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I think in this case the difference is that FIFA doesn't yet a lot of political power in the US compared to Europe and South America, but was in the process of
by a_humean 11y ago
I think in this case the difference is that FIFA doesn't yet a lot of political power in the US compared to Europe and South America, but was in the process of significantly expanding its influence to the US, which drew the attention of the investigators who could act without expending domestic political capital. One question often raised in Europe and in particular countries that feel hard done by FIFA, like the UK, is why it took the US to investigate and prosecute when much of the corruption is taking place at our front door. This is largely European, South American, and African corruption that has some US based proxies mixed in that give the US investigations a way in.
- ivanca 11y agoNope, this is a large amount of money, my guess is that someone at the feds said "we want a cut" and someone at FIFA said: "give money to the US feds, they don't even like football (soccer?) that much, why?"
- ivanca 11y agoDown votes haha, so predictable, it's so cute when people want to believe their gov is the good one doing things to save the world from corruption. Nope, everything a organization as big as FBI does is because something is damaging them. The church systematically raping children is not more important than your money, sadly.
- jedmeyers 11y agoYeah, what you're doing right now is called "reverse cargo cult". Not only you know that your fake airplanes are made from straw / your country's government is corrupted but you also claim that the real airplanes are also made from straw / other functional governments are completely corrupted.