Jamie Raskin’s investigation into FIFA’s dealings with Donald Trump had a problem all summer: no teeth. As ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee in the minority, the Maryland Democrat could write letters and set deadlines, but he could not compel anyone to answer.

That changed on Tuesday. Democrats took the House in the 3 November midterms, with Hakeem Jeffries in line to become speaker. The incoming majority hands the Judiciary gavel to Raskin, and with it the subpoena power he had been denied.

Infantino had already been publicly invited to appear before the committee over what Raskin, speaking to CityAM, called “bribes, kickbacks and sweetheart deals” between FIFA and the Trump orbit. The FIFA president did not go, and he did not hand over the documents the committee asked for. A committee spokeswoman in September called FIFA’s cooperation inadequate.

A $4m tax arrangement never disclosed

The pressure arrives on top of a story broken by The New York Times on 2 November. Reporting by Tariq Panja showed that FIFA agreed to cover 100% of Infantino’s US income taxes after he relocated from Switzerland to Miami ahead of the 2026 World Cup.

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“By the time Infantino’s American assignment is over, FIFA will have paid about $4 million of his taxes,” Panja wrote, citing documents and people familiar with the benefit.

The arrangement, described internally as tax equalisation, was approved at a compensation committee meeting in Bangkok in May 2024 at the suggestion of Swiss accountant Bruno Chiomento. It was never disclosed in FIFA’s required filings, despite transparency reforms that oblige the governing body to publish its president’s compensation.

FIFA told the Times that “all FIFA’s internal regulations and processes, and all applicable laws, have been followed. FIFA ensures all reporting and taxation requirements are met.”

Cordeiro, Noem and a Nicaraguan housekeeper

A day later, on 3 November, The Telegraph reported that Infantino had leaned on his US adviser Carlos Cordeiro, a former Goldman Sachs banker and sitting member of Trump’s White House task force for the 2026 World Cup, to help secure a work permit for his Nicaraguan housekeeper.

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Her humanitarian parole was revoked in June 2025 under Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security as part of Trump’s “Securing Our Borders” programme. According to the paper, she continued working at Infantino’s Miami home for more than four months after that cancellation before receiving a fresh C11 parole authorisation in January 2026.

FIFA told the Telegraph that “FIFA president Gianni Infantino strongly denies these allegations, and they are categorically untrue”, adding that the costs of any domestic staff are met by the FIFA president personally.

A Peace Prize, a Trump Tower lease, a Kushner

Raskin’s inquiry already covered a broader list of grievances. FIFA awarded Trump its newly created Peace Prize in 2025, a trophy the Maryland Democrat dismissed as a fake. The governing body took a lease on scarcely used office space at Trump Tower in New York. And in late July, FIFA unveiled a plan to sell commercial rights for the World Cup and other tournaments to an investor group led by Thrive Capital, the firm founded by Joshua Kushner, brother of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The project was announced on 28 July and abandoned on 1 August after UEFA and other confederations rejected it. Cordeiro resigned from his FIFA adviser role in August over the deal.

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Raskin had framed his pre-election ambition plainly, telling CityAM: “If and when Democrats take the House, this Committee will have the tools we need to get answers, expose corruption, protect sports fans against exorbitant and fraudulent charges and block this attempt to turn world soccer into a global financial shakedown.”

Raskin takes the Judiciary gavel in January, carrying subpoena power over the documents, witnesses and meetings FIFA has so far declined to produce.

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