The former American soccer official Chuck Blazer was providing information to federal prosecutors looking into corruption in world soccer’s governing body for nearly a year and a half while still a member of FIFA’s ruling executive committee, according to a plea agreement unsealed by a federal judge Monday.
The agreement was ordered released in United States District Court in Brooklyn by Judge Raymond J. Dearie, who said that prosecutors had not met the “high burden” to keep it under seal. It was dated Nov. 25, 2013, the same day Blazer pleaded guilty in a locked federal courtroom in Brooklyn to 10 counts of racketeering, wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion.