Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has refused to confirm or deny a leaked United States intelligence report which suggested that the then Prime Minister helped script Jack Warner’s resignation from FIFA and was far more aware of the football executive’s alleged criminal behaviour than previously admitted. According to the memo, Persad-Bissessar …
Read More »Omertà (part fifteen): Havelange kicked out of the Olympics
The IOC did what FIFA would not December 8, 2011, IOC HQ, Vidy: I was shocked. I had not seen President Jacques Rogge for two years and this late afternoon in Lausanne, as he settled in his chair at the press conference, he looked like a cadaver and spoke like …
Read More »Omertà (part ten): How The Belly flattened Warner
…Then was caught by a ‘Useless’ journalist ‘ CONGRATULATIONS JACK, MAUREEN, all of my Trinidadian family that I love for these many years.’ Chuck was blogging after Trinidad held Sweden to a 0-0 draw in Dortmund in June 2006. The love for Warner and his wife lasted another five years. …
Read More »Omertà (part nine): The Belly Eats FIFA
Chapter 9: Blazer’s Michelin Guide to the World CHUCK STUFFED HIS FACE in the world’s most expensive restaurants. Football paid. When, at the end of 2012, the new people at Concacaf sacked him, they forbade him to pay himself any more money. The money tap was being turned off. But …
Read More »Omertà (part eight): How Blatter keeps Power at FIFA
Chapter 8: Sepp buys votes with FIFA’s money JACK STEALS. He is a career thief and it has made him a multi-millionaire. To hide his stealing, he lies. He lies to his colleagues in football, he employs a bookkeeper in his homeland to pose as an auditor and lie for …
Read More »Blazer banned: FIFA acts on CONCACAF report
Former Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner continues to scoff at the findings of a CONCACAF Integrity Report but, in the world of football, the Ethics Committee’s investigative work has brought a premature end to the administrative career of his former colleague, Chuck Blazer. FIFA Ethics Committee chairman Hans-Joachim Eckert announced today …
Read More »The CONCACAF Investigative Report
Wired868 offers readers a look at the Executive Summary of the CONCACAF Integrity Committee’s Investigative Report into the conduct of the previous CONCACAF administration and, in particular, the conduct of its former president and present Trinidad and Tobago National Security Minister Jack Warner and its former general secretary and chief …
Read More »CONCACAF: Warner “deceived us” on Centre of Excellence
Ex-Barbados chief justice Sir David Simmons accused Trinidad and Tobago’s National Security Minister and former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner of fraudulent behaviour and deceiving CONCACAF regarding the ownership of the Macoya-based Centre of Excellence at today’s CONCACAF Congress in Panama City, Panama. Simmons, according to Reuters, claimed that Warner hid …
Read More »Jennings: What I told the FBI about the FIFA crooks
THE REVELATION that the FBI is investigating FIFA should bring an end to three decades of institutional corruption, personified in recent times by President Sepp Blatter. I have been talking with Special Agents from the Organised Crime and Racketeering Section of the Department of Justice in Washington and with an FBI …
Read More »How “Massa” Jack undeveloped CONCACAF
Mel Brennan, the CONCACAF Head of Special Projects from February 2001 to September 2003, discusses the legacy of ex-FIFA vice president, Jack Warner: Austin “Jack” Warner, in an archived TWI television production: “In all modesty, let me say that that is one of the failures of staying in office too long. …
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