{"id":73680,"date":"2012-12-29T16:50:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T23:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=73680"},"modified":"2012-12-29T16:50:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T23:50:21","slug":"f1-bernie-ecclestone-admits-bribe-case-could-end-f1-reign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=73680","title":{"rendered":"F1 &#8211; Bernie Ecclestone admits bribe case could end F1 reign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bernie Ecclestone has spoken for the first time about how his reign as Formula One\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chief executive could be threatened if he is charged in a bribery case in Germany surrounding the $1.6bn sale of the motor racing series to private equity firm CVC in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The case concerns a $44m bribe Mr Ecclestone allegedly paid to a German banker, Gerhard Gribkowsky, to wave through the sale to CVC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mr Ecclestone says CVC \u00e2\u20ac\u0153will probably be forced to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/newsbysector\/banksandfinance\/9770960\/Ecclestone-admits-bribe-case-could-end-F1-reign.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has spoken for the first time about how his reign as Formula One\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chief executive could be threatened if he is charged in a bribery case in Germany surrounding the $1.6bn sale of the motor racing series to private equity firm CVC in 2006. The case concerns a $44m bribe Mr Ecclestone allegedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73682,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73680\/revisions\/73682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}