July 26, 2021
Two former Fox Sports executives ensnared in the FIFA corruption scandal told a New York federal judge Friday that prosecutors don't have the authority to bring charges, warning that the case "would expand U.S. anti-bribery policing boundlessly."
July 09, 2021
A pair of former Fox Sports executives said Thursday their indictment in the FIFA corruption scandal is too vague for the case to move forward without more details in a so-called bill of particulars, but New York federal prosecutors say the duo can adequately prepare because there's already been a trial on related charges.
May 27, 2021
Julius Baer will pay a $43 million fine and forfeit $36 million as part of a deal unveiled Thursday with U.S. federal prosecutors over the Swiss bank's alleged role in facilitating bribe payments for media rights to international soccer matches held by FIFA and the South American soccer confederation.
April 15, 2021
A former head of the Salvadoran soccer federation was ordered Thursday to be released on bail, following his arrest in the U.S. in January for corruption charges brought in connection with Brooklyn federal prosecutors' wide-ranging FIFA bribery probe.
January 29, 2021
A former head of the Salvadoran soccer federation pled not guilty to a charge of racketeering conspiracy that stems from the FIFA corruption case in Brooklyn federal court Friday, hours after he was extradited to the U.S. after being wanted for over half a decade.
November 02, 2020
A Brooklyn federal judge on Sunday rejected a bid by two former executives at a Twentieth Century Fox unit to split their trial on charges of scheming to bribe Latin American officials for the rights to a big soccer tournament from that of sports marketer Full Play Group, which is also accused of racketeering.
July 21, 2020
A New York federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request by the former president of the South American soccer confederation, Juan Angel Napout, to be released from a Miami federal prison despite testing positive for COVID-19 over the weekend.
July 07, 2020
A pair of former Fox Sports executives accused of bribing South American soccer officials have urged a New York federal judge to try them separately from other defendants in the sprawling FIFA corruption case, arguing that prosecutors had hastily and incorrectly "lumped them in" with a host of unrelated defendants.
June 29, 2020
A former FIFA vice president on Monday avoided prison for his role in international soccer's massive bribery scandal, after a New York federal judge sentenced him to time served.
May 26, 2020
A New York federal judge on Tuesday refused to throw out a criminal indictment accusing a former 21st Century Fox marketing executive of bribing South American soccer officials, shooting down his assertion that the grand jury that indicted him hadn't reached a quorum.