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MechaStalin posted:The sick thing about this is that if FIFA were an American organization they would be politically protected and considered 'TBTF'. The sicker thing is that this is unironically only possible precisely because Americans don't give a poo poo about soccer so FIFA is less untouchable than it is anywhere else on the planet.
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Please tell me Friday's election requires Sepp to be present somewhere else Actually don't, it'll be much funnier if he's reelected two days before the indictment's unsealed
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May 27, 2015 18:58
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V. Illych L. posted:we'll see. i hope y'all are right, certainly RICO is very likely in the top 5 overreaching American federal laws, which is a high loving bar. It's the nuclear missile of conspiracy prosecutions. The very rare times somebody gets out from underneath a RICO indictment without flipping on a bigger fish is when the case is so mindbogglingly stupid or overbroad that a jury cannot convict with a straight face, because the law itself is written in such a way that everyone is guilty. Prosecutors can and do threaten small time defendants with RICO to get them to take pleas simply because a RICO prosecution is a nearly guaranteed prison sentence in a federal facility with no or limited parole. This, of course, is the case where everyone is guilty so our practice of indicting everything and letting God sort them out will actually work out great for once.
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May 28, 2015 00:17
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If the Swiss eventually rolled over for Europe / the US in the UBS case the chances of them standing up for Blatter are...not high.
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May 28, 2015 17:52
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A Pale Horse posted:The Swiss wouldn't even extradite noted child rapist Roman Polanski to the U.S., I doubt they'll extradite Blatter. Polanski's case was controversial, he has many friends and the offense was 40 years old. Also, rape was not what he was charged with. Blatter has no chance of contesting extradition if and when it happens.
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