U.S. Indicts 9 FIFA Officials and 5 Corporate Executives for Corruption and Racketeering Conspiracy

On May 27, 2015, the Attorney General of the United States announced the unsealing of a 47-count indictment in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn), charging 14 defendants with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies, among other offenses, in connection with the defendants’ participation in a 24-year scheme to enrich themselves through the corruption of international soccer.  The guilty pleas of four individual defendants and two corporate defendants were also unsealed.