February 21, 2023
Longtime ESPN president John Skipper told a Brooklyn federal jury Tuesday he was "angry" when the network lost its long-standing World Cup broadcasting rights to 21st Century Fox, whose former executives are accused of bribing top soccer officials.
February 17, 2023
Counsel for an Argentine marketing company suggested to a Brooklyn federal jury Friday that a Colombian soccer official used a shell entity for private payments in order to conceal his wealth from potential kidnappers, not because the money was "ill-gotten," as the executive claimed.
February 16, 2023
The former president of Colombia's soccer federation told a Brooklyn federal jury Thursday that 21st Century Fox reaped the benefits from annual bribes paid to him and other South American FIFA officials.
February 14, 2023
The president of BuzzFeed Inc. testified in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday about her time as CFO of a 21st Century Fox unit that is now the subject of a soccer bribery trial, saying she "never" knew the subsidiary's top executive to break the law.
February 13, 2023
A former auditor for 21st Century Fox testified Monday about his 2014 investigation into allegations of bribery in the media giant's South American soccer business, telling a Brooklyn federal jury that he "thought the whole thing stunk" of wrongdoing.
February 10, 2023
Ex-ESPN President John Skipper will be allowed to testify in the ongoing soccer bribery trial of two former 21st Century Fox executives, a Brooklyn federal judge announced ahead of her Friday return from COVID-19 quarantine.
February 08, 2023
A former 21st Century Fox executive is seeking to block onetime ESPN President John Skipper from testifying in an ongoing soccer bribery trial, saying the sports network's loss of World Cup broadcasting rights to Fox is irrelevant to the charged conspiracy.
February 06, 2023
The criminal bribery trial of two former 21st Century Fox executives was put on hold Monday after the Brooklyn federal judge overseeing the high-profile soccer corruption case tested positive for COVID-19.
February 02, 2023
The former finance chief of an Argentine marketing company told a Brooklyn federal jury on Thursday that he lied to bankers about the nature of "private payments" to international soccer bosses, remaining steadfast as a defense lawyer questioned just how private those payments really were.
February 01, 2023
A key cooperator in the FIFA soccer corruption probe completed his marathon testimony against two former 21st Century Fox executives in federal court in Brooklyn on Wednesday, avowing before leaving the witness stand that he did not change his story based on any details about the trial's opening statements.