A briefcase. A hotel room. An envelope slid under a door. This is how the biggest deals in world football have been done for thirty years — not in boardrooms, but in back channels. This episode follows the money.

In this episode:

• The architecture of FIFA corruption — the regional confederations, the executive committee, and the voting blocs that made it work
• Jack Warner and the Caribbean: $10 million in bribes traced through a single career
• How South American TV rights deals — Traffic Sports USA, the middlemen, the kickbacks — became the primary vehicle for a quarter-century of payments
• Why FIFA's self-policing structure made detection nearly impossible

Key documents cited:

• US Department of Justice superseding indictment, December 2015
• Cleary Gottlieb compliance analysis
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