The $10m payments, revealed in the US indictment, were among the factors that led to the Fifa president Sepp Blatter promising to step down last week.
The death of Gurley, whom Bratton called "a total innocent" at the time, helped seal the indictment of the city's practice of allowing poorly trained officers to police impact zones.
As a consequence, even if the SFO had been aware of cheques to the Conservative party in 1993 – and assuming there was sufficient evidence of theft – prosecutors would not have been likely to add a count to the indictment.
The indictment alleges: "Soon after receiving these wire transfers, the defendant Jack Warner caused a substantial portion of the funds to be diverted for his personal use," which included laundering the money through intermediaries.
Syriza's recent electoral success was a clear indictment of the budget-strangling policies that left Greece mired in a depression for the last five years.
"The basis for charges is clear," he added, encouraging critics to read the Justice Department's indictment.
The indictment states that "a high-ranking Fifa official caused payments … totalling $10m – to be wired from a Fifa account in Switzerland to a Bank of America correspondent account in New York … controlled by Jack Warner".
According to the US indictment, the money was siphoned off into Warner's personal accounts and he paid $750,000 of a promised $1m to Blazer.
The US attorney general, Loretta Lynch, alleged "rampant, systemic and deep-rooted corruption", making it clear their investigation is in its early stages, despite six guilty pleas including Blazer's and the extraordinary bribery, fraud and money laundering charges in the indictment of 14 others.
Pu's lawyers said they expect to get the indictment with details of the charges next week.
"With the addition of a plane and an antenna my Photoshopped version of the Clinton logo transformed it into quite the indictment of Clinton policy and the costly wars we have fought since then".
