On Sept. 14 in Zurich, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch will join her counterpart from Switzerland, Michael Lauber, for a news conference about their separate investigations ofcorruption inside FIFA, soccer’s world governing body. The joint conference will explain the “status of the two criminal proceedings,” Swiss officials said in a statement on Tuesday.Though the cases are separate, the officials involved are cooperating in their investigations. Across town, FIFA President Sepp Blatter is working through the last months of his 18-yearpresidential spell after citing pressure on FIFA from the criminal cases as a reason to stand down early.
