An Argentine businessman convicted in the United States’ FIFA case carried on in testifying against three former soccer officials at trial on Thursday, a day after breaking down in tears on the witness stand.
Alejandro Burzaco, the government’s first witness in the global corruption case, appeared for a third day in federal court in Brooklyn, following the suicide of a former associate in Argentina whom he had implicated in his testimony this week. His third day of testimony also followed apparent attempts at intimidation by one of the three South American defendants sitting across the courtroom.
“There is a lot of money in football, and a lot of bad men in the business,” Mr.