Loretta Lynch – Declan Hill – Investigative Journalist & Academic

07NovNovember 7, 2017

It’s a Mob Trial: FIFA in America

New York - Here at the Brooklyn Federal Court House, one of the most significant legal trials in sports history is underway. Two-and-a-half years ago, Swiss Police kicked open the doors of the Baur-au-Lac Hotel in Zurich and began arresting high-ranking FIFA officials. After long stretches of legal wrangling - during which twenty-four officials pled guilty to a wide-range of crimes from fraud to money laundering to racketeering - today, the case for the officials who did not plead...

HSBC: A Get out of Jail-Free Pass

HSBC laundered money for criminals and thugs. with HSBC whistleblower Everett Stern. His work helped reveal the web of corruption within the bank. Today, on the release of the report that shows the US authorities did not press criminal charges against the bank's top executives despite the recommendation of their own staff, there will be lots of people will try to divert your attention from that fact: various lawyers and PR spin-meisters will emerge from under their rocks and to try...

Its Going to Get Really Bad

There will be more arrests in the FIFA scandal. I am not speaking of Loretta Lynch’s cheeky announcement this week in Zurich. I am not speaking of Jerome Valcke being relieved of his duties. I spoke this week with a number of key people with close connections with the US FBI investigation. What they have discovered in newly-gathered documents about certain key individuals in the soccer world is shocking. More pertinently, they now the internal documents to bring about these arrests. Stay tuned. It...