Argentina lawyer named in FIFA trial commits suicide - police

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

NOVEMBER 15, 2017 / 2:46 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Reuters Staff

BUENOS AIRES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Argentine lawyer for a government-run soccer television programme ran in front of a Buenos Aires train and committed suicide late on Tuesday, hours after being accused in a New York court of receiving bribes, police said.

Jorge Delhon, attorney for the Futbol Para Todos (Soccer for All) programme, received bribes from the end of 2011 to 2014, according to testimony by the former head of sports marketing company Torneos y Competencias, Alejandro Burzaco, as recorded in a court transcript seen by Reuters.

The driver of the train told police a man later identified as Delhon, 50, ran along the tracks in Lanus, Buenos Aires, the local police department said in a statement that called the death a suicide.

The driver honked and tried to brake, but the man was run over, the statement said.


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[Codeine]

1. Own goal. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Chris Steele uncovered FIFA crimes & Trump-Russia dossier information

Here is the long article, which is really excellent:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/15/how-trump-walked-into-putins-web-luke

Steele discovered that Fifa corruption was global. It was a stunning conspiracy. He took the unusual step of briefing an American contact in Rome, the head of the FBI’s Eurasian serious crime division. This “lit the fuse”, as one friend put it, and led to a probe by US federal prosecutors. And to the arrest in 2015 of seven Fifa officials, allegedly connected to $150m (£114m) in kickbacks, paid on TV deals stretching from Latin America to the Caribbean. The US indicted 14 individuals.

...

Steele’s sources offered one final devastating piece of information. They alleged that Trump’s team had co-ordinated with Russia on the hacking operation against Clinton. And that the Americans had secretly co-paid for it.

[sandensea]

3. And the brother of the guy that bribed him, is now Argentina's Security Minister.

Eugenio Burzaco - a 'law-and-order', shoot first-and-ask questions later type (especially if the suspect is colored) - is the younger brother of Alejandro Burzaco, a leading figure in the FIFAgate scandal.

He was arrested in Italy a couple of years ago at the request of U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch for having bribed FIFA officials millions to secure broadcast rights for the 2014 World Cup.

I should note that Burzaco's TyC sports broadcaster is co-owned by the Clarín Media Group - whose favorable coverage of right-wing candidate Mauricio Macri proved decisive in his narrow win in 2015.

Macri returned the favor by privatizing televised football rights this year, and selling them to a Fox/Turner/Clarín consortium (which includes Burzaco's TyC).

One hand washes the other.

Thanks for posting this, Judi - and for your tireless Latin America research.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Good grief! Brother of Macri's Security Minister helped him screw himself royally. Heavy hitters!

There should be no doubt in anyone's mind what kind of criminal class has managed to get control of governments, and put them at the disposal of soulless fascists.

Absolutely unexpected news you bring to this increasingly awful situation!

One way or another, it's about time the citizens who are bankrolling these amoral ####s find out what kind of damage they can expect from them.

Thank you, sandensea, so much for giving depth and far more dimension to this new event. It's priceless seeing beyond the surface.

[sandensea]

5. You're welcome, Judi. It really is a shame.

A former official who took bribes is dead, while Alejandro Burzaco - one of the top culprits in the FIFAgate bribery scandal - keeps his money in Switzerland, with his pudgy little brother as Security Minister.

And now he's cashing in on Argentine pay-per-view football rights as well - thanks to Macri.

Macri, as you know, got rid of Cristina Kirchner's Football For All program - which cost taxpayers 75 cents per viewer - and replaced it with pay-per-view (controlled by Fox, Turner, Clarín - and our friend Burzaco) at $20+ a pop.

$20 a game is a lot in a country where most people earn $1,000-$2,000 a month. Argentine football fans have responded accordingly, crowding into (and outside) bars to watch something they used to get for free in the comfort of their own living room until a few months ago:

Fans in Buenos Aires crowd outside bars to save the $20 pay-per-view fees. And they're not lining Burzaco's pockets.