{"id":50002,"date":"2015-05-27T14:40:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T14:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/u-s-_indicts_world_soccer_officials_in_alleged_150_million_fifa_bribery_sca\/"},"modified":"2015-05-27T14:40:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T14:40:42","slug":"u-s-_indicts_world_soccer_officials_in_alleged_150_million_fifa_bribery_sca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50002","title":{"rendered":"(W Post) U.S. indicts world soccer officials in alleged $150 million FIFA bribery scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department unsealed a 47 count indictment early Wednesday charging 14 world soccer figures, including officials of FIFA, with racketeering, bribery, money laundering and fraud. Four of the accused have already pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement in a press release followed a round-up of officials of FIFA, the world soccer federation, at a swanky Zurich hotel where they were assembling for an important meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe indictment alleges corruption that is rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted both abroad and here in the United States,\u201d\u009d said Attorney General Loretta Lynch.  \u201cIt spans at least two generations of soccer officials who, as alleged, have abused their positions of trust to acquire millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/05\/27\/top-fifa-officials-arrested-in-international-soccer-corruption-investigation-according-to-reports\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department unsealed a 47 count indictment early Wednesday charging 14 world soccer figures, including officials of FIFA, with racketeering, bribery, money laundering and fraud. Four of the accused have already pleaded guilty. The announcement in a press release<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50002\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,168,200,119,114,128,450,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-globalization","category-law-legal-issues","category-sports","category-switzerland","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}