{"id":3927,"date":"2015-07-09T03:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/fifa-bans-former-executive-committee-member-chuck-blazer-for-life\/3927\/"},"modified":"2015-07-09T03:28:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T11:28:00","slug":"fifa-bans-former-executive-committee-member-chuck-blazer-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/fifa-bans-former-executive-committee-member-chuck-blazer-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Bans Former Executive Committee Member Chuck Blazer For Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Krishnadev Calamur<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

Chuck Blazer, then-CONCACAF general secretary, attends a news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on Feb. 14, 2005. FIFA banned him today for life over \"various acts of misconduct.\"<\/a><\/div>\n
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Chuck Blazer, then-CONCACAF general secretary, attends a news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on Feb. 14, 2005. FIFA banned him today for life over “various acts of misconduct.” Bernd Kammerer\/AP<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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FIFA<\/a> has banned its former executive committee member Chuck Blazer from taking part in any aspect of soccer for life.<\/p>\n

“Mr Blazer committed many and various acts of misconduct continuously and repeatedly during his time as an official in different high-ranking and influential positions at FIFA and CONCACAF,” FIFA said in a statement<\/a>. “In his positions as a football official, he was a key player in schemes involving the offer, acceptance, payment and receipt of undisclosed and illegal payments, bribes and kickbacks as well as other money-making schemes.”<\/p>\n

Blazer, if you recall, was the highest-ranking American in soccer’s governing body for years, and served as general secretary of CONCACAF, which runs the sport in North America and Central America, as well as the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

He was one of 14 FIFA figures indicted<\/a> by the Justice Department in May in connection with a corruption scheme that earned more than $150 million in bribes and kickbacks over the past two decades. Blazer, who has pleaded guilty and turned informant against corruption in FIFA, is said to have personally misappropriated $15 million<\/a> during that period.<\/p>\n

Today’s decision was based on an investigation by FIFA’s ethics committee.<\/p>\n

The corruption scandal at soccer’s governing body forced the resignation<\/a> in June of its chief, Sepp Blatter, who had been re-elected to another term as president just days earlier. He said he will stay on as president until a successor is elected.<\/p>\n

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Chuck Blazer, then-CONCACAF general secretary, attends a news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on Feb. 14, 2005. FIFA banned him today for life over \"various acts of misconduct.\"<\/a><\/div>\n
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Chuck Blazer, then-CONCACAF general secretary, attends a news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on Feb. 14, 2005. FIFA banned him today for life over “various acts of misconduct.” Bernd Kammerer\/AP<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

i<\/strong>toggle caption Bernd Kammerer\/AP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

FIFA<\/a> has banned its former executive committee member Chuck Blazer from taking part in any aspect of soccer for life.<\/p>\n

“Mr Blazer committed many and various acts of misconduct continuously and repeatedly during his time as an official in different high-ranking and influential positions at FIFA and CONCACAF,” FIFA said in a statement<\/a>. “In his positions as a football official, he was a key player in schemes involving the offer, acceptance, payment and receipt of undisclosed and illegal payments, bribes and kickbacks as well as other money-making schemes.”<\/p>\n

Blazer, if you recall, was the highest-ranking American in soccer’s governing body for years, and served as general secretary of CONCACAF, which runs the sport in North America and Central America, as well as the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

He was one of 14 FIFA figures indicted<\/a> by the Justice Department in May in connection with a corruption scheme that earned more than $150 million in bribes and kickbacks over the past two decades. Blazer, who has pleaded guilty and turned informant against corruption in FIFA, is said to have personally misappropriated $15 million<\/a> during that period.<\/p>\n

Today’s decision was based on an investigation by FIFA’s ethics committee.<\/p>\n

The corruption scandal at soccer’s governing body forced the resignation<\/a> in June of its chief, Sepp Blatter, who had been re-elected to another term as president just days earlier. He said he will stay on as president until a successor is elected.<\/p>\n

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