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Football / Re: Big up to Chuck Blazer.
« on: April 23, 2013, 04:54:10 AM »
Both Chuck and Daryan would have been shown pictures of a Federal Prison in the US...so they start talking
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Football / What I told the FBI about the FIFA crooks
« on: April 20, 2013, 04:00:48 PM »
I am unsure if this was previously posted, however this is a good read.
transparencyinsportblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/what-i-told-the-fbi-about-the-fifa-crooks/
What I told the FBI about the FIFA crooks
March 27, 2013 by Andrew Jennings in Uncategorized
Federal Bureau of InvestigationTHE 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 Organised Crime squad from New York since they contacted me seeking evidence nearly three years ago.
United States Department of Justice Law enforcement sources in New York and Washington confirmed today that they are investigating a major case involving allegations of corruption at FIFA. The probe is into allegations of fraud and bribery. It began in the North, Central American and Caribbean regional football confederation but the money trail leads back to FIFAs HQ in Zurich, Switzerland. Unofficial sources have confirmed that Daryan Warner, eldest son of disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner of Trinidad, has become a co-operating witness with the FBI probe. Warner jnr has been resident in Florida for the last two months and clearly is not free to leave America. It has yet to be divulged what evidence the FBI have on him but it is likely to be substantial and enough to make him break family confidences in return for serving less jail time.
Daryan Warner was always the back office money-man organising the laundering and concealment of bribes and profits from every kind of illicit football activity by his father siphoning off grants, dealing in World Cup tickets and pocketing substantial bribes from countries hoping to host the World Cup. Warner frequently worked in concert with fellow FIFA executive committee member Chuck Blazer from New York.
The FIFA career of Jack Warner began to unravel in May 2011 when he was caught with $1 million in bribes, in envelopes each containing $40,000 in cash, for distributing to Caribbean football associations. The aim was to persuade them to vote for Qatars Mohamed Bin Hammam who was contesting the FIFA presidency against incumbent Sepp Blatter. Blazer ratted on Warner to FIFA but was himself soon engulfed in documented corruption allegations
Where will the FBI investigation go next? For a start, they are not alone. For 18 months there have been parallel investigations by Americas tax authorities, the Internal Revenue Service. The secret probes range from Port of Spain to Trump Tower to Cayman, Paradise Island to Miami, Zurich to Zug and much further to the Gulf. They have co-operated with police in London and Switzerland.
The industrial-scale thieving of Warner and Blazer is woven into the fabric of FIFA. Repeatedly, the gruesome duo were encouraged to plunder grants and World Cup tickets. In return they delivered votes to keep Blatter in power. Football lovers must dream that the G-Men will find reasons to extend their investigations into Issa Hayatous African empire and the rest of FIFA.
As the FBI spreads its net, FIFA officials in Zurich should be seeking advice from their personal lawyers about what to say if the Feds come knocking. If they have handled corrupt payments authorised by Blatter or General Secretary Jerome Valcke, they may find it wise to followDaryan Warners example and become collaborating witnesses rather than risk extradition and jail.
Honest FIFA staff could volunteer more names. It would be unfair if only Warner and Blazer were held to account for the looting of FIFA. At any time in recent years up to half the FIFA ExCo were involved in dubious activities. The remainder, well-rewarded by Blatter with big fees, expenses and fistfuls of World Cup tickets, looked the other way, unwilling to hold their colleagues to account.
The FBI is also showing interest in the dubious decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. The Agents have acquired some very specific information but that topic must be left for the moment. Another group of investigators, working alongside the FBI, is looking at one other big-ticket FIFA decision.
Following the disclosures in 2010 by journalists at Sunday Times Insight and BBC Panorama of corruption at the highest level of FIFA Blatter should have been evicted from power and his personal financial dealings probed. Instead he was allowed to get away with announcing independent investigations, controlled by him.
These may now be irrelevant. Former US prosecutor Michael Garcia, selected by Blatter, promises to tell us soon what we already know about the $100 million kickbacks from ISL to ExCo members and Blatters involvement. The governance reforms suggested by Swiss professor Mark Pieth, also appointed by Blatter and now mostly ignored, are fizzling out.
The FBI investigations, combined with endless corruption scandals in Brazil, threatens the success of next years World Cup. In November 2010 I revealed in a BBC Panorama programme that Ricardo Teixeira, boss of Brazilian football, a member of the FIFA ExCo and former son-in-law of Joao Havelange, had trousered at least $10 million in contract kickbacks at FIFA. Eventually, a year ago, he was forced out of FIFA and Brazilian football.
It gets worse. Teixeiras successor at the Brazilian federation, Jos Maria Marin, is implicated in the murder by the military dictatorship in 1975 of a former BBC journalist. In recent days Brazilian media has obtained tapes of Marin discussing dirty deals in football. The new chair of the Congressional Sports and Tourism Committee, former footballer Romario, has called for Marin to be jailed. Brazilians are becoming restless at the FIFA ripoffs, expected to pay the vast bill for staging the World Cup while watching a record $5 billion profit disappear back to Zurich.
Sao Paulo cops, investigating the theft of confidential government information, raided the home of Marco Polo Del Nero, Teixeiras successor at FIFAs ExCo, in November. Del Nero, 70, claimed he was checking his 28- year-old model girlfriend Carolina Galan was not being unfaithful.
