Quote: (05-28-2015 08:54 AM)VolandoVengoVolandoVoy Wrote:
Quote: (05-28-2015 08:40 AM)African.horn Wrote:
Corruption aside, I find the notion of non-Americans being dragged back to America to serve sentencing for really worrying. Despite them contravening the law, it's in relation to a Swiss based corporation on European soil. They just can't help themselves but get involved.
Official reason being given is they used US Dollars and some American banks.
There was a lot more that went on in the USA than an IP address or a bank transfer.
This article gives some good detail on the beginning of the case and the key informant, a fat greedy American soccer dad who was president of CONCACAF.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...-fifa.html
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By several accounts, Warner subsequently became less than circumspect about Blazer’s considerable excesses. Word of them reached the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn. The day came in November 2011 when agents from the FBI and the IRS approached Blazer as he cruised a Manhattan street in a motorized scooter. The IRS takes a very dim view of those who pilfer millions and do not even file their taxes for a decade.
As was first reported by the New York Daily News, the agents offered Blazer a simple proposition: “We can take you away in handcuffs now—or you can cooperate.”
By the News’s account, the agents subsequently presented Blazer with a keychain containing a miniature microphone and directed him to record a series of meetings with FIFA officials.
Basically FIFA officials were running an international criminal conspiracy similar to the Mafia. One of their bases of operations was the USA.
Blazer could be consdered a Capo or underboss. Blatter would be the Capo de Tutti Capi, Boss of Bosses, the real Don.
It is completely appropriate to have the USA prosecute this case.
Under RICO and other laws, the bosses of a criminal conspiracy have joint responsibilities for any and all criminal activities carried out by their co conspirators, whether or not they directly ordered or participated in those actions.
The US has cooperated in the past with Italy for tackling the Mafia in both countires. I'm also wondering if FIFA did something as well to get the Swiss authorities really angry with them. They don't seem very reluctant to help the US in this case.