Marketing group fined $1 million in FIFA corruption case

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge ordered a sports marketing group on Monday to pay a total of $1 million in fines in the FIFA soccer scandal. U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen fined Traffic Sports International and Traffic Sports USA at a hearing federal court in Brooklyn. The companies had been implicated in the sprawling... Read More

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FIFA

December 11, 2018

Former FIFA official sentenced in bribery scandal

NEW YORK (AP) — A former FIFA official from Guatemala who was cooperating in the U.S. investigation of corruption in international soccer’s governing body was sentenced on Thursday to time served. Ex-Guatemalan soccer chief Rafael Salguero had been under house arrest since 2016 while providing information to prosecutors in a sprawling case accusing several soccer... Read More

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FIFA, Rafael Salguero

October 15, 2018

Michel Platini files lawsuit in France in FIFA case

PARIS (AP) — Convinced he was the victim of a plot, former UEFA president Michel Platini has filed a lawsuit in France in a bid to prove that former FIFA officials conspired to get him banned from soccer. Platini’s communications team told The Associated Press on Friday that the former France great has filed the... Read More

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October 11, 2018

Former FIFA official Makudi at court for ban appeal hearing

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Former FIFA executive committee member Worawi Makudi is at the Court of Arbitration for Sport challenging his ban for forgery ahead of a Thailand soccer federation election. Makudi said outside the court on Thursday he was “very confident. I didn’t do anything wrong.” The former Thai federation president appealed against a... Read More

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September 26, 2018

Private jets, favors to son detailed in FIFA official’s case

GENEVA (AP) — FIFA spent $11.7 million in less than three years on private jets, including luxury sight-seeing trips for a top official, a newly published legal document shows. Jerome Valcke, then the FIFA secretary general, was urged in a 2013 internal memo to find “more cost efficient alternatives whenever possible,” according to the Court... Read More

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August 29, 2018

Ex-South American soccer official to be sentenced in US case

NEW YORK (AP) — A former top South American soccer official is facing sentencing in the sprawling FIFA (FEE’-fuh) bribery scandal. Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay is due in court in New York City on Wednesday. A U.S. jury convicted him late last year of racketeering and other charges stemming from a corruption scandal that... Read More

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August 23, 2018

Ex-Brazil soccer boss gets 4 years in prison in FIFA probe

NEW YORK (AP) — A former South American soccer official convicted on corruption charges in the sprawling FIFA bribery scandal was sentenced in federal court to four years in prison on Wednesday. Jose Maria Marin, a former president of Brazil’s soccer federation, also was ordered to forfeit $3.3 million and pay a $1.2 million fine... Read More

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December 27, 2017

US jury acquits Peruvian defendant in FIFA bribery case

NEW YORK (AP) — A former South American soccer official was acquitted in the FIFA bribery scandal on Tuesday and walked out of the courtroom saying he’s finished with the world’s most popular sport. The verdict clearing Manuel Burga, former president of Peru’s soccer federation, of a single racketeering conspiracy charge came days after prosecutors... Read More

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December 26, 2017

Column: Infantino must prove FIFA commitment to cleaning up

When members of soccer’s hierarchy were plucked from their Zurich bedrooms at dawn by police in May 2015, any vestiges of trust remaining in FIFA vanished. As the first FIFA trial concludes in New York and a former vice president is sent to jail, the governing body still hasn’t shown the corrupt culture that infected... Read More

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December 24, 2017

2 officials convicted at FIFA trial; 3rd awaits verdict

NEW YORK (AP) — Two former South American soccer officials were convicted Friday of corruption charges at the first U.S. trial stemming from the FIFA bribery scandal, while deliberations will continue next week for a third official. A federal jury in New York deliberated a week before reaching the partial verdict. Jose Maria Marin and... Read More

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December 16, 2017

FIFA suspends Brazilian soccer president Marco Polo del Nero

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Marco Polo del Nero was suspended as president of Brazil’s soccer confederation on Friday, two years after he was indicted in the United States on charges of racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy. FIFA said Del Nero was under an ethics investigation and has been banned for... Read More

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December 14, 2017

Prosecutor says 3 soccer officials made fortune off bribes

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in closing arguments at the first U.S. trial stemming from the FIFA corruption scandal accused three former South American soccer officials on Wednesday of making themselves rich off a vast bribery scheme while their defense lawyers called the evidence too weak to convict. The high-ranking officials “took money for themselves... Read More

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December 13, 2017

3 soccer officials’ bribery trial set for closing arguments

NEW YORK (AP) — Closing arguments are set to take place in the New York trial of three former South American soccer officials charged in the corruption scandal engulfing the sport’s governing body. Ex-presidents of national soccer federations in Paraguay, Peru and Brazil have denied accusations they participated in a vast conspiracy involving tens of... Read More

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December 8, 2017

Jonas brother testifies at FIFA bribery trial about concert

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. trial of three former South American soccer officials charged in the FIFA corruption scandal took another odd twist Thursday with surprise testimony by pop star Kevin Jonas about attending a Paul McCartney show in Argentina. Prosecutors called the former member of the Jonas Brothers to bolster earlier testimony by... Read More

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Marketing group fined $1 million in FIFA corruption case

Former FIFA official sentenced in bribery scandal

Michel Platini files lawsuit in France in FIFA case

Former FIFA official Makudi at court for ban appeal hearing

Private jets, favors to son detailed in FIFA official’s case

Ex-South American soccer official to be sentenced in US case

Ex-Brazil soccer boss gets 4 years in prison in FIFA probe

US jury acquits Peruvian defendant in FIFA bribery case

Column: Infantino must prove FIFA commitment to cleaning up

2 officials convicted at FIFA trial; 3rd awaits verdict

FIFA suspends Brazilian soccer president Marco Polo del Nero

Prosecutor says 3 soccer officials made fortune off bribes

3 soccer officials’ bribery trial set for closing arguments

Jonas brother testifies at FIFA bribery trial about concert

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