2. Dawn at the Baur au Lac
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2. Dawn at the Baur au Lac

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The FIFA Files di Open Source Network

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6:00 AM, May 27, 2015. Plain-clothes Swiss police walk into the lobby of the Baur au Lac, a five-star hotel in Zurich, carrying arrest warrants for seven of the most powerful officials in world football. The men are in town for FIFA's annual congress. They are led out covered by hotel bedsheets.

In this episode:

  • Who was arrested — Jeffrey Webb, Jack Warner's network, the men running the regional confederations
  • The 47-count US indictment unsealed in Brooklyn the same morning: $150 million in bribes over 24 years
  • US Attorney General Loretta Lynch's press conference — and why the United States had jurisdiction over Swiss arrests
  • Sepp Blatter wins re-election as FIFA president forty-eight hours later

Key documents cited:

  • US Department of Justice indictment, 27 May 2015 (E.D.N.Y.)
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