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Pamela K. Chen

Pamela K. Chen

U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of New York

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U.S. walks away from its flagship FIFA TV bribery case

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Overruled by appeals court after vacating Lopez and Full Play convictions; now must handle DOJ’s move to dismiss

U.S. prosecutors spent years proving that Hernan Lopez, a former Fox International Channels CEO, and the sports marketing firm Full Play bribed South American soccer officials to lock down lucrative TV rights. A Brooklyn jury convicted them in 2023, a judge threw those convictions out, an appeals court revived them in July 2025—and now the government is telling the Supreme Court it wants the whole case dismissed in “the interests of justice.”

Updated Dec 11, 2025