Tag: Loretta Lynch

• Friday, December 4th 2015 - 07:49 UTC

  Uruguay's former football chief Bauza, only Conmebol member not indicted

  

  Of the ten presidents from South America's football confederation, Conmebol, during the period under investigation by the FBI, only two had not been indicted until Thursday: Uruguay's Sebastian Bauza and Ecuador's Luis Chriboga. However US Attorney General Loretta Lynch included Chriboga in the latest list of allegedly 16 indictments.

• Tuesday, October 6th 2015 - 10:17 UTC

  BP agrees to pay 20bn dollars to settle claims with Gulf of Mexico 2010 oil spill

  

  Oil giant BP has agreed to pay $20bn to settle claims with the US stemming from the company's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. An explosion on BP's deep-water drill, off the coast of Louisiana in 2010 killed 11 workers.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2015 - 09:51 UTC

  US and Switzerland anticipate further charges in FIFA's bribery investigation

  

  United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch won’t say if outgoing president Sepp Blatter is a target of an expanding probe into FIFA corruption, but anticipated she expects more charges against “individuals and entities”.

• Friday, July 3rd 2015 - 06:55 UTC

  US asks Switzerland for extradition of seven FIFA officials on bribery charges

  

  The United States asked Switzerland on Thursday to extradite seven FIFA officials arrested in an investigation into a global bribery scandal at soccer's governing body, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) announced.

• Thursday, May 28th 2015 - 05:56 UTC

  FIFA's key sponsor express “serious concern” following corruption allegations

  

  Key sponsors of FIFA have expressed “serious concern” after the US accused senior officials of football's governing body of racketeering, fraud and money laundering. Coca-Cola said the World Cup had been “tarnished” by “lengthy controversy”.

• Thursday, May 28th 2015 - 00:18 UTC

  “Red Card” for 14 FIFA and sports marketing officials

  

  The United States Department of Justice brought charges on racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering on 14 FIFA and sports marketing officials. Dubbed the “World Cup of corruption” by Richard Weber, chief of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation unit, the charges are the result of an investigation from the U.S. District Attorney’s office in Eastern New York.

• Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 07:08 UTC

  Five world leading banks fined 5.7bn dollars for manipulating foreign exchange markets

  

  Five of the world's largest banks are to pay fines totaling $5.7bn for charges including manipulating the foreign exchange market. Four of the banks - JPMorgan, Barclays, Citigroup and RBS - have agreed to plead guilty to US criminal charges, while the fifth, UBS from Switzerland will plead guilty to rigging benchmark interest rates.