Four years after the United States won the first convictions in its sprawling global soccer corruption case, which has implicated more than 40 people, a former Guatemalan judge became the first defendant to be sentenced.
Héctor Trujillo, the former president of Guatemala’s soccer association who admitted accepting and laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, received an eight-month prison sentence on Wednesday.
Judge Pamela K. Chen of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn also ordered Mr. Trujillo to pay $415,000 in restitution to the victim of his crimes, Guatemala’s soccer association.