August 27, 2026
The father and son owners of Argentine sports marketing agency Full Play Group SA have agreed to pay $50 million as part of a deferred prosecution deal that resolves criminal charges brought by Brooklyn federal prosecutors for paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes to Latin American soccer officials.
August 25, 2026
Brooklyn federal prosecutors said they intend to enter into deferred prosecution agreements with the owners of Argentine sports marketing agency Full Play Group SA, a company that was convicted at trial of bribing Latin American soccer officials in exchange for lucrative media rights to tournaments, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.
May 27, 2026
A New York federal judge signed off Wednesday on the dismissal of charges in the massive FIFA-related corruption dragnet against a former 21st Century Fox executive and an Argentine sports marketing company, months after prosecutors said they were dropping the case.
December 10, 2025
Brooklyn federal prosecutors are dropping criminal cases against a former 21st Century Fox executive and an Argentine sports marketing company in the long-running FIFA corruption probe, just months after successfully appealing the dismissal of their honest-services fraud conspiracy convictions.
December 02, 2024
The ailing former president of the Brazilian soccer federation urged a New York federal judge to rule on his petition to have his FIFA bribery conviction overturned, telling the court Monday that he could die before a scheduled January hearing on the issue.
September 25, 2023
Brooklyn federal prosecutors plan to appeal a judge's order tossing the convictions of a former 21st Century Fox television executive and an Argentine sports marketing company in the FIFA corruption scandal, according to notices filed with the Second Circuit.
September 08, 2023
This week's Off The Bench features a former Fox executive getting a reprieve after a bribery conviction, an investment group accused of scamming a former college athlete on an NIL contract, and a boxer taken to court for posting explicit photos of his opponent's fiancée online. If you were sidelined this week, Law360 is here to catch you up.
September 02, 2023
A Brooklyn federal judge on Friday vacated the convictions of a former 21st Century Fox television executive and an Argentine sports marketing company in the FIFA corruption probe, saying recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent places foreign commercial bribery outside the scope of federal fraud prosecutions.
June 30, 2023
The former head of the South American international soccer federation, convicted and imprisoned in the wide-ranging FIFA corruption investigation, will be granted early release on July 5 to receive badly needed treatment for his failing eyesight, over the opposition of federal prosecutors, a Brooklyn federal judge has ruled.
June 23, 2023
A New York federal judge said Friday she's very likely to order an early release from prison for one of the top former international soccer officials at the heart of the FIFA corruption case, in light of an "inexplicable and inexcusable" yearslong delay of medical treatment that has left him slowly going blind.