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Wall Street Journal: American media companies, including DirecTV and 21st Century Fox, have had business relationships with the sports-marketing firms at the center of the corruption scandal that has rocked international soccer. U.S. authorities late last month charged execs at the marketing firms, including Traffic Group and Torneos y Competencias, with paying or facilitating bribes to officials linked to FIFA, soccer’s governing body, to secure lucrative TV and sponsorship rights to games. The American companies aren’t accused of any wrongdoing in the Justice Department’s indictment in the FIFA case. A Justice Department spokeswoman didn’t respond to a request for comment.