FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges

[bluefete]

Waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz !!! I now getting some files here about some people in the news.

I wonder if Jack going and bus' files about what went on at Flagstaff Hill?

I now understand why Obama ent bother to send another Ambassador to T&T.

It seems like the most unlikely of people passed in the rush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Waaaaaayyyyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Nah. Nah. Nah. Some people so tusty boy???????????

[brams112]

Why first???
One thing has nothing to do with the other

Jack has handed the PM and her group a platinum oppurtinity to prove their mettle.

Show that the accusations not true,

If I was Kamla I want Jack to make all the accusations he can...I buying time for him.

As an innocent person KPB should be happy to demonstrate her honesty...that will remove any doubt going into elections.

That is if the accusations are false.

The problem is the press not printing the truth,just propaganda.

[zoom rader]

Why first???
One thing has nothing to do with the other

Jack has handed the PM and her group a platinum oppurtinity to prove their mettle.

Show that the accusations not true,

If I was Kamla I want Jack to make all the accusations he can...I buying time for him.

As an innocent person KPB should be happy to demonstrate her honesty...that will remove any doubt going into elections.

That is if the accusations are false.

The problem is the press not printing the truth,just propaganda.

What press?
There is no press they all PNM

[BRZ]

wheres Batman when you need to hire him? ent he does fly into people country and extradite them himself?

[Slartibartfast]

Batman is real toots. I don't want batman anywhere near this country.... but we need him

[Redman]

Why first???
One thing has nothing to do with the other

Jack has handed the PM and her group a platinum oppurtinity to prove their mettle.

Show that the accusations not true,

If I was Kamla I want Jack to make all the accusations he can...I buying time for him.

As an innocent person KPB should be happy to demonstrate her honesty...that will remove any doubt going into elections.

That is if the accusations are false.

The problem is the press not printing the truth,just propaganda.

Horsesheeeit.

The press sells time and space.

[BRZ]

So now JW yelling that they can send papers for his expedition But that he will fight it and it will end up tied up in the courts for YEARS and YEARS.
Now that's a total fkuing COWARD, A LIAR and a man who has absolutely NO dignity, no self respect and no morals. way to go ................

How about you prove your innocence and then speak rather than just uttering garbage everyday.

[zoom rader]

^^^ he's probably been advised by Rowleys lawyers

[Chimera]

So now JW yelling that they can send papers for his expedition But that he will fight it and it will end up tied up in the courts for YEARS and YEARS.
Now that's a total fkuing COWARD, A LIAR and a man who has absolutely NO dignity, no self respect and no morals. way to go ................

How about you prove your innocence and then speak rather than just uttering garbage everyday.

....errr......so you would willingly go to a foreign country to be tried on charges? when you could live in relative comfort for the rest of your days in Trinidad?

[eliteauto]

So now JW yelling that they can send papers for his expedition But that he will fight it and it will end up tied up in the courts for YEARS and YEARS.
Now that's a total fkuing COWARD, A LIAR and a man who has absolutely NO dignity, no self respect and no morals. way to go ................

How about you prove your innocence and then speak rather than just uttering garbage everyday.

Jack issa borse

[Morpheus]

Not a peep when he was "The best performing Minister". Now they're disgusted.
Every other logical thinking citizen was disgusted since he became a member of Parliament.......


*sips tea

[Allergic2BunnyEars]

So now JW yelling that they can send papers for his expedition But that he will fight it and it will end up tied up in the courts for YEARS and YEARS.
Now that's a total fkuing COWARD, A LIAR and a man who has absolutely NO dignity, no self respect and no morals. way to go ................

How about you prove your innocence and then speak rather than just uttering garbage everyday.

Thin line between bravery and stupidity.

[bluefete]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/07/09 ... ater-this/

Trinidad judge adjourns extradition hearing for Jack Warner until later this month
Published July 09, 2015 Associated Press


PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – A Trinidad judge has adjourned an extradition hearing for former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner until later this month.

Defense lawyer Nyree Alfonso says Thursday's hearing was adjourned because U.S. authorities have yet to send charges to Trinidad. Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Ceasar set a new hearing date of July 27.

A grinning Warner emerged from the Port-of-Spain court surrounded by supporters. He declined to answer reporters' questions.

Warner is resisting extradition and has predicted a lengthy battle to extradite him to the U.S. to face charges in the FIFA corruption case.


