Football official is expected to sentence as the first official in FIFA scandal.
Football official is expected to sentence as the first official in FIFA scandal.
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The United State investigation, first exposed in May 2015, has seen federal prosecutors in New York accuse around 40 football and sports marketing executives with supposedly receiving tens of millions of bribes and kickbacks. Like many of the charges, Hector Trujillo cut a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of wire fraud conspiracy in a US federal court in Brooklyn four months ago. A 63-year-old former Guatemalan football official is expected Wednesday to become the first person sentenced by a US judge over the sweeping corruption scandal that rocked world soccer. US prosecutors are seeking a minimum sentence of just over three years and for Trujillo to pay back $415,000 to the Guatemalan soccer federation.

In January 2016, he posted a $4 million bond, surrendering his passport and submitting to electronic monitoring. He has been living on bail in Florida. The US corruption investigation precipitated the downfall of longtime FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his former heir apparent, Michel Platini. Many of those indicted agreed to cooperate with a prosecutor in exchange for possible humanity. Three Latin American defendants who have continued to plead not guilty in connection with the largest corruption scandal in the history of soccer are due to go on trial in a US federal court in Brooklyn on November 6

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