Oops. FIFA, the corrupt soccer governing body that was paid to give Qatar the 2022 World Cup also has ties to Bill, Hillary and the Clinton Foundation. In fact, FIFA has given between $50,000 and $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation in recent years.
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The Clinton global charity has received between $50,000 and $100,000 from soccer’s governing body and has partnered with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association on several occasions, according to donor listings on the foundation’s website.
Several top FIFA executives were arrested Wednesday in Zurich and face corruption charges stretching back two decades, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Involvement with the embattled body extends beyond the foundation to Bill Clinton himself. The former president was an honorary chairman of the bid committee put together to promote the United States as a possible host nation for the 2018 or 2022 World Cup.
Not only did FIFA pay money to the Clinton Foundation, so too did Qatar, the Muslim country with abysmal human-rights records.
So try to follow along. FIFA donated up to $100,000 to the Clinton foundation, and after being rewarded the World Cup in 2022, Qatar donated millions to the Clinton foundation. But since they are Clinton’s, they got away with it.
The Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee, partnering with the State of Qatar, “committed to utilizing its research and development for sustainable infrastructure at the 2022 FIFA World Cup to improve food security in Qatar, the Middle East, and other arid and water-stressed regions throughout the world,” according to the Clinton Foundation website.
The cost of the two-year project is not listed on the Clinton Foundation website, but the Qatar 2022 committee gave the foundation between $250,000 and $500,000 in 2014 and the State of Qatar gave between $1 million and $5 million in previous, unspecified years.
FIFA, which has never been a bastion of ethics, was heavily criticized for awarding the 2018 and 2022 World Cup to Russia and Qatar, respectively, in part because of their abysmal human-rights records.