FILE - In this June 3, 2015 file photo, former FIFA vice president Jack Warner speaks at a political rally in Marabella, Trinidad and Tobago. A Trinidad judge has adjourned an extradition hearing for Warner until later this month. Warner's defense lawyer said Thursday, July 9, 2015, the hearing was adjourned because U.S. authorities have yet to send charges to Trinidad. A new hearing date of July 27 has been set. (AP Photo/Anthony Harris, File) (The Associated Press)



He is accused of taking payments totaling $10 million sent by a high-ranking FIFA official to give South Africa the right to host the 2010 World Cup.

Warner left FIFA in 2011 and has denied wrongdoing.

[BRZ]

SO what about the allegations that he stole money from the Haiti Relief FUNDS?

[K74T]

Just allegations, no proof was ever produced.

[bluefete]

Lifting the lid on one of FIFA's big secrets: Executive pay
Associated Press By JOHN LEICESTER
July 10, 2015 7:12 AM


PARIS (AP) — As FIFA slid toward what has now become a full-blown collapse of its reputation and credibility, one of Sepp Blatter's advisers suggested to the president of football's governing body that he should lift the lid on one of his most tightly guarded secrets.

Reveal how much FIFA pays you, Mark Pieth advised. The Swiss anti-corruption expert, recruited by FIFA for his expertise in corporate governance, says he argued that disclosing Blatter's salary would demonstrate that the discredited organization is committed to change and transparency.

Blatter wouldn't have it.

Pieth says the FIFA president explained that doing so risked embarrassing and upsetting his allies on the FIFA board whose pay is also secret.

"He told me: 'Well, you know, I couldn't,'" the Basel University professor recalls. "'It wouldn't go down well with my friends.'"

One million dollars? Five million? More than that? Two years after Blatter rejected Pieth's advice, the exact extent of his salary and perks remain known only by him and a seeming tiny handful of perhaps no more than four others at FIFA headquarters.

Here is a look at why the secrecy should be lifted:

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SET AN EXAMPLE: Founded in 1904 with the simple aim of organizing football internationally, FIFA has grown into a multi-billion dollar global enterprise largely thanks to the World Cup's financial success under Blatter's reign since 1998.

Like multi-national corporations, it publishes detailed annual financial accounts and is audited. Beset by allegations of vote-buying and corruption involving members of its ruling executive committee, FIFA also in 2011 launched reforms that tightened the way it does business but which haven't gone far enough for its many critics.

Failing to publish the pay of Blatter and other executives gives the impression that FIFA must still have something to hide, when it should set an example for football to follow.

"The old idea is these guys just put their hand in the till and distribute money wildly because they have so much of it," Pieth said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.

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OTHERS DO BETTER: Some football organizations are far more open, making FIFA look secretive.

Obliged to do so by U.S. law, the U.S. Soccer Federation that governs the sport in the United States files tax returns that give astounding detail about executive compensation when compared to FIFA. The filings are easy to find on the federation website.

The most recent shows federation CEO Dan Flynn got a base salary of US$528,209, plus $102,250 in bonuses, for an average 40 hours of work per week in the 2013 tax year and even that the federation pays his health club bill of $180 per month.

The accounts for England's Football Association, also accessible via its website, aren't as transparent but do show — as required by British law — that the highest paid director got 550,000 pounds ($850,000) in salary and benefits.

Governed by Swiss law, FIFA's public accounts lack such detail. They say $39.7 million was paid to "key management personnel" in 2014. That included Blatter and the 24 other members of his executive committee, plus 12 executives at FIFA headquarters. If evenly split between all 37 people, that would be $1 million each. FIFA says the total includes gross salary and social charges but won't break down who got what or even answer questions about why it fails to do so.

"We have no further comments on individual compensation," it said by email to the AP.

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COPY CONCACAF: The governing body for football in the North and Central Americas and the Caribbean has been hit hard by the latest corruption scandal. Its former general secretary, Chuck Blazer, pleaded guilty in the United States to racketeering, income tax evasion, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies and was banned from the game for life on Thursday by FIFA's ethics committee.

To prevent the confederation from imploding, CONCACAF this week announced reforms that include exemplary policies on pay which will be more transparent than FIFA's. As U.S. Soccer does, tax returns reporting executive salaries will be published on CONCACAF's website. CONCACAF is also proposing that executives' compensation be approved annually by its congress.

These changes could pressure others, including FIFA, to follow suit.

"We think if we can do it, they can do it," CONCACAF legal adviser Sam Gandhi said in an AP phone interview. "Sports federations shouldn't be worried about the truth. ... If people are valuable, people recognize that they should be paid a valuable amount. But we shouldn't have anything to hide when it comes to this stuff."

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COST VS. WORTH: FIFA executive committee members are treated like royalty, housed in the best hotels, ferried in limousines and, on top of reportedly generous per diems when conducting FIFA business, also paid $300,000 a year, one insider confirmed to AP.

