I am not sure he is quite the criminal mastermind he is made out to be.
Is anybody really making him out to be a criminal mastermind? The evidence in the public domain so far doesn't point in that direction, it points to a grubby little crook who got away with things because grubby little crooks who were supposed to be policing the sport were bought off, either with direct bribes or with the self-aggrandising prospect of being in charge of a bigger sport if they kept sucking on the American money teat.
Is anybody really making him out to be a criminal mastermind? The evidence in the public domain so far doesn't point in that direction, it points to a grubby little crook who got away with things because grubby little crooks who were supposed to be policing the sport were bought off, either with direct bribes or with the self-aggrandising prospect of being in charge of a bigger sport if they kept sucking on the American money teat.