The embattled FIFA President, Sepp Blatter, is now giving a press conference to announce he will stand down after a special conference of the Association to restructure the soccer governing body and to elect a new President.
The conference will be held "as rapidly as possible" and Blatter will continue in post until then.
9:54 AM PT: This comes after news that Russia, where the 2018 World Cup is due to be held, are planning to change the law to enable cheap convict labor to be used in the construction of the facilities.
Any type of enterprise -- state, private, or public -- could employ prisoners facing compulsory correctional labor or serving time in penal colony settlements -- facilities used to isolate prisoners typically convicted of less severe crimes.
There are 39,500 prisoners serving sentences in 128 penal-colony settlements in the Russian Federation, according to 2015 statistics from the Federal Penitentiary Services (FSIN) cited by Kommersant.
This is just a fraction of Russia's prison population, which last year was estimated at 670,000 by the International Center for Prison Studies.
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9:57 AM PT: FIFA presidential elections require four months notice. Greg Dyke (Head of the (English) Football Association and former BBC Director General) on BBC News "Great News for football ... it means we can get someone in there to find out what happened to all the money that went in there." Did not think it would be over so quickly, clearly "something came out of the events last week" and pointed to the legal action. "At long last we can sort out FIFA".