October 18, 2017
A Brooklyn federal judge granted a request by prosecutors on Tuesday to partly anonymize and sequester jurors who will soon hear a corruption case against three men charged in a sweeping conspiracy to corrupt the global soccer group FIFA, rejecting the men's protests that it would give jurors the wrong idea about the seriousness of the case.
October 10, 2017
Attorneys for three South American soccer officials headed to trial next month on corruption charges in the wide-ranging FIFA probe urged a federal judge in Brooklyn on Tuesday to not take "extreme" measures to hide jurors' identities from the public and keep jurors partially sequestered.
October 04, 2017
A former South American soccer executive charged in the U.S. federal government's massive FIFA corruption case argued Tuesday that evidence of alleged obstruction of justice that prosecutors want to admit at trial has nothing to do with him and would be unfairly prejudicial.
September 15, 2017
One of three former South American soccer executives charged in the massive FIFA corruption dragnet urged a New York federal judge Friday not to grant the government’s bid for a semi-sequestered and anonymous jury, arguing that such measures have to be weighed against the potential they have to prejudice their upcoming trial.
September 14, 2017
A New York federal judge on Thursday said prosecutors accusing three former South American soccer officials of taking part in a wide-ranging FIFA corruption conspiracy will be allowed to admit evidence pertaining to racketeering by their alleged co-conspirators at trial, saying it is relevant and not prejudicial to the case.
September 06, 2017
Brooklyn federal prosecutors on Friday asked for an anonymous and semi-sequestered jury in the upcoming trial of three former South American soccer executives charged in the massive FIFA corruption dragnet, citing the intense domestic and international media coverage.
August 08, 2017
A New York federal judge on Monday granted prosecutors' bid to limit how a trio of soccer executives can use the information in four now-unsealed warrants at trial in the FIFA corruption case, rejecting the objections made by a former chief of the South American soccer confederation last week.
August 02, 2017
The federal government is trying impose unheard of limitations on the former head of the South American soccer confederation's defense at trial in the FIFA corruption case, the onetime executive told a New York federal judge Tuesday.
July 28, 2017
The former president of the Brazilian soccer federation urged a Brooklyn federal court to delay deciding whether to allow evidence of alleged co-conspirators' bribes in the FIFA corruption probe that federal prosecutors say show an overall racketeering scheme, arguing Thursday it is unclear what evidence they are talking about.
July 26, 2017
U.S. prosecutors asked a Brooklyn federal judge Wednesday to hold a hearing to have former FIFA Vice President Jeffrey Webb, who pled guilty last year to charges in the FIFA corruption case, waive a potential conflict of interest with his counsel from Clifford Chance LLP as the firm is also representing a Swiss banker who pled guilty in a related case last month.