Michel Platini is finished in soccer. Banned by a FIFA ethics committee from soccer for taking $2 million from FIFA years after he was supposed to have done the work, the Frenchman saw hissuspension reduced from first eight years to six and then six years to four by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on […]
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Life ban recommended for Jeffrey Webb
FIFA’s chief ethics investigator Cornel Borbely has recommended a life ban from soccer for former Concacaf president Jeffrey Webb, who has pleaded guilty inFederal court to racketeering, fraud and money laundering in connection with the soccer scandal involving FIFA, Concacaf and Conmebol. Webb, currently under house arrest at his mansion outsideAtlanta, is one of 41 individuals and […]
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FIFA defendant Li wins fight with insurance companies
Victories have been few and far between for the defendants in the FIFA corruption case winding its way through Federal court in Brooklyn, but Costa Rican Eduardo Li will at least have his legalfees paid for. Judge Raymond Dearie ruled Wednesday that two insurance companies must pay his fees while he fights charges of racketeering, […]
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Blatter: 'I am not guilty' of being silent about corruption
Argentine prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo, once turned down to be the FIFA prosecutor on corruption, said former FIFA president Sepp Blatter knew about corruption going on in soccer anddid nothing about it. “I am not guilty,” the visibly angry former FIFA president later responded at the University of Basel. Blatter had been the key speaker […]
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Former Concacaf president Hawit pleads guilty
Honduran Alfredo Hawit became the second former Concacaf president to plead guilty in the FIFA scandal when he pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy and conspiracy toobstruct justice in Federal court. He agreed to pay $950,000 to the United States and faces 20 years in jail on each of the three counts. He […]
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Police raid UEFA headquarters after Infantino revelations in Panama Papers
Just what new FIFA president Gianni Infantino needed. A day after revelations that as UEFA’s lawyer a decade ago he signed off on a television deal between UEFA and an Argentinemarketing agency whose bosses, Hugo and Mariano Jinkis, were indicted by U.S. authorities last May, Swiss police raided UEFA offices as part of “ongoing criminal […]
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What They're Saying: Gianni Infantino
“I am dismayed and will not accept that my integrity is being doubted by certain areas of the media.” –New FIFA president Gianni Infantino after documents leaked in thePanama Papers revealed that as UEFA’s attorney he signed a Champions League broadcasting contract in 2006 with an agency implicated last year in the FIFA bribery scandal. No […]
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Soccer ties to Panama Papers are least of FIFA's problems
Much of the attention in the release of the Panama Papers — a vast dump of data and documents leaked from a law firm Panama-based Mossack Fonseca specializing in creating offshore accounts — hasbeen on the international leaders found to have ties to accounts — from Russian President Vladimir Putin to Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur […]
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Infantino: USA could host World Cup tomorrow
New FIFA president Gianni Infantino says he holds no debt to the United States for helping crack down on corruption in his ranks with the investigatory tools it has at its disposal, or for U.S.Soccer helping get him elected. Nonetheless, he said the United States could host the World Cup tomorrow. “The infrastructures are there […]
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Former Honduran president pleads guilty in FIFA corruption case
Former Honduran President Rafael Callejas pleaded guilty to charges that he took “hundreds of thousands” of dollars in bribes from a Florida-based marketing company so it could obtainmedia and marketing rights for Honduran qualifiers for the 2014, 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Callejas served as Honduran president in 1990-94 and was the president of the […]