A former Chicago White Sox executive and two former team scouts were charged today with pocketing about $400,000 in signing bonuses and contract buyouts intended for young, impoverished Latin American baseball prospects.

Charged were David Wilder, who was fired in 2008 as the Sox's senior director of player personnel amid the federal probe and Jorge L. Oquendo Rivera, the Sox's Latin American scout from 2004 to 2007, also Victor Mateo, who was the club's scout in the Dominican Republic from 2006 to 2008.

The FBI has been investigating a number of major league clubs, including the New York Yankees, the Boston Red Sox and the Washington Nationals in addition to the White Sox.

So far, at least eight employees of MLB teams had been dismissed.