Without breaking down the expenses, FIFA's accounts show it spends a prince's ransom on meetings: $35.5 million in 2014, including travel and accommodation for its 209 member associations to a congress in Brazil.

Jim Boyce, an executive committee member from 2011-2015, bristled at the suggestion that FIFA is overly lavish.

"Bankers, for example, are getting millions of bloody bonuses and all the rest of it and their banks are going down the tube," he said in an AP interview. "There are many people in many walks of life who are paid a salary for doing a job ... That's a personal thing between a company and the employee. It's not dishonest if people pay their taxes."

But without detail on who gets what exactly, it's impossible for outsiders to judge whether FIFA and the sport it is meant to serve is getting value for money.

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OBSTACLES: When Blatter announced June 2 that he'll be standing down, he also said he would use his remaining months to drive "far-reaching, fundamental reforms." Domenico Scala, overseeing that effort, said one goal is to publish the pay of the president and executive committee members, because "FIFA recognizes that many have questioned the transparency by which FIFA operates."

But how that will be done and whose approval they need wasn't explained, and FIFA wouldn't elaborate when asked by AP. While some executives say they wouldn't mind if their salaries are made public, others from countries where pay is seen as more of a private matter and not easily discussed may resist.

And Blatter's record doesn't inspire confidence that he can pass this last big test of his presidency.

"Whenever Blatter has a choice where to side whether with his friends or with the general public, with the critics and so on," noted Pieth, "he chose to side with his friends."

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John Leicester is an international sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jleicester@ap.org or follow him at http://twitter.com/johnleicester

http://news.yahoo.com/lifting-lid-one-f ... --spt.html

[UML]

Fifa corruption: Trinidad receives extradition papers for Jack Warner

Former Fifa vice president facing extradition to US where he is wanted on string of corruption charges

Jack Warner, who was arrested on a provisional warrant, will reappear in court on 27 July in relation to his extradition matter.

Thursday 23 July 2015 02.25 BST Last modified on Thursday 23 July 2015 02.41 BST

Trinidad and Tobago’s attorney general says he has received a US request for the extradition of former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner on corruption charges.

Garvin Nicholas said that his office will evaluate the documents from the US justice department to decide whether to take the extradition matter before a magistrate.

Warner is scheduled to appear before a court on 27 July. He is resisting extradition on US charges of racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering in the Fifa corruption case. He is out on bail.

Trinidad legal experts believe Warner’s extradition could take five years to resolve.

US prosecutors allege South Africa funnelled $10m in 2008 to Warner and two other Fifa executives as payment for them supporting its successful bid to host the 2010 World Cup.

[Dizzy28]

^^^^^^are they still before the Courts? are they charged for anything?

it may be a little questionable...but they are innocent UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY

If they were guilty, WHY DIDNT THE PNM EXTRADITE THEM WHEN THEY WERE IN GOVERNMENT???


THE COURTS HAVE SPOKEN!!!

[UML]

but he is before the courts.

everyone else pleaded guilty

so he is presumed innocent.

[BRZ]

SO official Extradition orders from the US are here? lets see what happens now!

[bluefete]

What happened to his court case today?

[Allergic2BunnyEars]

Sepp Blatter under pressure over World Cup TV rights links to Jack Warner

http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... hts-profit

Sepp Blatter is under renewed pressure after it emerged he awarded World Cup television rights for a fraction of their true value to Jack Warner, on which the disgraced former Fifa executive then made an £11m profit.

The publication of a contract bearing the outgoing Fifa president’s signature draws him closer into the web of continuing investigations and further calls into question his links with Warner, who served on the executive committee of world football’s governing body for 28 years.

The latest revelation emerged after Swiss broadcaster SRF uncovered a 2005 contract in which the Warner-controlled Caribbean Football Union were sold the broadcast rights to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups for $600,000. The Trinidadian, at that time CFU’s president, sub-licensed those rights to his own Cayman Islands-registered company J & D International (JDI), according to the Press Association.

In 2007, JDI sold on the rights to Jamaica-based cable TV station SportsMax for a value that the broadcaster reported on its own website as being between $18m and $20m.

Jaimie Fuller, of campaign group NewFifaNow, estimated that Warner had bought the contracts for only 5% of their true value. “Blatter sits atop an organisation riddled with corrupt deals, not dissimilar to this latest example and this further stresses the need for reform to be taken out of the hands of Fifa and the sports administration families,” he said.

“The current farce, with former IOC secretary general François Carrard chairing a supposed reform commission comprised of confederation appointees, is just another bad joke, another pathetic attempt to pull the wool over every football lover’s eyes.”

