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The indictment states: "The conspirators' corruption of the enterprise extended beyond the payment and receipt of bribes and kickbacks.
His demand for and receipt of bribes, the authorities allege, was a key part of a 24-year racketeering and bribery conspiracy, dating from 1991 to 2015, which led to "endemic corruption" of Fifa itself.
"Second, the systematic and long-continued receipt of bribes by a public official, coupled with active efforts to conceal the bribe-taking from the public and the authorities... is fraud (again in its elementary sense of deceit, and quite possibly in other senses as well), even if it is the public rather than counsel that is being kept in the dark.
Other alleged schemes relate "to the payment and receipt of bribes and kickbacks in connection with the sponsorship of CBF [the Brazilian football league] by a major US sportswear company, the selection of the host country for the 2010 World Cup and the 2011 Fifa presidential election," the indictment said.
"Other alleged schemes relate to the payment and receipt of bribes and kickbacks in connection with the sponsorship of CBF by a major U.S. sportswear company, the selection of the host country for the 2010 World Cup and the 2011 FIFA presidential election," read a statement from the department.
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A former Nassau County police officer charged with coercing sex from a woman during a traffic stop more than a year ago pleaded guilty yesterday to third-degree attempted receipt of a bribe, the authorities said.
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