USA v. Webb et al

  1. September 06, 2017

    Feds Want Anonymous Jury In FIFA Corruption Trial

    Brooklyn federal prosecutors on Friday asked for an anonymous and semi-sequestered jury in the upcoming trial of three former South American soccer executives charged in the massive FIFA corruption dragnet, citing the intense domestic and international media coverage.

  2. August 08, 2017

    Gov't Wins Bid To Limit Warrants' Use In FIFA Corruption Case

    A New York federal judge on Monday granted prosecutors' bid to limit how a trio of soccer executives can use the information in four now-unsealed warrants at trial in the FIFA corruption case, rejecting the objections made by a former chief of the South American soccer confederation last week.

  3. August 02, 2017

    Ex-FIFA Exec Says Gov't Is Trying To Limit His Defense

    The federal government is trying impose unheard of limitations on the former head of the South American soccer confederation's defense at trial in the FIFA corruption case, the onetime executive told a New York federal judge Tuesday.

  4. July 28, 2017

    Ex-FIFA Exec Says Feds Too Vague On Bribery Evidence

    The former president of the Brazilian soccer federation urged a Brooklyn federal court to delay deciding whether to allow evidence of alleged co-conspirators' bribes in the FIFA corruption probe that federal prosecutors say show an overall racketeering scheme, arguing Thursday it is unclear what evidence they are talking about.

  5. July 26, 2017

    Feds Raise Concern Of Clifford Chance Conflict In FIFA Case

    U.S. prosecutors asked a Brooklyn federal judge Wednesday to hold a hearing to have former FIFA Vice President Jeffrey Webb, who pled guilty last year to charges in the FIFA corruption case, waive a potential conflict of interest with his counsel from Clifford Chance LLP as the firm is also representing a Swiss banker who pled guilty in a related case last month.

  6. July 17, 2017

    Ex-FIFA Official Loses Bid To Unseal Search Warrants

    A New York federal judge on Friday denied a bid by the former head of the South American soccer confederation for the release of search warrants and their supporting affidavits that prosecutors have kept sealed in the FIFA corruption case, finding the government has shown compelling reasons to keep them sealed until three months before trial.

  7. July 10, 2017

    Feds Want To Submit Evidence Of Conspirators At FIFA Trial

    U.S. prosecutors on Friday moved to be allowed to submit evidence of racketeering by alleged co-conspirators of three former South American soccer officials who are charged in a wide-ranging FIFA corruption probe and set to go to trial later this year.

  8. June 15, 2017

    Feds Lodge Narrowed Indictment Against 3 In FIFA Case

    Federal prosecutors filed a new superseding indictment Thursday in New York in the FIFA corruption case against the former presidents of the South American soccer confederation and the federations for Brazil and Peru as the case moves toward a November trial.

  9. May 24, 2017

    Cayman Soccer Official Pleads Guilty In FIFA Scandal

    The former general secretary of the Cayman Islands Football Association and attaché to the CONCACAF president pled guilty to money laundering conspiracy in a New York federal court Wednesday, admitting he made wire transfers of bribe money received by the group's president while avoiding knowledge of the money's source.

  10. May 04, 2017

    Feds Blast Ex-Peru Soccer Boss's Bid To Trim FIFA Charges

    New York federal prosecutors in the FIFA corruption case told the court Thursday that a former Peruvian soccer head and FIFA committee member cannot trim the charges against him, saying he is relying on arguments from other defendants that the court has already ruled against.