Trinidad and Tobago is now free to extradite former Fifa vice-president and Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner to face racketeering charges in the United States, after a ruling by the Privy Council in London today. Warner, 79, is likely to face up to 20 years in jail if convicted of …
Read More »US DoJ: Warner ‘defrauded’ Caribbean, South Africa and T&T while serving in Cabinet
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 »Kamla skeptical of intelligence memo; but mum on alleged Warner pact
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar broke her silence this morning to respond to questions arising from a leaked United States intelligence memo. The document alleged that the former prime minister was not only aware of corrupt activity by her former minister, Jack Warner, but also benefitted from it. For her response, Persad-Bissessar …
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 »X-rated: the FBI’s sordid tale of FIFA corruption, mental disability and Jack Warner
Predictably, the United States Department of Justice’s latest X-rated exposé of FIFA—picture football administrators and television executives sneaking into deserted boardrooms to aggressively screw football fans and players—was effusive in its awe of the world governing body’s answer to John Holmes, former FIFA VP, CONCACAF president and Trinidad and Tobago …
Read More »Battle of the jokers: ex-FIFA VP Jack Warner fires back at John Oliver
Scene: (WI Sports studio) Ex-FIFA vice president, Chaguanas West MP and Chaguanas East political aspirant Jack Warner takes time out from trolling Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, staving off a United States extradition request and contesting the Trinidad and Tobago General Elections to get even with HBO’s British comedian, John Oliver: …
Read More »Ask your mudda Goose: Revisiting the fabled Jack Warner in rhyme and verse
If Jack Warner is not crooked, neither is the Lady Young Road. I so declare completely mindful of the presumption of innocence. Let it be very clear that I am not saying he is guilty of any of the crimes with which he has recently been charged. But I am …
Read More »US Embassy denies Warner extradition request
The United States Embassy denied this morning that its Department of Justice issued a formal extradition request for Chaguanas West MP and ex-FIFA VP Jack Warner, as reported in the local media. The following is the brief release by the US Embassy, which was sent just after 11 am on …
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