Witness: Bribes Helped Fox Execs Get Soccer TV Rights

Witness: Bribes Helped Fox Execs Get Soccer TV Rights
Former 21st Century Fox executive Hernan Lopez (L) arrives to Federal court in Brooklyn, New York, on Jan. 17, 2023. John Minchillo/AP Photo
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NEW YORK—The U.S. government’s star witness in a corruption trial over the broadcasting rights to some of soccer’s biggest events testified Wednesday how he and two former Fox executives paid millions of dollars in bribes to undermine competing bids.

The trial in New York City is the latest development in a tangled corruption scandal that dates back nearly a decade and has ensnared more than three dozen executives and associates in the world’s most popular sport.