The criminal investigation unit of the IRS expects to add to the list of 14 FIFA officials and corporate co-conspirators already indicted in this week’s soccer corruption scandal or whatever the fuck, the New York Times reported Friday evening. But it’s still not clear whether the U.S. will go after the biggest fish, freshly reelected FIFA emperor-for-life Sepp Blatter.

“I’m fairly confident that we will have another round of indictments,” Richard Weber, the chief of IRS criminal investigations told the NYT, but he declined to name names.

The story dances carefully around FIFA’s lingering Blatter problem, implying he might be a target of the investigation without coming out and saying it. Here’s Matt Apuzzo for the Times:

Mr. Weber would not identify the remaining targets of the federal investigation or say whether Mr. Blatter was among them. Mr. Weber said he understood that federal investigators, by publicly vowing to rid soccer of corruption, had raised expectations around the world. But he did not shy away from those expectations.

“We strongly believe there are other people and entities involved in criminal acts,” he said.

“Eppsay Atterblay,” Weber might as well have said, winking suggestively.

The IRS says the timing of the FIFA arrests wasn’t intended to stop Blatter’s seemingly inevitable reelection, and that the association’s annual meeting in Zurich was the only time they could get so many of their suspects, based in several different nations, in one convenient location.

For his part, Blatter claims to be “disgusted” at the allegations of widespread bribery and money laundering within the organization that he’s run for the past 17 years. He’s decided not to resign in the face of the continuing investigation.

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