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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2016 SPORTS US releases three FIFA guilty plea transcripts NEW YORK: A US judge released show three of them expressing regret and 2022 World Cup qualifying matches, seven days a week from 8 am to 5 pm, cials to obtain marketing rights to vari- Monday transcripts of guilty pleas from and suggesting that bribes were stan- and in 2012, 2013 and 2014, including ostensibly to care for his then 18-month- ous tournaments. three prominent defendants in the dard practice. All three, who are con- for the Copa America Centenario tourna- old son. His wife is a doctor in Atlanta, “Torneos and I profited from these sweeping FIFA corruption investigation fined to US house arrest, will be sen- ment, which will be held in June. making Webb “solely responsible” for payments directly and indirectly by who confessed to crimes and agreed to tenced for corruption in New York in “I deeply regret my participation in their child, the court heard. “He is a busy securing these rights,” he said. pay $37.5 million in compensation. June. “I abused my position to obtain this illegal conduct,” said the dual man,” Judge Raymond Dearie said. Court papers complained last month Former FIFA vice president Jeffrey bribes and kickbacks for my personal Cayman Islands-British citizen who was His freedom of movement was limit- that Webb kept up a millionaire lifestyle Webb, Argentinian-Italian marketing benefit,” Webb, who suffers from a heart educated in the United States. He con- ed to a 20-mile (32-kilometer) radius and quaffing champagne, gambling and par- executive Alejandro Burzaco and condition, told the judge in pleading fessed to conspiring to defraud his Webb was still subject to electronic tag- tying while under arrest at the US home Brazilian intermediary Jose Margulies guilty to seven counts and confessing to employers and conspiracy to commit ging.
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