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.
December 07, 2017
A key IRS agent whose 2011 tax investigation led to the government's corruption probe of dozens of FIFA officials and soccer marketing executives testified at trial Thursday that the executives used offshore intermediary companies with U.S. bank accounts to funnel illicit payments to soccer federations and officials.
December 06, 2017
An assistant who worked for former CONMEBOL President Juan Angel Napout testified Wednesday that he had followed instructions from a lawyer at the powerful South American soccer confederation to help remove Napout's computer from his office on the morning after his arrest in December 2015.
December 05, 2017
The former president of the Brazilian soccer federation asked the founder of sports marketing company Traffic Group to check on when he would receive apparent bribe payments related to the sale of marketing rights for certain years of the Copa do Brasil tournament, the Traffic founder testified Tuesday in the ongoing FIFA corruption case in Brooklyn.