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  1. December 26, 2017

    Former Peru Soccer Boss Acquitted In FIFA Corruption Trial

    The former president of the Peruvian soccer federation was acquitted by a Brooklyn federal jury of racketeering conspiracy Tuesday, clearing him of the sole charge he faced in the U.S. government's wide-ranging FIFA corruption case just days after two other defendants were convicted in the investigation's first trial.

  2. December 22, 2017

    Two Soccer Bosses Convicted In FIFA Bribery Trial

    A federal jury in Brooklyn on Friday found the former heads of the Paraguayan and Brazilian soccer associations guilty of racketeering conspiracy and other charges, handing the government a partial win in the trial over the men's alleged roles in schemes where sports marketing companies funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to more than two dozen soccer officials.

  3. December 21, 2017

    The Biggest Sports Cases Of 2017

    With the NFL's suspension battle with Ezekiel Elliott, a lively FIFA corruption trial and a showdown over the fate of sports gambling at the U.S. Supreme Court, this past year in sports law provided plenty of drama and intrigue off the field. Here, Law360 looks back at some of the major cases that grabbed the headlines in 2017.

  4. December 13, 2017

    Soccer Exec Gets Reduced Sentence For FIFA Scandal Role

    A New York federal judge on Tuesday credited 10 months toward the sentence of the former general secretary of the Cayman Islands Football Association for time he spent in a Swiss jail awaiting extradition for his role in the sprawling FIFA corruption scandal, leaving him with just five months of actual jail time.

  5. December 12, 2017

    Defense, Gov't Clash Over Money Trail In FIFA Case

    Attorneys for the former South American soccer officials accused of conspiring to accept bribes from sports marketing executives argued Tuesday that prosecutors had shown no proof that any of the funds they showed flowing among various offshore accounts ever actually wound up in their clients' pockets.

  6. December 07, 2017

    IRS Agent Says Offshore Cos. Ferried Soccer Bribes

    A key IRS agent whose 2011 tax investigation led to the government's corruption probe of dozens of FIFA officials and soccer marketing executives testified at trial Thursday that the executives used offshore intermediary companies with U.S. bank accounts to funnel illicit payments to soccer federations and officials.

  7. December 06, 2017

    Soccer Boss' Computer Hidden After Arrest, Worker Testifies

    An assistant who worked for former CONMEBOL President Juan Angel Napout testified Wednesday that he had followed instructions from a lawyer at the powerful South American soccer confederation to help remove Napout's computer from his office on the morning after his arrest in December 2015.

  8. December 05, 2017

    Ex-Brazil Soccer Boss Asked About Bribe Money, Jury Hears

    The former president of the Brazilian soccer federation asked the founder of sports marketing company Traffic Group to check on when he would receive apparent bribe payments related to the sale of marketing rights for certain years of the Copa do Brasil tournament, the Traffic founder testified Tuesday in the ongoing FIFA corruption case in Brooklyn.

  9. November 29, 2017

    Bribes Shown In Ledger, Juror Dismissed At FIFA Trial

    A former South American soccer executive told jurors he was instructed to pay and keep track of bribe payments to several South American soccer officials, including three defendants currently on trial, while separately, one of the jurors was dismissed for sleeping as the FIFA corruption trial continued Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court.

  10. November 27, 2017

    Ex-Colombian Soccer Prez Admits To Bribes In FIFA Trial

    The former president of the Colombian soccer federation testified Monday in the FIFA corruption trial that he agreed to accept $1 million in bribes in 2010 as part of a so-called "Group of Six" South American soccer presidents to award marketing rights to future Copa America tournaments in just one of the alleged bribery schemes he described to the jurors. 

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