with this corruption. this was the headline of the new york times today. fifa officials arrested on corruption charges, seth bladder isn t among them. it had to be made clear. the surprise to me is two things, the first is that fifa, any multibillion dollar global corporation is being held to account for their corruption. that in and of itself is a shocker, something that drops the jaw. the second part i think we need to look at is that they were able to keep this so secret and do this in a way that even leading members of fifa said, that they thought this year s fifa congress would be boring or even more boring than usual. and yet the united states was able to pull off a transatlantic sting involving swiss authorities, using anti-terror statutes given to the justice department after 9/11 to go after fifa, i mean, this isn t just a crazy story. i mean, this is a movie for goodness sakes.
devil. the big surprise here is not the allegations embedded. the shock is that it s happened. that some accountability has been brought to the organization. that s the thing that everybody around the world, around the world tonight and all day, people going, i can t believe they did it they ve arrested these people? it s become a cliche over the last two decades about fifa being corrupt. it s an eye role. people in the international olympic committee look at fifa and say, you guys are corrupt. seth bladder is so identified with this corruption. this was the headline of the new york times today. fifa officials arrested on corruption charges, seth bladder isn t among them. it had to be made clear. the surprise to me is two things the first is that fifa any multibillion dollar global corporation is being held to account for their corruption. that in and of itself is a
seth bladder is so identified with this corruption. this was the headline of the new york times today. fifa officials arrested on corruption charges, seth bladder isn t among them. it had to be made clear. the surprise to me is two things, the first is that fifa, any multibillion dollar global corporation is being held to account for their corruption. that in and of itself is a shocker, something that drops the jaw. the second part i think we need to look at is that they were able to keep this so secret and do this in a way that even leading members of fifa said, that they thought this year s fifa congress would be boring or even more boring than usual. and yet the united states was able to pull off a transatlantic sting involving swiss authorities, using anti-terror statutes given to the justice department after 9/11 to go after fifa, i mean, this isn t just a crazy story. i mean, this is a movie for goodness sakes. i want to be clear here,