That it was his good upstanding citizens that robbed the IRS - he can sit down now. This is a dodge, deflect, and defer.

"If anything happened, it did not happen on U.S. territory and the United states has nothing to do with it," he said. "This is yet another blatant attempt (by the United States) to extend its jurisdiction to other states."

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It seems like whatever FIFA did was only tangentially at best related to the US. If they took bribes from South Africa or Qatar, what does that have to do with us?

I remain leery of countries that claim the reach of their laws extends beyond their borders.

.... then it is absolutely under American jurisdiction.

If so will there be any penalty to the banks or their personnel for participating in the money laundering?

That would be hard to prove. We do have FIFA execs on tape talking about getting bribes (hence their arrests) but I have not heard about us having evidence the banks knew the money was illegal. However, the feds did say these arrests are "just the beginning."

I sorta doubt that the FIFA people were walking into the banks with bags of Dollars, Rubles or Rials.

Of course if the situation was reversed and they were paying the politicians, then no crime there.

... But the banks don't necessarily have to be complicit to be used in an illegal manner.

governments were cooperating closely on this,

(which was the stupidest decision FIFA has ever made, and must have had massive bribes behind it; it made the process a laughing stock).

And, as others have said, US companies were involved:

FIFA could have kept getting away with the corruption if it just kept it to media rights kickbacks and such. But they jumped the shark with the Qatar bid. The execs just got too greedy, the pigs became hogs, and gorged on that Qatar bribe money, despite the millions they were already feeding on.

From the BBC article linked above:

So, tell me more about Ukraine, Vlad?

I'm not a PR guy, but I can't imagine a single one of them said "You should align with Sepp Blatter. People love Sepp."

America is the largest soccer media market in the world. It is totally our business. And the way we got the goods on those FIFA execs is that one of them, an American in New York, wore a wire for the feds after getting popped for tax evasion (same way we got Al Capone) for not reporting all those millions in bribe money he got as income. Blazer had a $19,000/mo. apartment overlooking Central Park, with a $6,000/mo. apartment right next to it just for his cats. He couldn't explain where he was getting all the money for his Caligula-style excesses.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/28/football/who-is-chuck-blazer/index.html

Mystery solved.

Russia will field very attractive, manly president, who will score 20 goals in ten minutes. Ukraine Nazis not allowed into glorious Russia World Cup of FIFA.