Yesterday I wrote a post about the fact that it is untrue that Governor Phil Murphy’s soccer team “has had no relationship with GPS since 2016.” As a reminder GPS is Global Premiere Soccer, a company with ties to Murphy’s soccer team that was allegedly involved with visa fraud. It was once written in New England Soccer Journal:
The latest developments arise after New England Soccer Journal learned of various accounts from former GPS coaches who accused the club of irregularities with immigration paperwork and providing poor working conditions.
Excessive hours with disproportionate pay and living in overcrowded conditions were both cited as concerns, with GPS coaches often arriving from the United Kingdom.
Imagine that, an organization connected to Murphy that provided low pay and lousy living conditions. Now we know where he learned how to force the women on his soccer team live in shoddy housing and that how to get away with paying professional soccer player less than $15 an hour while campaigning on $15 an hour.
Back to what I wrote yesterday. Murphy’s soccer team lied! Period. Full stop.
Author Stephen Griffin, who also happens to be a former CEO of Legacy Global Sports, the parent company of Global Premiere Soccer and has been cooperating with the Feds in their investigation of the alleged visa fraud, got a front row seat to get a look at the alleged visa fraud committed by GPS and connected to Murphy’s soccer team.
Griffin is the author of two books, “Front Row Seat” and the recently released “Lost Locker Room.”
Lost Locker Room details the collapse of GPS. I’m reading it on Kindle now. Lost Locker Room mentions the former name of Murphy’s soccer team, Sky Blue FC, 104 times. One entry (of many) in the book clearly states one connection to GPS:
In one case, we even learned that a Sky Blue FC employee maintained a GPS email account even while employed by the Sky Blue FC. I found that odd at first but then realized that he would have one email conversation about the visa scheme using his GPS email account when he was only communicating with GPS executives. Then, when he included his fellow Sky Blue FC staff in an email string, he would use his Sky Blue FC email account. I still find that odd – it seemed he had put himself on both sides of the transaction. It would seem that there would have to be some form of compensation for doing so – likely another quid pro quo.
This was happening right under Murphy’s nose before he was elected Governor which gives us an idea of how so many scandals could have happened in his administration.
After exposing the fact that Murphy, or his soccer team, lied about ending the relationship with Global Premiere Soccer I got some hate email (which I always love). Apparently, quoting a March Boston Globe article wasn’t enough evidence for some Murphy supporters. As a reminder this is the quote from the Boston Globe:
Records show that Global Premier initially tried to bring Botezatu to the United States as a coach in 2017 by arranging for Sky Blue FC to submit a US immigration petition stating he would work for the team in New Jersey as a professional scout.
Since that quote wasn’t enough, maybe Murphy supporters should go buy a copy of “Lost Locker Room” because it is clear that on January 3, 2017 Sky Blue FC’s coach had contact with GPS and even asked that GPS sign his name on a document to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS):
December 2016 – The GPS CEO sent an email to the Sky Blue FC head coach, a former GPS employee who still, for some odd reason, maintained an active GPS email address. The GPS CEO attached a draft of a letter that was a response to a Request for Evidence issued by the USCIS. More specifically, the letter was a statement regarding the P-1S applicants’ qualifications as scouts. It was very similar to the letter referenced early that was sent by a co-owner of the Boston Breakers to USCIS.
Again, this letter asserted that the visa applicants would be working for the Sky Blue FC as assistant coaches and scouts and serving in support roles for P-1A visa-recipients; the professional players employed by Sky Blue FC. It even stated that the P-1S applicants were essential to the professional soccer players’ ability to succeed as professional soccer players in the United States.
Several days later, on January 3, 2017, the Sky Blue FC coach responded to the email about the letter responding to the USCIS Request for Evidence. He wrote:
“I'm working at a camp in Hawaii right now mate -- I don't have access to a computer. Would you be ok signing on my behalf?”
Unbelievable. Based on follow-up emails, it appeared that the GPS COO then signed on his behalf and forwarded the letter on to the USCIS.
January 3, 2017 is after 2016! Once again, proof that Murphy, or at least his soccer team, had a relationship with GPS after 2016!
The question is for how long after 2016 was Murphy’s soccer team still involved with GPS and their alleged visa fraud? The scheme lasted through most of 2019.
Actually, there are a few questions.
Considering at least two GPS officials have pleaded guilty in connection to the alleged visa fraud scheme, do I still have to say “alleged?” Guilty does mean it actually happened.
Does anyone in the New Jersey press care that Murphy’s soccer team lied to the Boston Globe, and others, when they stated that they “had no relationship with GPS since 2016?”
Is the press in New Jersey going to bother looking into how much Murphy, or his soccer team, knew about the alleged visa fraud scheme? It was going on from at least 2016 to October 2019 according to the Feds.
It doesn’t matter, the Bob & Steve Show has 60,000 listeners and 30,000 monthly visitors to the blog. If the press in New Jersey isn’t going to do their job, we will do the job for them.
Guaranteed there is more to this story. Stay tuned!
