The list gets longer, but I'm looking for the first person to admit he was bribed for a vote on where to host a World Cup. From the article referenced above: Some Fifa officials have taken hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal payments over the last 25 years, prosecutors said.
Got a bit of catching up to do... Aaron Davidson pleads guilty: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/sports/soccer/aaron-davidson-fifa-bribes-conspiracy.html?_r=0 Rafael Esquivel pleads guilty: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37946228
Luis Chiriboga sentenced to 10 years (in Ecuador). http://www.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-fifa-ecuador-idUSKBN13E041
Yeah, but will likely get to serve it at home: "Chiriboga, who has denied the charges, would be likely to serve his sentence at home given his advanced age." Of interest is the requirement that twice what was taken be repaid. Probably make his stay at home a little less opulent, but can't believe it is going to be all that tough.
Is this a new one? Richard Lai, head of the Guam Football Association (wow), has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39747787 Up until yesterday he was on the FIFA Audit and Compliance Committee. No, I'm not kidding you, he really was. FIFA have now "provisionally banned" him for 90 days.
Some dates for your diary. This page https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/victim-witness-pending-cases links to this pdf https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/file/799016/download Some of the next scheduled court appearances are: ALEJANDRO BURZACO, former CEO of Torneos y Competencias sports marketing company Sentencing on May 25, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. JOSÉ MARGULIES, ex Secretary-General of Traffic Sports Brazil Sentencing on May 26, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. RAFAEL CALLEJAS, ex president of Honduras FA, and previously President of Honduras! Sentencing on June 16, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. JEFFREY WEBB, former vice president of FIFA / president of CONCACAF Sentencing on July 11, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. More sentences and trials due to start later in the year.
The DoJ announcement of the Richard K. Lai guilty plea has some interesting stuff in it. Apart from being bribed by "an official of the AFC who was then running for the FIFA presidency" (now, who could that be??), https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/p...ittee-member-pleads-guilty-corruption-charges
Oh look! It's all coming out right now. Wave goodbye to a member of the FIFA Council: Fifa: Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah resigns following denial of any wrongdoing http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39757187
This appears to be the Richard K. Lai indictment: http://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3680232/Lai-Information.pdf
Nice job! Well, we have now branched out beyond CONCACAF and Conmebol! So, yes, this is a new one and a path to a lot more. I wonder how the Swiss are doing?...... I did do a Google search on Richard Lai to see if he was named anywhere else ---but all I got (out of 15 pages of results) was the recent information with one article thrown in there from 2016 where he recommended the AFC get behind Al-Sabah over Ali. http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article/14797705/afc-urges-unanimous-support-salman-fifa-chief-bid BTW --- has FIFA found anyone guilty of anything outside of what the Swiss and US are doing?
Co-conspirator #3 in the Richard K. Lai case identified: http://www.insidethegames.biz/artic...after-alleged-link-to-fifa-corruption-scandal
Costas Takkas changes plea to guilty. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-fifa-plea-idUSKBN18K2HW
Banker pleads guilty to money laundering: www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/sports/soccer/fifa-jorge-luis-arzuaga-pleads-guilty.html I don't think I'd heard of him before now.
The Swiss are working on "about 25" FIFA corruption cases. To date, 178 reports of suspected money-laundering transactions have been received in connection with the football investigations (I think the last I heard there were 50-odd transactions.) www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2017/06/16/swiss-prosecutors-confirm-25-investigations-linked-to-fifa/102910592/
Chuck Blazer has passed away: https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...rmer-fifa-official-whistleblower-dies-aged-72
Oct 12, 2017 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’s beIN 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 another problem for embattled Qatar, which is scheduled to host of the 2022 World Cup. On top of that it is a potential black-eye for French soccer as Al-Khelaifi is the president of big-spending Paris St. Germain. https://www.socceramerica.com/publi...trouble-for-fifa-qatar-and-french-soccer.html
Various other court dates have been postponed, but it looks like there is one today that might actually stick. The court website (https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/victim-witness-pending-cases) has a Victim Notification of Upcoming Sentencing Proceeding stating that "defendants Hector Trujillo and Costas Takkas are scheduled to be sentenced on October 25 at 2:30 p.m. and October 31 at 10 a.m. respectively". Trujillo was secretary general of the Guatemalan FA, and a judge in the Guatemalan Constitutional Court, but is best remembered as the turkey who was on board a cruise ship bound for Florida when the charges broke.
Trujillo gets 8 months' prison: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/p...ed-8-months-imprisonment-pocketing-bribes-and
So 8 months and $590K or so of restitution and must have had a plea deal as he pleaded guilty..... The wheels of justice are turning on the ones who were first caught in this web -- when will the next level come to light I wonder. On a less serious note -- who actually ever thought that FENAFUTG was a good acronym to use? Certainly a shorter name could have been thought of!