Tag: Richard Blumenthal

• Tuesday, December 24th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Boeing and the grounding of 737MAX: Chronicle of a foretold sacking

  

  Boeing on Monday replaced its embattled chief executive, Dennis Muilenburg, as it attempts to pivot from a protracted crisis surrounding the grounding of its top-selling 737 MAX after two deadly crashes.

• Friday, July 17th 2015 - 06:57 UTC

  Comparing FIFA to the mafia “is almost insulting to the mafia”. US Senate grills soccer federation

  

  Comparing FIFA to the mafia is “almost insulting to the mafia”, a US senator said, turning up the heat on football's corruption-tainted world governing body to reform. Richard Blumenthal made the remark at a Senate subcommittee hearing scrutinizing FIFA, after US authorities in May indicted 14 people - including top football officials over tens of millions of dollars of alleged bribes for media rights contracts.