Tim Johnson at the Miami Herald writes on the growing impact on the FIFA scandal. Jack Warner pictured above was the former FIFA Vice President who turned himself in to Trinidad police shortly after they issued an arrest warrant. He was released on $2.5 Million bail. Wonder where that money came from??
A sprawling U.S. criminal probe into the “World Cup of fraud” within global soccer touched hard on Latin America and the Caribbean and made clear that many disgusted fans were hungering for a housecleaning.
Hardly anyone came to the defense of the busted soccer federation bosses, who came from Argentina, Brazil, the Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela.
In this May 14, 2015 photo, Alejandro Burzaco, right, president of Torneos y Competencias, talks to a goalkeeper and a Conmebol delegate moments before the cancellation of the Copa Libertadores soccer match between Boca Juniors and River Plate in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A US Justice Department indictment was announced Wednesday, May 27, 2015, against nine FIFA officials and several corporate executives for racketeering, conspiracy and corruption. Burzaco is one of the sports marketing executives charged. | Victor R. Caivano AP