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Former 21st Century Fox executive Hernan Lopez, left,wld arrives to Federal court in Brooklyn, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Testimony lays bare soccer’s biggest corruption scandal

By Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press

Former 21st Century Fox executive Hernan Lopez leaves Brooklyn's Federal court, Wednesday Jan. 18, 2023, in New York. Lopez and fellow Fox sports executive Carlos Martinez, as well as a sports marketing company based in Argentina, are on trial in a scheme to pay bribes to secure broadcasting rights to South America's premier club soccer tournament and to the World Cup. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Witness: Bribes helped Fox execs get soccer TV rights

By Caina Calvan - Associated Press

Juan Angel Napout, center, arrives at federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. Napout, Manuel Burga, and Juan Angel Napout have pleaded not guilty to charges they took part in a 24-year scheme involving at least $150 million in bribes that secured tournament broadcasting and hosting rights in the sprawling FIFA scandal. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Defense lawyer calls witness at FIFA bribery trial ‘liar’

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press

Juan Angel Napout, center, arrives at federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. Napout, Manuel Burga, and Juan Angel Napout have pleaded not guilty to charges they took part in a 24-year scheme involving at least $150 million in bribes that secured tournament broadcasting and hosting rights in the sprawling FIFA scandal. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Witness says he paid $160M in bribes to soccer officials

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 14, 2015, file photo, CONMEBOL delegate Roger Bello, of Bolivia, left, talks with Boca Juniors goalkeeper Agustin Orion, center, and Alejandro Burzaco, president of Torneos y Competencias, during a Copa Libertadores soccer match between Boca Juniors and River Plate, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Burzaco, the former CEO of a marketing firm based in Argentina, testified Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, at the U.S. trial of three former South American soccer officials accused of taking bribes in a sprawling corruption investigation of FIFA, that Fox was among several media companies paying bribes through sham contracts for the Copa America and other events. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano, File)

Bail tightened for official in FIFA soccer bribery case

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 14, 2015, file photo, CONMEBOL delegate Roger Bello, of Bolivia, left, talks with Boca Juniors goalkeeper Agustin Orion, center, and Alejandro Burzaco, president of Torneos y Competencias, during a Copa Libertadores soccer match between Boca Juniors and River Plate, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Burzaco, the former CEO of a marketing firm based in Argentina, testified Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, at the U.S. trial of three former South American soccer officials accused of taking bribes in a sprawling corruption investigation of FIFA, that Fox was among several media companies paying bribes through sham contracts for the Copa America and other events. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano, File)

Ex-marketing executive: Fox Sports involved in soccer bribes

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press