Red card : how the U.S. blew the whistle on the world's biggest sports scandal

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Red card : how the U.S. blew the whistle on the world's biggest sports scandal

Title remainder

how the U.S. blew the whistle on the world's biggest sports scandal

Statement of responsibility

Ken Bensinger

Creator

• Bensinger, Ken

Author

• Bensinger, Ken

Subject

• Criminal investigation -- United States
• Fédération internationale de football association -- Corrupt practices
• Soccer -- Corrupt practices
• Soccer -- Management | Corrupt practices

Language

eng

Summary

• "The definitive account of the FIFA scandal, the biggest international corruption case of recent years, touching dozens of countries and spearheaded by U.S. investigators, published on the eve of the biggest sporting event on the planet, soccer's World Cup"--
• The FIFA case began with an IRS agent's review of an American soccer official's tax returns. It led to a huge worldwide corruption scandal that crossed continents and reached the highest levels of the soccer's world governing body in Switzerland. Bensinger shows that this corruption existed for decades before American law enforcement officials began to dig. Nearly every aspect of the planet's favorite sport was corrupted by bribes, kickbacks, fraud, and money laundering. Not even the World Cup was safe from corruption. And it is far from over. -- adapted from jacket

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

Dewey number

796.334068

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

GV943.55.F44

LC item number

B46 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography