Sports

Widespread corruption at Olympic games.

"Prior to securing the 2002 Winter Games, Salt Lake City failed four times in its bids. On its final successful attempt, the city spent more than $16 million dollars wooing the 100 members of the IOC (70 of which were personally flown to Salt Lake). Reports of undue and even illegal bribes resulted in four separate legal investigations, one of which was by the U.S. Department of Justice. The IOC’s own personal investigation resulted in ten of its members being expelled and another 10 sanctioned. (Interestingly enough, despite admitting its guilt in this corruption scandal and sanctioning its own members, the United States DOJ did not sentence any members of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee for any wrong doing.)"

IOC members are plutocrats engaged in promoting the state, so the law doesn't apply to them.