Welcome back to Heists, Hustles, and Homicide, my little crime crew...it’s your favorite host, Steve, and this week’s Wrap Sheet is going fully unhinged.

We’re breaking down the FIFA scandal, and not the polite, press-conference version. This is the loud, sarcastic, laugh-through-the-pain deep dive into how soccer’s governing body turned the world’s most popular sport into a global crime syndicate.

We start in the early days of soccer - low scores, chaotic rules, questionable officiating, and fans who treated ties like moral victories. From there, we dig into how FIFA began as a small good-ol’-boys club before João Havelange flipped the table, bribed ignored countries for votes, and turned FIFA into a global juggernaut with unlimited power and very limited oversight.

That power quickly became money - a lot of it - thanks to sponsorships, TV rights, and corporate partnerships that funneled billions through Swiss banks, shell companies, and “development programs” that somehow turned into beach houses.

We unpack the role of Adidas power broker Horst Dassler and the creation of ISL - the marketing company that doubled as FIFA’s kickback vending machine - and how corruption went from accidental to industrial.

Then comes Sepp Blatter, the ultimate bureaucratic survivor, who didn’t invent the corruption but perfected it. Under his watch, bribery became institutionalized, scandals were quietly settled, and FIFA learned it didn’t need to change - it just needed better lawyers.

We break down the absurd decisions to award World Cups to Russia and Qatar, the mysteriously “destroyed” computers, and why playing soccer in desert-oven temperatures was somehow less important than who was wiring money to whom.

Things escalate when Ireland gets robbed in one of the worst officiating disasters in World Cup history - and FIFA responds by paying $7.1 million in what can only be described as international hush money.

That’s when the FBI enters the story - treating FIFA not like a sports organization, but like organized crime with shin guards. RICO charges, wire fraud, money laundering - the kind of legal heat you don’t attract unless you’re running an actual criminal enterprise.

And finally, we meet Chuck Blazer - the man, the myth, the walking deli counter - who lived large, flipped fast, wore a wire disguised as a keychain, and famously rented a $6,000-a-month Trump Tower apartment… for his cats.

The arrests that followed were surreal: FIFA executives dragged out of luxury hotels wrapped in white sheets like confused bathrobe fugitives - and FIFA pretending the whole thing came as a complete shock.

This isn’t just a scandal.

It’s a case study in how corruption works when everyone at the top benefits.

And as always, we end with a teaser for next week’s episode - Operation Oxy Alley, where Florida Man energy meets prescription-pill chaos.

For decades, FIFA presented itself as the guardian of the world’s game - the final authority on fairness, competition, and global unity through soccer. But behind closed doors, that image quietly collapsed.

In this episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide, we peel back more than a century of history to expose how FIFA evolved from a modest governing body into one of the most corrupt institutions in sports history. What began as a mission to standardize rules became a sprawling criminal enterprise fueled by bribery, patronage, and unchecked power.

This is not a story about bad referees or controversial calls.

It’s a story about systems - how money, loyalty, and silence reshaped world soccer from the inside out.

1. How FIFA was founded in 1904 - and why its structure made corruption almost inevitable
2. The moment money entered the game and changed everything
3. How development funds became political leverage
4. The rise of Sepp Blatter and the culture of entitlement
5. Brown-envelope bribes, destroyed evidence, and quiet “loans” that made scandals disappear
6. How U.S. prosecutors used Mafia-era laws to bring FIFA down
7. Why critics say the system is still vulnerable today

This is a story-mode, documentary-style episode, designed to feel like you’re watching a true-crime series - not a recap, not a debate, and not a highlight reel. It’s a deep dive into how power corrupts when no one is watching.

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Because in this world, corruption doesn’t always wear a suit.

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In this Wrap Sheet episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide, host Steve dives back into one of the most disturbing cases in true crime history - the Pizza Bomber case.

This isn’t just a robbery gone wrong. It’s a story of calculated cruelty, where Brian Wells, a pizza delivery driver, was manipulated, lied to, and strapped into a bomb that no one ever intended to disarm.

We break down:

1. Why Brian appeared calm leaving the bank - and when that calm turned to terror
2. The absurdity of a “master plan” that netted barely $8,000
3. The impossible scavenger hunt designed to fail
4. The twisted psychology behind Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, Kenneth Barnes, and William Rothstein
5. An umbrella-disguised shotgun that feels ripped straight from a Bond villain’s closet
6. And the haunting question: was Brian ever supposed to survive?

Along the way, we roast the stupidity where it deserves it, slow down where the humanity demands it, and ask how people can be cruel enough to treat another human being as disposable.

Plus, a teaser for next week’s deep dive into the FIFA corruption scandal.