MANHATTAN (CN) — A former Fox media executive is back on the hook for a sprawling scheme to bribe FIFA and other international soccer groups in exchange for broadcasting rights to tournaments including World Cup qualifiers and Copa América.
Six months after jurors found Hernan Lopez, the former CEO of Fox International Channels, guilty of wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy of wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy — along with the company Full Play Group S.A. — U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen overturned their convictions, citing fresh precedent in the U.S. Supreme Court that raised the bar for bribery prosecutions.
That was an error, a panel of Second Circuit judges ruled Wednesday, rejecting the Barack Obama appointee’s finding that foreign commercial bribery isn’t covered under a federal law defining a “scheme or artifice” to deprive someone of honest services.
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