November 13, 2017
Three former South American soccer officials "abused the system" of international soccer to "line their own pockets with money that should have been spent to benefit the game," a prosecutor told jurors in New York federal court Monday as the first trial in the U.S. government's FIFA corruption probe kicked off in earnest.
November 07, 2017
U.S. prosecutors rocked the world of international soccer in May 2015 when they unveiled a wide-ranging probe targeting several officials within FIFA and other North and South American soccer organizations. Now three defendants, all former South American officials who say they are not guilty in the probe, are going on trial in Brooklyn federal court in what is sure to provide a clearer picture of the inner workings of the sports organizations.
November 06, 2017
Two years after U.S. authorities unveiled a wide-ranging FIFA corruption probe, the first trial is set to kick off Monday in Brooklyn federal court against three former South American officials at the highest levels of soccer administration. Here, Law360 takes a closer look at the three officials facing trial and the allegations against them.
November 03, 2017
Three former South American soccer officials are set to go on trial Monday in Brooklyn in the U.S. government's sprawling FIFA corruption probe, a trial that the sports world should watch closely for hints about how far the U.S. is willing to go to root out corruption in sports leagues.
October 31, 2017
A New York federal judge on Tuesday sentenced the former general secretary of the Cayman Islands Football Association to 15 months in prison and ordered him to pay $3 million in restitution after he admitted to laundering millions of dollar in bribes as part of the sprawling FIFA corruption scandal.
October 27, 2017
A former judge and onetime general secretary of the Guatemalan soccer federation who was the first to be sentenced in the government's sprawling FIFA corruption case will be sent back to his native country following an eight-month prison sentence, a New York federal judge has ordered.
October 25, 2017
A New York federal judge on Wednesday handed down the first sentence in the government's sprawling FIFA corruption case, sentencing a former judge and onetime general secretary of the Guatemalan soccer federation to eight months in prison over kickbacks he took related to media rights for World Cup qualifying matches.
October 25, 2017
Attorneys for the former general secretary of the Cayman Islands Football Association have told a New York federal court that their client, a "sad, semi-retired" Peter Pan of a man, should be given time served for his role in the FIFA corruption scandal.
October 24, 2017
Conduct in the aftermath of the May 2015 arrests in the FIFA probe is playing a central role in a trial in New York federal court of three defendants set to start next month, with the former president of the South American soccer confederation on Tuesday waiving potential conflicts of interest with his Greenberg Traurig LLP attorneys and others who represented him between the first wave of arrests and his own arrest months later.
October 23, 2017
Federal prosecutors said Monday that a former judge and onetime general secretary of the Guatemalan soccer federation should spend time in prison and repay $415,000 after admitting to taking kickbacks related to television rights for FIFA World Cup qualifying matches, hitting back at contentions that time already served was sufficient punishment.