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FBI closing in on ex-Fifa bosses
http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2014-11-03/fbi-closing-ex-fifa-bosses<snip>
Former Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) executive member Chuck Blazer, once a close friend and confidant of Jack Warner, spent months compiling information for the FBI and IRS with secret devices hidden on his person, the New York Daily News has reported.
In an expose over the weekend, the paper reported that Blazer secretly taped conversation with officials from Fifa and other top sporting bodies with recording devices since 2011, after he agreed to help the FBI. Blazer’s cooperation can reportedly help the authorities secure criminal charges against powerful current and former Fifa executives.
It said Blazer, now 69 and gravely ill with colon cancer, is at the epicenter of a sprawling criminal investigation in which authorities are angling to link fraud and money-laundering to the highest levels of soccer around the world ahead of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
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