December 01, 2022
Federal prosecutors have asked a court to reject requests by two former Fox Sports executives embroiled in the FIFA corruption scandal to subpoena PwC and Perkins Coie LLP in search of a client's documents, saying that the last-minute motions would delay their upcoming bribery trial in Brooklyn.
November 28, 2022
Two former Fox Sports executives embroiled in the FIFA corruption scandal are seeking documents from PwC and Perkins Coie LLP that they argue will bolster their defense at their upcoming trial on bribery charges in Brooklyn federal court.
September 29, 2022
A Brooklyn federal judge sentenced a former top soccer official from El Salvador to 16 months in prison Thursday for facilitating bribes between a sports marketer and the Central American country's Federacion Salvadorena de Futbol in the FIFA corruption case.
September 27, 2022
Brooklyn federal prosecutors said the former head of the Salvadoran soccer federation should serve between 24 and 30 months in prison for "remarkably bold and ruthless behavior" in a racketeering scheme, in which Salvadoran soccer officials allegedly took bribes from a sports marketing company in exchange for granting lucrative marketing contracts.
May 27, 2022
Seven years after the first indictment in the U.S. government's corruption probe of international soccer, Brooklyn federal prosecutors have convicted 16 defendants and are gearing up to bring three more to trial next year. But a third of the 34 people charged haven't been extradited, and experts say it's unclear they ever will be.
April 18, 2022
Two former Fox Sports executives facing trial in the FIFA corruption scandal can't subpoena documents from DirecTV, PricewaterhouseCoopers and an Argentinian sports media company that the defendants say will undermine the case, a Brooklyn federal judge ruled Friday.
March 25, 2022
Prosecutors in the FIFA corruption probe have opted not to pursue a racketeering charge against an Argentine sports marketing company at an upcoming criminal bribery trial, according to a letter in Brooklyn federal court Thursday.
March 18, 2022
Two former Twenty-First Century Fox executives preparing for trial in the FIFA corruption probe are seeking evidence that a top government cooperator lied about allegedly wiping his phone, according to a Friday filing in Brooklyn federal court.
February 22, 2022
Two former Fox Sports executives can't force prosecutors in the FIFA corruption probe to turn over documents tied to an Argentine sports media company's $113 million deferred prosecution agreement, a Brooklyn federal judge said in a Tuesday order slamming the request as a classic fishing expedition.
January 24, 2022
Argentine sports marketers ensnared in the federal FIFA corruption probe want to tell a jury bribery is legal in their home nation and others, but prosecutors say that would only confuse jurors, according to a pair of dueling motions filed Friday in New York.