Sepp Blatter<\/a> has been holding the reigns since 1998.<\/p>\nAdditional reforms embrace a separation between political and management committees, diversity, independent members, integrity checks, and an overall greater transparency.<\/p>\n
“These reforms are moving FIFA towards improved governance, greater transparency and more accountability,” the FIFA Executive Committee said in a press release. “They mark a milestone on our path towards restoring FIFA’s credibility as a modern, trusted and professional sports organization.”<\/p>\n
Restoring credibility will be a long and difficult road for FIFA with Lynch in charge of the DOJ. She shows no signs of slowing her thorough investigation into the managing of the world’s most popular sport.<\/p>\n
“The Department of Justice is committed to ending the rampant corruption we have described amidst the leadership of international soccer,” Lynch affirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch is in the midst of disrupting perhaps one of the largest criminal syndicates in recent history as she leads the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation into FIFA, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association. On Thursday, Lynch unsealed a 92-count indictment against 16 defendants related to the continued FIFA corruption […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":33126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13,16],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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