Hours after the star witness in the FIFA corruption trial said he paid him a bribe, Argentine Jorge Delhon was killed when he was struck by a train in an apparent suicide in Buenos Aires. Alejandro Burzaco, the former CEO of Argentine-based Torneos y Competencias, testified that his company paid Pablo Paladino and Delhon $2 […]
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What They're Saying: Bruce Udolf
“This is a gentle, meek, timid man. I never saw any indication that he was making any gesture.” — Bruce Udolf, attorney for Manuel Burga, the former president of Peru’ssoccer federation and one of three defendants in the FIFA corruption trial in Brooklyn, whom prosecutors accused of making a “slicing motion across his throat” while […]
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FIFA corruption trial: Star witness tells of bribes for Qatar 2022 votes
On the first day of testimony in the FIFA corruption trial of three South Americans — Jose Maria Marin, Manuel Burga and Juan Angel Napout— star witness Alejandro Burzaco, who has already pleaded guilty to racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies, told of millions of dollars in bribes made to SouthAmerican soccer executives. The core […]
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What They're Saying: Charles Stillman
“If you’ve ever watched kids playing soccer, there are always one or two, they’re standing there but they’re not really playing. He is like the youngster on the side picking updaisies.” — Charles Stillman, attorney for former Brazilian soccer federation president Jose Maria Marin, with the opening defense of his 85-year-old clientin the FIFA corruption […]
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FIFA corruption trial: Jury impanelled in 'really important case'
Almost two and a half years after the first indictments, the FIFA corruption trial will begin on Monday in the same Brooklyn federal court where the recent NASL v. NASL case was heard. Itfollows the impaneling of 12 jurors and six alternates from an initial pool of 200 prospective jurors. Only three men, all South […]
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Costas Takkas, associate of former Concacaf president, sentenced to 15 months
Costas Takkas, the former attaché to Jeffrey Webb, a former FIFA vice president and president of Concacaf, was sentenced was sentenced to 15 months in prisonby U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen. Takkas was among more than 40 people and entities charged in a U.S. investigation of the payment of more than $200 million of bribes […]
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FIFA Scandals: First sentence is eight months for wire fraud and conspiracy
Hector Trujillo, the 64-year-old former Guatemalan judge arrested while on a Disney cruise ship docked in Florida two years ago, became the first person sentenced in the Federal probe intosoccer corruption. Trujillo had pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy and taking almost $200,000 of bribes in exchange for the commercial rights to Guatemala’s home […]
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Sardinian villa at center of Al-Khelaifi-Valcke bribery probe
Italy’s financial police are probing a Sardinian villa owned by an international real estate company and alleged to have been offered to former FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke inconnection with the bribe supposedly offered by Nasser al-Khelaifi, the Paris St. Germain chairman, for media rights to beIN Media Group al-Khelaifi heads.
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More trouble for FIFA, Qatar and French soccer
The report that Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation against Jerome Valcke, the banned former FIFA secretary general, and Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the head of Qatar’sbeIN Media, isn’t just a stain on FIFA — the latest in a long list of scandals related to corruption in the handling of media rights deals — but it’s […]
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Jack Warner revels in T&T win over USA: 'This is the happiest day of my life'
Jack Warner, the former T&T soccer boss fighting extradition to the United States said the Soca Warriors’ 2-1 win over the USA was “sweet revenge” for their loss to USA in 1989,knocking them out of World Cup 1990 in Italy. He was also thrilled at the agony felt in the USA, where was indicted on […]