June 25, 2018
A federal judge in Brooklyn denied a bid by two South American soccer presidents to have their convictions reversed or be granted a new trial after the two were convicted in December of racketeering conspiracy and other charges as part of the U.S. government's wide-ranging FIFA corruption probe.
February 22, 2018
Brooklyn federal prosecutors on Wednesday pushed back against post-trial acquittal attempts by two South American soccer presidents convicted in December of racketeering conspiracy and other charges brought as part of the wide-ranging FIFA corruption case, deeming their arguments legally baseless.
February 01, 2018
A New York federal court on Wednesday ordered Jeffrey Webb, a former FIFA vice president who headed the soccer association's governing body in North and Central America and the Caribbean, to forfeit $6.7 million for his role in the international sport's massive bribery scandal.
January 23, 2018
Two South American soccer presidents convicted last month of racketeering conspiracy asked a federal court in Brooklyn on Monday to reverse their convictions or grant them a new trial, arguing the prosecutors failed to prove their bribery allegations in the trial, which was the first stemming from a much wider investigation of FIFA corruption.
January 11, 2018
The former president of the Peruvian soccer federation who was acquitted by a New York federal jury on a racketeering count in the U.S. government's wide-ranging FIFA corruption probe last month could still face the remaining charges, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
December 26, 2017
The former president of the Peruvian soccer federation was acquitted by a Brooklyn federal jury of racketeering conspiracy Tuesday, clearing him of the sole charge he faced in the U.S. government's wide-ranging FIFA corruption case just days after two other defendants were convicted in the investigation's first trial.
December 22, 2017
A federal jury in Brooklyn on Friday found the former heads of the Paraguayan and Brazilian soccer associations guilty of racketeering conspiracy and other charges, handing the government a partial win in the trial over the men's alleged roles in schemes where sports marketing companies funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to more than two dozen soccer officials.
December 21, 2017
With the NFL's suspension battle with Ezekiel Elliott, a lively FIFA corruption trial and a showdown over the fate of sports gambling at the U.S. Supreme Court, this past year in sports law provided plenty of drama and intrigue off the field. Here, Law360 looks back at some of the major cases that grabbed the headlines in 2017.
December 13, 2017
A New York federal judge on Tuesday credited 10 months toward the sentence of the former general secretary of the Cayman Islands Football Association for time he spent in a Swiss jail awaiting extradition for his role in the sprawling FIFA corruption scandal, leaving him with just five months of actual jail time.
December 12, 2017
Attorneys for the former South American soccer officials accused of conspiring to accept bribes from sports marketing executives argued Tuesday that prosecutors had shown no proof that any of the funds they showed flowing among various offshore accounts ever actually wound up in their clients' pockets.