazil-left-with-expensive-st...
Ah, for the days when a rope and a tree permanently took care of such problems.
Hillary does it!! What's the prob?
I want that rock'n job! How do I turn into Santa Claus and get bribes and stuff?
WTF, Chuck?
10 to 1 that guy is pushing up daisies long before he ever sees the inside of a jail cell.
Is it just me? Hillary looks like a rabid wombat in most of her pictures.
Everywhere one looks corruption but not one arrest of a US congressperson or Wall St. executive!
Everywhere one looks corruption but not one arrest of a US congressperson or Wall St. executive!
is he a lifetime club member of the Clinton Fund?
It is bribe when $10 Million is exchanged...it is fiscal poplicy when $10 Trillion is handed out to the crooks on Wall Street!
So this was while he was in peak playing shape eh?
Has the guy ever seen a soccer ball...or his own balls for that matter?