January 30, 2023
A lead prosecutor in the FIFA corruption probe caught COVID-19 two weeks into the criminal bribery trial of former 21st Century Fox executives, leading the Brooklyn U.S. attorney's office to temporarily sub in the head of its criminal unit.
January 25, 2023
The cross-examination of a key government cooperator in the FIFA corruption probe got off to a heated start in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday, with counsel for a former 21st Century Fox executive attempting to paint the witness as greedy and dishonest.
January 24, 2023
Lawyers for two former 21st Century Fox executives charged with bribing South American soccer officials said Tuesday that prosecutors failed to disclose key changes to a star witness' story ahead of an ongoing trial, accusations a Brooklyn federal judge called "troubling."
January 20, 2023
A top FIFA official leaked inside information to help Fox Sports secure broadcasting rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup soccer tournaments, a cooperating witness testified Friday in the criminal bribery trial in New York of two former Fox executives.
January 19, 2023
A former media executive testified Thursday that it became riskier to pay off international soccer bosses after Qatar was selected to host the 2022 World Cup, saying "it was like the FIFA executive committee writing in the clouds in the sky, 'We are open for bribes.'"
January 18, 2023
A key cooperator in the U.S. government's FIFA corruption probe took the stand in New York federal court Wednesday, testifying that he conspired with a former 21st Century Fox executive to pay at least $30 million in bribes to international soccer bosses.
January 17, 2023
A trial in the U.S. government's international soccer corruption probe opened in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday with a focus on the credibility of a key cooperator and defense lawyers claiming two former 21st Century Fox executives are the target of a revenge plot.
January 13, 2023
Five years after two international soccer bosses were convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes, three more defendants face trial for supposedly making the illicit payments — a side of the sprawling FIFA corruption case experts say might be harder to prove.
January 05, 2023
A Brooklyn federal judge has sided with prosecutors in arguments over whether they can say "bribe" and "victim" in an upcoming trial against Argentinian sports marketing company Full Play Group SA and two former Fox Sports executives accused of bribing CONMEBOL, the South American soccer governing body.
December 05, 2022
Two former Fox Sports executives caught up in the FIFA corruption scandal can subpoena Perkins Coie LLP and PwC in search of documents the men say could aid their defense, a New York federal judge has ruled.