FIFA’s Blazer Cooperated in U.S. Soccer Bribery Probe
Sepp Blatter (L) taps shoulders of Chuck Blazer, on June 1, 2011 at the start of the 61st FIFA congress in Oerlikon near Zurich.
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When U.S. soccer evangelist Charles “Chuck” Blazer admitted he took bribes tied to the World Cup, he did so knowing he had a deal with the U.S. government to help bring charges that would shake the highest ranks of the sport.
Once one of the most powerful figures in soccer, Blazer traveled the world and kept luxury apartments in Miami, the Bahamas and New York’s Trump Tower. In 2013, he appeared in a locked Brooklyn, New York courtroom where he admitted to a central role in a wide-ranging corruption scheme at FIFA.