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  1. March 03, 2023

    Ex-Fox Execs Slam 'Narcissist' Cooperator To End Bribe Trial

    A Brooklyn federal jury is set to decide if two former 21st Century Fox executives bribed soccer officials for broadcasting rights, after defense lawyers closed the trial Friday with swipes at the credibility of a "classic narcissist" government cooperator.

  2. March 02, 2023

    FIFA Bribes Earned Former Fox Execs 'Power,' Jury Told

    Two former 21st Century Fox television executives got involved in the global FIFA corruption scheme to advance their own careers, a Brooklyn federal prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments for the criminal bribery trial Thursday.

  3. March 01, 2023

    Scope Of Fox's DOJ Cooperation Probed As Bribe Trial Wraps

    The true extent of 21st Century Fox's cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice came under scrutiny in the final days of trial for two erstwhile Fox executives, as two former in-house lawyers at the media giant testified about reactions to the bombshell FIFA bribery indictment in 2015.

  4. February 27, 2023

    Ex-Fox Exec Gets Support From Longtime Boss At Bribe Trial

    A former 21st Century Fox manager took the witness stand in Brooklyn federal court Monday to deny allegations that his longtime No. 2 bribed Latin American soccer officials for broadcasting rights, countering key testimony from earlier in the trial.

  5. February 24, 2023

    DirecTV GC Tells Jury Soccer Media Co. Raised No Red Flags

    The general counsel of DirecTV took the witness stand on Friday in the trial of two former 21st Century Fox executives, telling a Brooklyn federal jury he never saw any signs of bribery in the dealings of an Argentine soccer broadcasting partner shared by DirecTV and Fox.

  6. February 21, 2023

    Ex-ESPN Prez Testifies About Losing World Cup Rights To Fox

    Longtime ESPN president John Skipper told a Brooklyn federal jury Tuesday he was "angry" when the network lost its long-standing World Cup broadcasting rights to 21st Century Fox, whose former executives are accused of bribing top soccer officials.

  7. February 17, 2023

    Soccer Deals Kept Secret Over Kidnapping Fears, Jury Told

    Counsel for an Argentine marketing company suggested to a Brooklyn federal jury Friday that a Colombian soccer official used a shell entity for private payments in order to conceal his wealth from potential kidnappers, not because the money was "ill-gotten," as the executive claimed. 

  8. February 16, 2023

    Ex-Colombian Soccer Prez Says Fox Benefited From Bribes

    The former president of Colombia's soccer federation told a Brooklyn federal jury Thursday that 21st Century Fox reaped the benefits from annual bribes paid to him and other South American FIFA officials.

  9. February 14, 2023

    BuzzFeed Prez Backs Ex-Fox Colleague In Soccer Bribe Trial

    The president of BuzzFeed Inc. testified in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday about her time as CFO of a 21st Century Fox unit that is now the subject of a soccer bribery trial, saying she "never" knew the subsidiary's top executive to break the law.

  10. February 13, 2023

    Fox Auditor Tells Jury Soccer Contracts 'Stunk' Of Deceit

    A former auditor for 21st Century Fox testified Monday about his 2014 investigation into allegations of bribery in the media giant's South American soccer business, telling a Brooklyn federal jury that he "thought the whole thing stunk" of wrongdoing.

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