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| Exclusive - FIFA's Blatter, Valcke hire U.S. lawyers for corruption probe | |  By David Ingram and Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - FIFA President Sepp Blatter and its Secretary General Jerome Valcke have both hired high-powered U.S. lawyers to represent them as a corruption probe roils soccer's global governing body. Blatter recently retained Richard Cullen, the chairman of the law firm McGuireWoods and a former U.S. federal prosecutor, said a person familiar with the matter, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity. Separately, Blatter's top lieutenant, Valcke, has hired prominent New York defence attorney Barry Berke, a second source said.
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| Blatter hires counsel as Swiss FIFA probe eyes bank transactions | |  By Karolin Schaps and Mark Hosenball BERNE (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter, FIFA's embattled president, has hired a high-powered U.S. lawyer to represent him, a source said on Wednesday as a corruption probe engulfs football's global governing body with Swiss authorities identifying suspicious bank transactions. Blatter retained Richard Cullen, the chairman of the law firm McGuireWoods and a former U.S. federal prosecutor, said the person familiar with the matter who spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity. Swiss prosecutors looking into the international football scandal identified 53 suspicious bank transactions, the attorney general said on Wednesday, stressing that the investigation may take time.
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| Exclusive - FIFA's Valcke hires U.S. lawyer for corruption probe | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke has hired a prominent New York defence attorney in the face of corruption investigations that have roiled the world football body, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Defence lawyer Barry Berke has been hired to represent Valcke, who is FIFA President Sepp Blatter's top lieutenant. Berke, a partner at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, most recently represented Michael Steinberg, a portfolio manager at Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors hedge fund.
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| U.S. House defeats bid to withdraw troops from Iraq | |  The U.S. House of Representatives rejected legislation on Wednesday that would have forced President Barack Obama to pull all U.S. troops from Iraq and Syria as soon as one month from now, but nearly one-third of the chamber voted for the measure. The House voted 288-139 to defeat the concurrent resolution, which would have required Obama to remove the troops within 30 days, or by the end of 2015 if the administration determined it was not safe to do so within the 30-day timeframe. The resolution was introduced by Democratic Representatives Jim McGovern of Massachusetts and Barbara Lee of California and Republican Representative Walter Jones of North Carolina.
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| Former Brazilian football chief denies taking bribe to back Qatar bid | | | By Andrew Downie SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The former head of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said he got "absolutely nothing" in return for his vote to award Qatar the rights to host the 2022 World Cup and described suggestions he was involved in impropriety as "preposterous." "I got nothing, absolutely nothing," Ricardo Teixeira said in response to allegations published in a Brazilian newspaper on Tuesday that he had received a gold watch from a Qatari emir in return for his vote. "The Emir didn't give me a watch, he didn't give me an ice lolly, he didn't give me anything," Teixeira said in an interview posted on Brazilian web site Terra on Wednesday. "This Qatar business is totally preposterous." Teixeira was the all-powerful head of the CBF between 1989 and 2012 when he resigned citing ill health. |
| Arabs, Muslims can sue US officials over post-9/11 jail treatment | | | Wednesday's 2-1 decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals prompted an impassioned dissent that the ruling could make it harder to protect the country against terrorism. The court revived claims against Bush administration officials including Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI director Robert Mueller and Immigration and Naturalization Services Commissioner James Ziglar by former inmates at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center. "There was no legitimate governmental purpose in holding someone in the most restrictive conditions of confinement available simply because he happened to be-or, worse yet, appeared to be-Arab or Muslim," Circuit Judges Rosemary Pooler and Richard Wesley wrote in an unusual, 109-page joint decision. |
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