Report: FBI investigating Sepp Blatter as part of corruption probe
Sepp Blatter's fall from power could devolve even further into indignity.
Blatter, 79, made the astonishing revelation on Tuesday that he will resign as FIFA president, relinquishing a role that he has owned - in every sense of the word - since 1998.
The fallout, of course, has been substantial, with ABC reporters Josh Margolin and Susanna Kim dropping perhaps the most stunning bit of information in light of Blatter's announcement.
The duo reports that the Swiss administrator, who avoided charges in last week's sweeping indictment of several top-ranking FIFA officials by the U.S. Justice Department, is indeed being investigated by the FBI as part of that ongoing probe.
ABC has more details:
The FBI declined to comment because Blatter has not been publicly identified as a target of the investigation. The sources said the feds are conducting the FIFA probe the same way they would handle an old-school New York-style racketeering case.
"Now that people are going to want to save themselves, there’s probably a race to see who will flip on [Blatter] first," one source said, explaining how the feds typically try to get people to inform on their superiors.
"We may not be able to collapse the whole organization but maybe you don’t need to," one of the sources said.