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FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2017, file photo, Juan Angel Napout, of Paraguay, arrives to federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The criminal convictions of former soccer officials Juan Ángel Napout and José Maria Marin have been upheld in a 3-0 decision by a U.S. federal appeals court. “Napout and Marin argue principally that their convictions rest upon impermissible extraterritorial applications of the honest services wire fraud statute,” the panel wrote in a decision announced Monday, June 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Convictions of FIFA officials upheld by US appeals court

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2017, file photo, Jose Maria Marin, of Brazil, arrives to federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Marin, the former head of Brazilian soccer, was granted compassionate release from a U.S. federal prison on Monday, March 30, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic, his sentence cut short by about eight months. Marin was sentenced to four years in prison in August 2018 for his participation in a scheme to accept bribes in exchange for the media and marketing rights to soccer tournaments. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Fle)

Prison sentence of Brazil soccer executive Marin cut short

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press