09 June 2015

The other Jack Warner again


Slate has an article by Ben Mathis-Lilley about the black Jack Warner:
In 2012, soccer figures in bombastic ex-FIFA big-shot Jack Warner's home country of Trinidad & Tobago blamed him for the loss of $750,000 in Haiti earthquake relief funds that had gone missing, announcing that the donated money had been paid into accounts that he controlled before it was lost. The BBC now reports that United States authoritie who have indicted Warner are also making that claim as part of their wider inquiry into FIFA. From the network's report:
Papers seen by the BBC contain allegations of wire fraud totaling $750,000—emergency aid money sent from FIFA and the Korean FA for victims of the earthquake. But investigators claim that it was transferred into accounts controlled by Warner at "Warner's direction" for his "personal use". And four years on the money is still unaccounted for.
Warner was arrested in Trinidad in May of 2015 and the US is seeking his extradition; the BBC says American prosecutors' investigation covers 75 different bank accounts that Warner controlled.
In other Warner news, FIFA's dubious claim that it did not participate in the "initiation, approval, and implementation" of a ten million dollar transaction between Warner and the South African government has been further undermined by the publication of a 2007 letter in which FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke confirmed that the money would be "transferred to the FIFA account in Zurich for FIFA to administer." The money, given to Warner under the auspices of a "diaspora legacy program" for Caribbean soccer development, is thought to have been a bribe related to South Africa's successful bid to host the 2010 World Cup.
Rico says we let these gus into positions where they can lay their hands on a lot of money, and then are surprised when they do... (As if we don't have enough rich white guys doing the same thing.)

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