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Getty Images More than six years after Hernan Lopez was indicted by federal prosecutors for allegedly participating in a scheme to bribe FIFA soccer officials, a court has dismissed the case.
Lopez, former head of Fox International Channels, was convicted in the case in 2023 along with sports marketing firm Full Play Group. In September of that year, Judge Pamela Chen of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted Lopez’s motion for acquittal and also overturned the conviction of Full Play. Last summer, a federal appeals court overturned Chen’s decision and reinstated the convictions — before the Justice Department in December 2025 filed a motion to dismiss the case “in the interests of justice.”
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