The U.S. Justice Department unveiled indictments Wednesday morning against 14 high-ranking officials with FIFA, world soccer's governing body, who face charges of racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering following a three-year FBI investigation.
The indictment names 14 people, some of whom were arrested Wednesday morning in Zurich by Swiss police, acting on behalf of U.S. law enforcement personnel, at the start of FIFA's annual meeting. But with the arrests and the indictments having led to more questions than answers, Times soccer writer Kevin Baxter attempts to make some sense out of the confusion:
Will this hurt the U.