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Here are the key points from the US Department of Justice news conference after more charges were brought in the Fifa corruption scandal:

• 16 more officials have been charged by US officials investigating corruption at football's world governing body Fifa

• Former Concacaf president Jeffrey Webb has pleaded guilty to money laundering, wire fraud and racketeering
• Seven other defendants have also pleaded guilty 
• "Every culpable individual who remains in the shadows...you will not escape our focus" - US Attorney General

The US Department of Justice: "The new charges unsealed today bring the total number of individuals and entities charged to date to 41. 

"Of those, 12 individuals and two sports marketing companies have already been convicted as a result of the ongoing investigation. 

"The convicted defendants have agreed to pay more than $190 million in forfeiture."

Lynch adds this is far from the end of her department's investigations into Fifa.

Lynch is then asked about she hopes to bring to justice defendants Ricardo Teixeira and Marco Polo del Nero, with the US having no extradition treaty with their native Brazil.

"We have extradition treaties with number of these countries and some we do not but that does not preclude that we may ultimately obtain those defendants in a US courtroom," she said,

"Other have chosen to come in before and we do not know those individuals' travel plans."

We are now on to questions and first up Loretta Lynch is asked about suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter's view this investigation is motivated by the US missing out on the 2022 World Cup.

"I don't have any direct response to Mr Blatter," she said.

"I think he's well aware of the nature of our charges and he's probably spending a great deal of time reading through the 92 pages of our superseding indictment, which I believe speaks for itself.

"This investigation covers years of conduct by dozens and dozens of people both in the past and literally into the future."

Eight defendants, including some from a previous indictment in September, have pleaded guilty to corruption, announces US Attorney Robert Capers.

One of the men named is former Fifa vice-president Jeffrey Webb, who has "accepted responsibility for his action and extensive forfeiture" according to Capers.

Chief of Investigation Richard Weber of the IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division takes over:

"Today is another good day for soccer fans," he said.

"Unfortunately from the decades-long corruption that has been uncovered by the US investigation, good intent has been replaced by greed and misguided goals.

"This case has been nothing short of one of the most complex, worldwide financial investigations ever conducted.

"The integrity of the US financial system was breached by the defendants to promote and conceal their criminal schemes." 

US Attorney Robert Capers: "One of the men, Romer Osuna, is alleged to have taken millions of dollars in bribes as treasurer of Conmebol. Amazingly, he is now a member of Fifa's audit and compliance committee - one of Fifa's sub-committees charged with developing reform proposals."

FBI assistant director in charge Diego Rodriguez takes the stage.

"This is but one more step forward in our effort to level the playing field of soccer," he said.

"We have found evidence of newly-alleged criminal activity more recently carried out by those whose greedy impulses won out over common sense.

"No one is beyond the reach of the law - even though soccer is a game to many it is merely a business enterprise to those profiting from the athletes and the fans.

"Along with our partners we uphold our promise to root out corruption in its many forms."

US Attorney Robert Capers: "These people held a variety of leadership roles and represent countries across the western Hemisphere. Each one was entrusted with specific responsibilities to develop and promote the sport with integrity. 

"They abused their position of authority and trust to enrich themselves. They used the institutions they were supposed to serve, year after year, to satisfy they own greed."

Lynch has a stark warning for other corrupt Fifa and football officials yet to be brought to justice.

"The betrayal of trust set forth here is outrageous," she said. "The scale of corruption alleged herein is unconscionable.

"And the message from this announcement should be clear to every culpable individual who remains in the shadows, hoping to evade our investigation: You will not wait us out.  You will not escape our focus.

"Anyone who seeks to live in the past and to return soccer to its old ways is on the wrong side of progress, and does a disservice to the integrity of this beautiful sport."

Lynch continues...

"Not content to hijack the world’s most popular sport for decades of ill-gotten gains, these defendants, as alleged, sought to institutionalize their corruption to ensure that it lived on, not for the good of the game but for their own personal aggrandizement and gain," she said.

"The roles of several of the defendants in these schemes illustrate the depth as well as the persistence of the alleged corruption.

"The defendant Héctor Trujillo currently serves as a judge on the Constitutional Court of Guatemala, purportedly dispensing justice by day while allegedly soliciting bribes and selling his influence within."

Lynch addresses Concacaf president Alfredo Hawit and Conmebol president Juan Angel Napout, the two Fifa officials arrested in Switzerland earlier on Thursday.

"We are now working to extradite those defendants to the United States, just as we are working to secure the arrest and extradition of additional defendants residing in other countries," she said.

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch: "They solicited and obtained 200m US Dollars through alliances with sports marketing companies and shut out competitors through the systematic payout of bribes and kickbacks."

In her opening statement Lynch says the investigation was into "pervasive and long-running consiprances in the world of soccer."

She added the defendants in the 236-page indictment "had corrupted the business of worldwide soccer to enrich themselves".

"We pledge to work with our partners around the world to hold co-conspirators accountable."