On Wednesday, the United States Justice Department, FBI and IRS, in conjunction with Swiss legal authorities, indicted nine FIFA officials and five sports-marketing executives from the United States and South America on charges including racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy, according to Matt Apuzzo, Stephanie Clifford and William K. Rashbaum of the New York Times.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch noted that the investigation "spans at least two generations of soccer officials who, as alleged, have abused their positions of trust to acquire millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks," per Martin Rogers and Kim Hjelmgaard of USA Today.