October 25, 2018
The former general secretary of the Cayman Islands Football Association has asked the Second Circuit to ax the $3 million restitution payment he was hit with after pleading guilty to playing a "peripheral role" in the sprawling FIFA corruption scandal, arguing that a lower court misconstrued what he had admitted to.
October 02, 2018
A former South American soccer official who's been indicted on bribery charges has shot back against prosecutors' request that he pay more than $55 million in restitution to FIFA and other organizations, telling a New York federal court he should only have to pay a fraction of that, if anything.
September 28, 2018
Federal prosecutors have told a New York federal court that two South American soccer bosses convicted of bribery-related charges as part of the wider FIFA corruption investigation should pay their victims nearly $55 million in restitution, plus a percentage of their salaries and some investigation costs.
September 24, 2018
A former soccer official has urged a New York federal judge to deny requests from FIFA and two South American soccer organizations for $50 million in restitution after he was convicted of taking bribes, saying federal law precludes restitution for investigations by private entities.
August 29, 2018
Former FIFA vice president and executive committee member Juan Angel Napout on Wednesday was sentenced to nine years in prison for agreeing to take nearly $25 million in bribes from sports marketing companies, the longest term yet to come out of U.S. authorities' FIFA crackdown.
August 27, 2018
Federal prosecutors investigating graft at the international soccer governing body FIFA and lawyers for former soccer boss Juan Angel Napout staked out different positions ahead of his Wednesday sentencing for taking bribes, with the government saying Napout deserves 20 years in prison and the defense rejecting culpability and asking for a quick release.
August 22, 2018
Former Brazilian soccer federation president Jose Maria Marin on Wednesday was sentenced to four years in prison, following his conviction at trial last year on corruption charges stemming from the U.S. government's wide-ranging FIFA corruption probe.
August 21, 2018
Jeffrey Webb, a former FIFA vice president ordered to forfeit $6.7 million for his role in international soccer's massive bribery scandal, asked a New York federal judge Monday to postpone his scheduled September sentencing for six months.
August 15, 2018
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn are pushing for at least 10 years in prison for 85-year-old former Brazilian soccer federation president Jose Maria Marin, who was convicted of bribery and corruption-related charges in a trial last year stemming from the U.S. government's wide-ranging FIFA corruption probe.
August 07, 2018
FIFA on Monday asked a New York federal judge to hold a pair of South American soccer presidents responsible for some of more than $28.1 million in legal fees the organization claimed to have racked up during the investigation and trial that ended in their racketeering convictions last year.