At roughly the same time that Jack Warner was offering crime-fighting tips in Trinidad and Tobago as acting prime minister and minister of works and infrastructure, he was, according to the United States Department of Justice, engaged in wire fraud, money laundering and bribery in his more illustrious portfolio as …
Read More »DJW allegedly used TTFA funds for CFU bid; accused of selling out Caribbean
Just six months into his tenure as Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president, David John-Williams has already turned his gaze towards higher office. The W Connection football club owner will run for the post of Caribbean Football Union (CFU) president on 23 July 2016. The election will be held …
Read More »US intelligence memo suggests Kamla stage-managed Warner’s FIFA exit
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 »Nakhid vows CAS appeal against FIFA; denies Bin Hammam link
Ex-Trinidad and Tobago football captain David Nakhid is set to take FIFA’s Ad-hoc Electoral Committee to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over his expulsion from the FIFA presidential contest. Wired868 understands, according to sources who spoke on condition of anonymity, that Nakhid’s case hinges on the perceived duty …
Read More »You don’t know Jack; Wired868 explores Warner’s farewell tour
“Mahatma Gandhi said: all through history, there have been tyrants,” said Chaguanas West MP and ex-FIFA vice president Jack Warner. “But in the end, they fall.” Irony is lost on Warner, the former history teacher who became a millionaire football official but is now fighting extradition to the United States. …
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 »Stretcher for Tim Kee; and Warner’s odd bro-mance with ‘Scamps’
Stretcher for Raymond Tim Kee. Two weeks after leaving Opposition Leader Keith Rowley slightly disoriented with a “Cruyff turn” on the Pension Bill Amendment, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar blindsided the TTFA president with a “Zuñiga” to the nuts and bolts by making good on the 2006 World Cup bonus agreement …
Read More »Omertà: Sepp Blatter’s FIFA Organised Crime Family (Part I)
“Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios…” John Prine, Sam Stone, 1971 As this book is completed, we wait to see if the FBI will indict leading members of Blatter’s FIFA Family. The investigations by an FBI Organised Crime Squad, based in Federal Plaza, New York, began in …
Read More »Telegraph for Warner; ex-FIFA VP on the run again
Chaguanas West MP and ex-FIFA vice-president Jack Warner was under international media scrutiny again today, which could only mean that another report about the molestation of football was made somewhere on the planet. The UK-based Daily Telegraph fingered Warner, his sons Daryll and Daryan and an unnamed employee for allegedly …
Read More »Warner’s hollow victory… and continuing fear of flying
National Security Minister and ex-FIFA vice president Jack Warner yesterday claimed FIFA’s inability to raise new evidence against former presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam as personal vindication. “Because of the false allegations, my family and I were the subjects of much harassment and persecution, which unfortunately continue to this day,” …
Read More »Warner accused of collecting Bin Hammam bribe
Add fraud to the numerous allegations—many of them substantiated—made against Jack Warner, Minister of Works and Infrastructure and ex-FIFA Vice President, over the years. Accusations of corruption against Warner are nothing new. But the identity of Warner’s latest accuser might raise fresh questions about the Chaguanas West MP’s behavior during …
Read More »Road to corruption: Ex-CFU official on Bin Hammam’s Trinidad visit
“Isn’t there a case of right or wrong?” I asked. “Whoa!” came the response. Jason Moyo Sylvester, the suspended Caribbean Football Union (CFU) official, stiffened and leaned backwards in his seat as though he was struck. He then grinned at the interviewer. We were at a bustling, coffee shop at …
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