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FIFA Officials Busted In Huge Soccer Corruption Sweep

Also: Penn State frat suspended over secret Facebook page and Rick Santorum to run for president.

The Only One Not Getting Hauled In Is President Sepp Blatter

Corruption and FIFA go together like slide tackles and dramatic flops. Which is why it was not totally surprising that on Wednesday (May 27), the world soccer governing body’s top six officials were arrested in an early morning sting operation at a fancy Swiss resort where FIFA was holding its annual meeting. The arrest came after a three-year FBI investigation that could end up with the U.S. Justice Department filing federal corruption charges against as many as 14 high-ranking FIFA members in an alleged scheme to use U.S. banks to pay bribes in bids for World Cups and media deals totaling millions. Curiously, FIFA’s president for the last 17 years and one of the most powerful men in sports, Sepp Blatter, was not arrested or indicted, though more charges could be coming.

Penn State Frat Bounced For Three Years Over Secret Facebook Page

Kappa Delta Rho’s Penn State chapter will be off campus for at least three years after officials withdrew recognition on Tuesday. An investigation found that some members used a secret Facebook page to post images of naked, unconscious women, drugs, hazing and underage drinking. Officials said they took action upon uncovering "a persistent series of deeply troubling activities within the fraternity," including the alleged repeated harassment of two women and forcing pledges to participate in boxing matches and plank with bottle caps on their elbows.

Colorado Theater Shooter Obsessed With Killing Since Childhood

Before he opened fire in a Colorado movie theater in July 2012, killing 12 people and wounding 70, gunman James Holmes, 27, told his psychiatrist that he’d had an "obsession to kill since I was a kid," which had become more realistic with age. An officer testifying in Holmes’ murder trial uncovered the details of what was in the 29-page notebook the shooter sent to his psychiatrist for the first time in court on Tuesday. He added that Holmes wrote elsewhere that he had thought of multiple ways to kill, including nuclear weapons and biological warfare, though he eventually decided that "terrorism isn’t the message… the message is, there is no message." Defense lawyers have said Holmes suffers from schizophrenia and was not in control of his actions at the time.

Quick Take: Could Rick Santorum be the GOP’s lucky #7? The former U.S. Senator and 2012 presidential aspirant is expected to announce another White House bid on Wednesday. Santorum, 57, won the important Iowa caucus and 10 other states in his previous presidential run, though he faces stiff competition from fellow Evangelical aspirants already in the race, including former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

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