U.S. Announces 16 More FIFA Officials Charged and Guilty Pleas for 8

On December 3, 2015, U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and other high-ranking U.S. law enforcement officials announced the unsealing of a 92-count superseding indictment in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging an additional 16 defendants with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies, among other offenses, connected with their participation in a 24-year scheme to make money through the corruption of international soccer.  The superseding indictment has additional charges for seven of the defendants still pending extradition following the return of the original indictment in May.  Lynch also announced the guilty pleas of eight defendants – including Jeffrey Webb, Alejandro Burzaco and José Margulies, three of the defendants indicted last May.