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KEVIN MCCALLUM: Crooked football boss won’t easily be forgotten in SA
"This large man with ‘voracious appetites’ has left behind the smudge of his dirty, greedy hands on SA and 2010"
In an obituary on US football administrator and reluctant whistleblower Chuck Blazer, who died on Wednesday, the New York Times described him as "a large man with voracious appetites, not all of them in accordance with the law". His testimony, given after he was offered a choice of talking or serving time, was instrumental in bringing down the corrupt house Sepp Blatter built. As with Al Capone, Blazer was undone by the tax man. "On November 25 2013," reported the New York Times, "as part of a federal investigation into soccer-related improprieties that had started with his own failure to file a personal income tax return, he secretly pleaded guilty to 10 counts of criminal charges that included racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering." Blazer, with Jack Warner, ran Concacaf (the governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean region) and used it as a conduit to make themselves extremely rich. Warner has been banned for life by Fifa....
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