Fifa's Sepp Blatter 'under investigation in US' Fifa president Sepp Blatter is being investigated by US officials as part of their inquiry into corruption at the world football body, US media say.
The news came hours after Mr Blatter, 79, announced that he was stepping down from his role. US prosecutors launched a criminal inquiry last week, with seven Fifa officials arrested in Switzerland, part of a group of 14 people indicted. Two days after the arrests, Mr Blatter was re-elected president of Fifa. However, he said on Tuesday that it appeared the mandate he had been given "does not seem to be supported by everybody in the world of football".
Mr Blatter said Fifa needed profound restructuring, adding that he would remain in post until an extraordinary congress was called to elect a new president. Budweiser's Twitter Mentions Jumped 525% After FIFA's Sepp Blatter Quit. Amobee Brand Intelligence today tracked four major brand sponsors of FIFA—world soccer's embattled governing body—on Twitter during the hour before its president, Sepp Blatter, resigned in disgrace and the hour after he stepped down.
A quick hit: Budweiser tweets spiked by 525 percent from 207 to 1,296. Call it "The John Oliver Effect," after the HBO host last night promised to drink a Bud Light Lime if the brewer pulled its sponsorship. Sepp Blatter: From Defiant to Defeated in Four Fateful Days. Photo It must have been some sort of rotten long weekend for Sepp Blatter for him to decide, just days after his re-election Friday as FIFA’s president, that he didn’t want to run world soccer anymore, after all.
Only four short days before, Blatter was giving his acceptance speech after winning his fifth term, chest out and nearly doing the jig while blathering on about being the captain of FIFA’s ship. He said he would guide that ship through rocky waters to bring it safely into shore, where there would be beach soccer. Bribery Inquiry Drawing Closer to FIFA’s President, Sepp Blatter. Photo Federal authorities believe that Sepp Blatter’s top lieutenant at FIFA made $10 million in bank transactions that are central elements of the bribery scandal engulfing international soccer, United States officials and others briefed on the case said Monday.
The revelation puts the money trail closer to Mr. The FIFA criminal investigation got too close for Sepp Blatter to survive. (Fabrice Coffrini/Getty) FIFA President Sepp Blatter may have been re-elected to his fifth term in office last week, but a report from The New York Times on Monday set in motion a sequence of events that led to Sepp Blatter’s shocking announcement than he would resign his position.
An investigation opened by U.S. authorities last week — which led to the indictment of 14 FIFA officials on charges of bribery, racketeering and money laundering — found that Blatter’s right-hand man may have played a key role in the organization’s ongoing corruption problems. According to the Times story, FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke is alleged to have authorized a $10 million transfer — money U.S. officials say was used to bribe others into voting in favor of South Africa hosting the 2010 World Cup. Russia and Qatar’s World Cups Under Scrutiny after FIFA Chief Resigns. On December 2, 2010, the Zurich Exhibition Center was so packed with people waiting to hear who would host the World Cups in 2018 and 2022 that Qatar’s World Cup committee chairman Hassan Abdullah al-Thawadi could hardly see over the crowd.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter opened the envelope and announced that this tiny, blisteringly hot, non-soccer-playing nation would host the 2022 tournament. The Qataris in the room went wild but Thawadi said he was so stunned it took him a few moments to react. Josh Duggar’s pastor says Caitlyn Jenner is defying God - NY Daily News. The conservative pastor who claimed God can forgive Josh Duggar amid his molestation scandal says Caitlyn Jenner is defying the way God made her during a fire-and-brimstone Sunday Sermon.
Ronnie Floyd, the Duggar family’s pastor who heads the Pinnacle Cross Church in Arkansas, said Jenner is a sinner and should no longer be considered an American hero. God made two genders, and “there’s no fluidity to that,” he said. But hours after the scathing sermon, he told People that Josh Duggar, who is accused of molesting at least five underage girls when he was a teenager, can be forgiven for his wrongdoing. John Oliver Warned Us: FIFA Is ‘Grotesque’ The latest planned attack on the terror army could be playing right into their hands.
