“I also had the feeling it was not real, that’s how good it was!” Napout gushed.

One of his co-defendants, Jose Maria Marin, the 85-year-old former president of the Brazilian football federation, is out on bail during the trial and is living under house arrest at his $3.5 million apartment in Manhattan’s Trump Tower. The case could go to the jury by Thursday.

Marin called the payout to him and other soccer officials a well-deserved reward in an expletive-laden conversation with marketing executives recorded by the FBI in April 2014 in Miami Beach.

Secret Ledgers

“Pay close attention to what we have already done and what we are still doing,” he said, according to a transcript. “It’s about time to have it coming our way,” Marin declared, upon learning about the windfall sports-marketing officials made with the Centennial edition of the Copa America that was hosted by the U.S. in 2016. “Mind you, we wore ourselves out on the contracts that are in progress.”

Jurors have been shown thousands of pages of records that include two secret ledgers kept by sports-marketing officials documenting what prosecutors say were bribes paid out to soccer officials. An Internal Revenue Service agent who worked on the investigation since 2011 testified that payments were funneled to offshore entities and ended up in bank accounts he’s linked to the defendants.

The records show, for example, that Marin and his wife opened an account at Morgan Stanley under an entity called Firelli International Ltd., where $4.9 million was deposited from an Andorran bank between January and March 2014. The U.S. says the money originated from a Swiss account controlled by Burzaco, part of what the businessman testified were the millions of dollars in bribes he paid to officials, including Marin, for the broadcasting rights to the Centennial tournament and another in Brazil.

Prosecutors say the bribes funded a luxury shopping spree over a two-month period on two continents. There was a $20,977.15 charge in March 2014 from Hermes in Paris, and a month later, a $50,000 bill at Bulgari in Las Vegas. There were also purchases totaling more than $10,000 at Chanel in New York and thousands of dollars at luxury-goods stores like Louis Vuitton, Bottega Veneta, Brioni and Christian Dior.

Marin’s lawyers have suggested, during questioning of witnesses, that the money went not to him but to another Brazilian soccer official.

The good life came to a crashing halt on May 27, 2015, when Swiss authorities rounded up soccer bosses and businessmen at the five-star Baur au Lac hotel where FIFA officials gathered for their annual meeting. Burzaco said that, despite the chaos of the arrests, soccer officials were still discussing if there were enough of them to hold elections for the federation’s president.