Overview
- In filings on Tuesday, the Solicitor General and federal prosecutors asked the Supreme Court to allow the government to abandon efforts to preserve convictions and to send the case back for dismissal.
- Hernan Lopez and Argentine firm Full Play were convicted after a 2023 New York trial, later won an acquittal from the judge, and then saw the convictions reinstated by an appeals court in July.
- Prosecutors said ending the case is in the interests of justice without offering a detailed public rationale in the Supreme Court or district court submissions.
- Coverage notes recent Supreme Court precedent narrowing corruption prosecutions and shifts in DOJ enforcement policy as context for the reversal.
- Lopez publicly welcomed the move as vindication, Fox Corp. was not charged and denies involvement, and the long-running case stems from the DOJ’s broader 2015 FIFA corruption probe.