The Obama administration is being slammed from all sides for its failing strategy against ISIS—and rightly so. But amid all the scorn, one question has yet to be asked about the resiliency of the terror army, which, actually goes to the heart of its decade-old war doctrine. Namely: does ISIS actually win even when it loses? Fair Oaks homicide suspect tried to ‘test out’ bulletproof vest, victim’s family says. Miguel Martinez, 19, was hanging out with his friends last week in a Fair Oaks park when one of his companions fatally shot him, hoping to test out the reliability of a bulletproof vest, the victim’s brother said Tuesday.
Thomas Cline said that Martinez, his brother, was wearing a bulletproof vest when suspect Elijah Ray Lambert, 21, pulled the trigger. Elijah allegedly told Martinez, “Don’t worry bro,” before shooting him, according to Cline, who learned of the story from an eyewitness. Kim Richards Relapse: Mexican Wedding Fiasco Could Cost ‘RHOBH’ Star A Sweetheart Plea Deal In Criminal Case. Postal Worker Who Saved Woman From Carmichael Shooting Honored. CARMICHAEL (CBS13) — A postal carrier was honored for rescuing a woman who had been shot twice and getting her to safety in Carmichael.
It was a special delivery for a Sacramento postal carrier who was labeled a hero, for good reason. Scott Gallegos told CBS13 last month about how he saved a woman who had been shot twice at a Madison Avenue home. FIFA Bosses Get Rude Awakening With Arrests at Their Five Star Swiss Hotel. Soccer's international governing body FIFA was in crisis on Wednesday following the arrest of senior officials on corruption charges and the launch of criminal proceedings relating to the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in Russia and Qatar.
Seven men, including Jeffrey Webb who is FIFA vice-president and president of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf), were detained in dawn arrests at a hotel in Zurich, Switzerland, accused of receiving bribes worth $100 million. Swiss authorities acting on a request from the US also raided FIFA headquarters in Zurich, seized electronic data and documents, and launched criminal proceedings "against persons unknown on suspicion of mismanagement and of money laundering in connection with the criminal mismanagement and of money laundering in connection with the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 football World Cups. " The arrested officials now face extradition to the US. How the Duggars and Right Wing Home Schoolers are Handling Sexual Abuse. In a chart that was designed to show what sexual abuse was, and includes blaming the victim for "immodest dress" or having "evil friends", the victim is taken to task as the reason why the may have suffered an attack.
Bill Gothard, who's teaching is devoutly followed by many has been labeled a "cult" and a "brain washer" by children who grew up under the program. Bill Gothard created a cult, and he did a fine job of it. George W. Bush Did Something Much Worse Than Lie Us Into War. The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons, is rebuilding the facilities to make more and, according to the British government, could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as 45 minutes after the order is given.
The regime has long-standing and continuing ties to terrorist groups, and there are al Qaeda terrorists inside Iraq. This regime is seeking a nuclear bomb, and with fissile material could build one within a year.Radio Address of George W. Bush, September 28, 2002 Something critical is being lost in the torrent of pixels being spilled by the media as Jeb Bush wriggles haplessly, like some prehistoric insect trapped in amber, struggling to explain away, recast or rationalize his brother's hideous legacy. And although many Americans, for various reasons, don't want to face up to it, that is the truth. Inside the Malaysian jungle camps: Human cages, 139 suspected graves. Malaysian forensics teams on May 26 exhumed a body from a shallow grave at an abandoned camp used by human traffickers on the border with Thailand.
(AP) There were 139 suspected graves discovered in a mountainous region along the Thai-Malaysia border in what authorities believe are abandoned jungle camps used by human traffickers. The graves are a gruesome reminder of the dire migrant crisis afflicting thousands in Southeast Asia. “It is a very sad scene,” National Police Chief Khalid Abu Bakar told the Associated Press. California accepts historic offer by farmers to cut water usage by 25%
California’s drought has produced a plot twist too singular even for Chinatown: farmers volunteering to give up a quarter of their water. Scores of farmers in the delta of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers made the unprecedented offer on Friday in a deal to stave off even steeper mandatory cuts. Agricultural players have fiercely guarded their water rights since the 19th century, rebuffing competing claims from cities and other rivals in the so-called water wars, a web of intrigues immortalised in Roman Polanski’s Chinatown. The film’s fictional farmers never countenanced voluntarily cutting their water use but as California endures a fourth year of drought growers in the delta calculated it was the lesser evil. By promising to forfeit a quarter of this season’s water – by fallowing land or finding other measures to cut usage – they have averted harsher restrictions from state authorities.
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