A former aide to the president of the North American professional soccer federation pleaded guilty Wednesday to a single charge—money laundering conspiracy—in a worldwide soccer scandal.
Costas Takkas, 60, worked at CONCACAF, the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football. He entered the plea before Eastern District Judge Pamela Chen more than a year after being extradited to the United States from Switzerland, where he had spent 10 months in prison after he was among seven soccer officials arrested in May 2015 two days before the FIFA presidential election.
