June 05, 2023
Federal prosecutors have asked a Brooklyn federal judge not to toss the conviction of a former Fox executive in the latest FIFA corruption trial, saying there was ample evidence he schemed to defraud soccer organizations by paying bribes for media rights.
May 31, 2023
Brooklyn federal prosecutors are urging a judge to deny a former South American soccer executive's bid to reduce the nine-year sentence he received after a jury convicted him over the international FIFA bribery scandal.
May 12, 2023
A Brooklyn federal judge allowed a former sports media executive to avoid jail Friday for his 10-year course of international soccer bribery, after she was moved to tears by what she called the former exec's "breathtaking and consequential" decision to cooperate with prosecutors.
April 24, 2023
The former CEO of Fox International Channels urged a New York federal judge to erase his money laundering and wire fraud convictions in the latest FIFA corruption trial, arguing that federal prosecutors failed to show that anyone at South American soccer confederation CONMEBOL was unaware of the bribery of its executives.
March 09, 2023
A Brooklyn federal jury wary of a key witness's credibility returned a mixed verdict Thursday in the latest FIFA corruption trial, finding one former 21st Century Fox television executive guilty of bribing South American soccer officials but acquitting a lower-level executive of the same charges.
March 03, 2023
A Brooklyn federal jury is set to decide if two former 21st Century Fox executives bribed soccer officials for broadcasting rights, after defense lawyers closed the trial Friday with swipes at the credibility of a "classic narcissist" government cooperator.
March 02, 2023
Two former 21st Century Fox television executives got involved in the global FIFA corruption scheme to advance their own careers, a Brooklyn federal prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments for the criminal bribery trial Thursday.
March 01, 2023
The true extent of 21st Century Fox's cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice came under scrutiny in the final days of trial for two erstwhile Fox executives, as two former in-house lawyers at the media giant testified about reactions to the bombshell FIFA bribery indictment in 2015.
February 27, 2023
A former 21st Century Fox manager took the witness stand in Brooklyn federal court Monday to deny allegations that his longtime No. 2 bribed Latin American soccer officials for broadcasting rights, countering key testimony from earlier in the trial.
February 24, 2023
The general counsel of DirecTV took the witness stand on Friday in the trial of two former 21st Century Fox executives, telling a Brooklyn federal jury he never saw any signs of bribery in the dealings of an Argentine soccer broadcasting partner shared by DirecTV and Fox.