NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge denied a request for compassionate release by the former head of South American soccer after he contracted the coronavirus while serving a nine-year prison sentence.
U.S. District Judge Pamela K. Chen in Brooklyn ruled Tuesday that Juan Ángel Napout should remain at the low-security Federal Correctional Institution, Miami. The Paraguayan was among the former FIFA officials convicted following a U.S. government investigation into corruption of soccer.
Napout tested positive for the virus on July 16 but has remained asymptomatic. He asked to be transferred to home confinement. U.S. prisons have seen widespread outbreaks of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.