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Red card. >> reporter: events like the world cup helped fifa bring in $2 billion a year. >> a sport that unites and inspires. >> reporter: the international event draws top players, top tourism, and top publicity for host cities and sponsors. now the justice department says fifa officials have used that allure to earn a cool $150 million in bribes for more than two decades. in exchange it allegedly provided lucrative media and marketing rights to the world cup and fifa. >> fifa worldwide has extraordinary power, uber power. we can make a case that this is the biggest sports bust in history tod...

Earring, wire fraud and money laundering. >> this really is the world cup of fraud. and today, we are issuing fifa a red card. >> events like the world cup help fifa bring in more than $2 billion a year. the international event draws top players, top tourism and to be top publicity for the host cities and sponsors. now the justice department says fifa officials have used that allure to earn a cool $150 million in bribes for more than two decades. in exchange, it allegedly provided lucrative media and marketing rights to the world cup, another tournament. >> fifa worldwide has extraordinary pow...

>> delights and inspires -- >> reporter: the international event draws top players, top tourism, and top publicity for host cities and sponsors. now the justice department says fifa officials have used that allure to earn a cool $150 million in bribes for more than two decades. in exchange it allegedly provided lucrative media and marketing rights to the world cup and other tournaments. >> fifa worldwide has extraordinary power. this is uber power. we can make a case that this is the biggest sports bust in history. today, this is historic this is monumental. >> reporter: who's among fifa's lea...

>> there you go. hope you like spicy. he's a brazilian cat. he's got to like spicy. [ speaking foreign language ] a little cachaca. >> yes. >> that will set you right. >> i think now you're protected from the poison. ♪ >> we're coming up to the world cup and i think a lot of people are going to be reading about crime and all of that. how do you think it's going to go, the world cup? disaster or it's going to somehow work out? >> i think it will be a success. >> you think it will be a success. >> i'm sure of it. >> salvador is one of the host cities for the 2014 world cup.

>> i'm sure of it. >> salvador is one of the host cities for the 2014 world cup. a huge stadium has recently been completed, but a lot of people are worried, concerned, if brazil is ready. i have been told thousands of prostitutes are studying tourist-appropriate languages in preparation, so probably a lot of people are going to get laid, a lot of people are going to get robbed, a lot of people are going to get laid and robbed. >> have you ever been here in carnival? >> no. >> the world cup is that carnival. >> that works out, right? that's not a slaughterfest. >> it's a breakfast. >> right. >...