Not that the people getting busted are exactly sympathetic, but how does this fall under US jurisdiction? Though it sounds as if Switzerland did its own investigation and arrests, but most of this appears to be at the request of the FBI and will involve extradition.
Most of the bribes were tied to Conmebol and Concacaf events, including USA television rights, and involved a lot of activity in the US. Most of the defendants own residences in the USA, likely purchased as a form of laundering funds.
One of the bribes was from Nike related to the rights fees to be the equipment supplier to the Brazilian national team. There is nothing in the indictment that says that Nike was aware of the arrangement. In fact, their identity was protected by only mentioning Brazil and the year, and disclosing that the grand jury knew who they were. In addition to the $160 million paid to the Brazilian FA, Nike paid $40 million to a sports marketing company which Nike could presumably acknowledge as some sort of agency fee. The bribe was then skimmed out of that money.
Television fees for several editions of Copa American amounted to $350 million. There was an additional $110 million in bribes paid to get to those contracts.
Interestingly, one of the allegations is about bribes to vote for the candidate running against Blatter in 2011, who was then banned from soccer for life.
There w a quirky mention that Jack Warner had used his AOL account. I don't know if that was suppose to show nexus or not.
I think the involvement of Switzerland at this point is that many of the officials would be there for the FIFA Congress, and there is a chance of getting extradition to the USA. "Gee Sepp, I have to go to my kid's softball game/piano recital/spelling bee that last week in May", was unlikely.