It was not the first time Fifa had sold TV rights to Warner, one of nine current of former Fifa officials charged by the US in May and currently fighting extradition from his native Trinidad, for a knockdown price.

In 1998 he was awarded the 2002 World Cup TV rights for Trinidad and Tobago for only one dollar, a practice that had begun under Blatter’s predecessor João Havelange. Warner’s JDI also sold the 2006 World Cup rights to the Caribbean for $4.25m in 2001.

According to court documents in the Cayman Islands, Jeffrey Webb – Warner’s successor as president of the Concacaf confederation – was a director of JDI at the time of the deal. Both Webb and Warner are facing corruption charges in the US. Webb was extradited to the US in the wake of the dramatic raids on Zurich’s Baur au Lac hotel in May and is currently on bail in New York.

Chuck Blazer, the former Fifa executive and Cocacaf general secretary who has admitted to taking a share of a $10m bribe to vote for South Africa to host the 2010 World Cup and agreed to a plea bargain with prosecutors, also remains on bail.

Fifa’s deal with the CFU included an agreement for a 50% share of any profits from sub-contracting the rights but few if any payments from profit share were ever made by Warner.

In July 2011, a month after he resigned from Fifa following bribery allegations, Fifa terminated its contract with the CFU.

There is a long list of allegations linking Warner to making money from TV contracts and tickets on the back of his Fifa contacts and influence. Warner controlled an influential bloc of votes that repeatedly helped deliver Blatter re-election.

After quitting Fifa under a cloud of bribery allegations, Warner himself said in a statement that he bought World Cup TV rights for Trinidad for only one dollar in 1998 via a Mexican company and also acquired them for the 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 editions. He said then that he used the revenue from selling on the rights to develop the sport in the Caribbean.

The publication of the contract bearing Blatter’s signature will increase the pressure on the 79-year-old as he prepares to step aside in February next year. On Monday in Zurich, US attorney general Loretta Lynch will give an update on the American investigation that labelled the actions of Fifa officials and TV marketing executives a “World Cup of fraud” over many years.

Lynch will speak alongside the Swiss attorney general Michael Lauber, who is overseeing a parallel investigation into the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar respectively and has identified 103 suspicious transactions involving Swiss banks.

The SRF programme published a contract signed by Blatter showing the TV rights for the 2010 World Cup had been sold for $250,000 and the 2014 tournament for $350,000 to the Warner-controlled CFU. Fifa responded by issuing a statement that read: “On 12 September 2005, Fifa signed a contract with the Caribbean Football Union regarding TV broadcasting rights. Under the terms of this agreement Fifa was to receive a fixed licensing fee as well as a 50% share of any profits related to the subcontracting of these rights.

“The CFU made several breaches to the contract and failed to meet its financial obligations. The obligations concerning the required pre-approval for subcontracting were not met either.

“For these reasons, Fifa terminated its contract with the CFU on 25 July 2011.”

[bluefete]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fifa-susp ... 24417.html


FIFA suspends Sepp Blatter's No. 2 and puts him under investigation
Business Insider By Emmett Knowlton



The news of Valcke's suspension comes just days after US officials announced that the US Department of Justice is preparing to bring new charges against a handful of top FIFA officials.

"We do anticipate being able to bring additional charges against individuals and entities," US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a press conference in Zurich on September 14.

According to a report in the IB Times, US and Swiss investigators believe FIFA officials received more than $150 million in bribes and altered the bidding processes for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

[BRZ]

EXTRADITE !

[Monk BANzai]

Mmhmm!!!

[TriniAutoMart]

Well look at that...

[janfar]

Bah bye Jack Bah bye

[Cantmis]

Jack gonna get a Stanford ! Have to see it to believe it...

[Country_Bookie]

Before allyuh start to celebrate Jack's demise, just remember that, once upon a time:

Ish and Steve to be extradited to the US
By NALINEE SEELAL and COREY CONNELLY Sunday, October 10 2010

After weeks of speculation, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan yesterday signed an extradition order granting the United States Government the permission to extradite businessmen Steve Ferguson and Ishwar Galbaransingh to the United States to answer fraud charges.

The men, who were UNC financiers, face a total of 95 charges relating to the construction of the controversial $1.6 billion Piarco Airport Terminal building.

The decision by the AG came following recommendations for the extraditions by both the US Government and this country’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard.

http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,128876.html

[Dizzy28]

Jack gonna get a Stanford ! Have to see it to believe it...

I doubt..Stanford was a US citizen living in the USA at the time of his arrest. He actually willing gave himself up too.
Jack hasn't been extradited as yet and he is bound to fight the extradtion to the highest courts possible.