So FIFA got rid of the bribery charge from this administration by bribing this administration with a pointless award. Cool, cool.
The charge was ‘You didn’t bribe me’ and obviously now that they have, the charge has been dropped.
That’s what’s so great about bribery, if there’s any problem you just bribe some more.
Sorry poors, it’s just for rich people.
It’s a big fucking club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the club.
RIP Carlin
FIFA bribery charges dropped after Trump given bribe under scrutiny
Fixed the headline
They aren’t even trying to hide the corruption at this point.
Why bother hiding it? It’s not like Americans are doing anything about it.
If this goes much farther, in a few months they might spend a weekend waving signs around!
Let’s be fair, it’s very difficult to organise this type of thing. It’s not as if we are living in an age of instant communication and information…
It’s going to get much worse.
Consider, now that a number of high profile individuals and corporations have paid Trump off - those same people are going to be hawkish about others paying that price, since they’ll feel it isn’t fair they ‘had’ to but others don’t.
Now it’s not just a deal under the table, the players want to see the bribe happening, to ensure “fairness”.
We’re in for a hell of a ride.
The news has prompted scrutiny online, though there is no evidence of any connection between the award and prosecutors’ move to dismiss the charges.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
But it steps like a goose.
FIFA, IOC, and probably most of the sports associations are corrupt as fuck, especially with the ME countries sportswashing them too.
Corrupt criminals helping other corrupt criminals.
At least we’re getting a solid list for the gallows when the revolution kicks off lol
Hahaha is this for real?
It’s not the bribery that is infuriating, it’s the blatant openness of it allThis administrations brand is to sell government work (or non work) for personal favours and there literally accepting “exposure” as payment to signal how normalised they made it.
If you are a big enough name they don’t care how petty the bribe is. As long as it shows the world that they are open for this kind off business.
Every bribe, no matter how small is pure profit if you never owned what you’re selling.
My brain cannot handle this headline. What is “under scrutiny” modifying here?
The second paragraph of the article answers this. The headline could have been better, yes.
Corrupt as fuck
It would have been one good thing for FIFA leaders to get charged with bribery.
No, you don’t understand. They were actually being charged for not enough bribery.
What Futurama bullshit is this?
You got to hand it to Infantino. I thought that going lower then the “I feel a migrant worker” speech was impossible, but the cut off hands dooming earth award for Trump might just do it.
And there it is.
How corrupt can they get before just saying “we’re corrupt, deal with it?”