SINCE CHRISTMAS the bloggers of Trinidad have been shouting to the world that Daryan Warner, son of Jack, had been arrested at Miami airport carrying a bag of cash. Depending who you read, it started at $100,000 and escalated as high as $750,000. Some said that Jacks other son, Daryl Warner was also detained. In early March the cautious mainstream Trinidad media, despite threats from Jack Warner, began publishing stories about the son of a Cabinet member under arrest in Miami, accused of money laundering.
Now they are vindicated. One by-product of the scandal may be to terminate the increasingly absurd administration of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Despite Warner hurriedly quitting FIFA ahead of corruption investigations she appointed him to take charge of the police (yes, really) and the army (Yes!) and has denied for weeks knowing about the arrest of Daryan.
Because Warner spent millions of dollars buying success at the polls for her UNC party Kamla has given him a free hand to persecute opponents and appoint incompetent loyalists to well-paid government jobs. The latest disclosures in corrupt Trinidad politics is that Warner has secretly created his own tax-payer funded squad of Ton Ton Macoutes.
If the Feds decide to extradite Warner they face a tough task. If he surrounds himself with cops and soldiers the squad that took out Bin Laden may be needed.
THE NEXT VICTIM of the FBI investigation may be the Financial Times newspaper. It runs business conferences and has just announced a Business of Football Summit in Rio in June. Top of the bill will be FIFA president Blatter.
It will be embarrassing if Blatter turns up and equally bad if he is detained elsewhere. And its an altogether strange affair. In the shadows, available to FT clients, will be lurking a dark arts operative who boasts of hacking bank accounts and phones.
Organising the event for the FT at the Copacabana Palace hotel is Zurich-based company International Football Arena who stage footie conferences where uncritical reporters, club owners and potential sponsors pay to mingle with Blatter. His PR-man Peter Hargitay does the introductions and his son Stevie does meet n greet at the front door.
On the FT conference website Stevie is listed as Sponsorship contact. On his Twitter account Stevie describes himself as a Cunning Linguist whatever that means and movie producer. The latest Hargitay epic, Chicks dig Gay Guys - with added artistic nudity has been scheduled for release for the last two years. A screening may be part of the Rio entertainment. The movie message is, pretend to be a male homosexual and the chicks strip off fast. The FT provides for every need.
Chairing the conference is FT Sports Correspondent Roger Blitz who has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ask Keynote speaker Blatter to come clean about the FBI investigation and how $100 million in contract kickbacks from a marketing company was laundered through Liechtenstein to FIFAs leaders.
On a more personal level, Blitz could inquire, did Blatters heart miss a beat on March 3, 1997 when he discovered a one million Swiss Francs bribe to Rio resident and former FIFA president Joao Havelange being laundered through a FIFA account?
Blitz could also invite the shifty Peter Hargitay to reveal to the 200-strong audience the names of the FIFA officials he planned to bribe with the 4 million he asked the English FA to give him to win their bid to host the World Cup. The Swiss-Hungarian conman could also entertain with tales of his seven months banged up in Miami before being cleared of cocaine trafficking.
As the bribes scandal began to take off in 2002, Blatter hired Peter Hargitay to poison the wells of English journalism. Hargitay boasts that he can divert reporters from clients problems. He did a great job in London. The sports news reporters universally ignored the ISL scandal.
The IFA conference organisers can be found in a modest Zurich villa in Lavaterstrasse. Under the same roof is one of Hargitays many businesses, private detective agency AB Investigations, where he has been billed as a Managing Partner.
ABI promises clients government-level surveillance, and special covert operation assignments and where needed, physical intervention on behalf of corporate clients. A previous Hargitay business at this address promised it could hack bank accounts. Is this the kind of service the FT is offering its customers?
ITS BEEN A LONG WAIT for the Feds to make their move. A meeting with Special Agents at Birmingham New Street station in November 2011 had to be aborted. Another time tickets were reserved for a big game at Wembley some of the G-men are serious football fans but that trip was cancelled. In the years that we communicated I handed over documents proving that FIFA leaders had received kickbacks on contracts and pointed them to sources with firsthand knowledge. We engaged in lengthy phone calls and exchanged maybe 100 emails.
After I told them about confidential information available in Switzerland they contacted Swiss criminal authorities under the Mutual Assistance Treaty. During a conference in Miami in 2010, where I addressed law enforcement officials about FIFA corruption and the evidence that FIFA operated as an Organised Crime Family, I had discussions with a senior IRS counsel. Prior to this widely advertised conference the organisers and I were threatened by FIFA lawyers.
The last time I met face to face with the FBI was in a private office close to their London embassy in the week before the London Olympics. Again, I was able to give them crucial documents.
Later they told me that one of the documents was particularly useful for their purposes. This was a list of bribes implicating several leading FIFA officials. They promised that while the judicial process may seem glacial, things are progressing.
Olympic RingsThe IOC could face embarrassment. After I revealed in a November 2010 BBC Panorama programme that Havelange had taken bribes at FIFA, the IOC began the process that forced the old crook to resign. But they shied away from the unequivocal evidence that Blatter handled the bribe that shamed Havelange. Will they now crank up a Blatter investigation before the FBI do it for them?
For the last two years, while Blatter has been persuading gullible journalists to publish uplifting stories about his roadmap for reform, investigators from Federal agencies in Washington and New York have been assembling evidence of corruption in World Cup voting.
The possibility of a re-run of both the 2018 and 2022 votes cannot be ruled out. If bribery can be proved on one vote, it taints the other. One problem staging a new vote could be that some senior FIFA officials may be reluctant to leave their own countries, fearing they may be named in sealed indictments in New York and be arrested as they transit through airports. This happened during the 1999 Salt Lake scandal at the IOC. When an American government official turned up in Lausanne surrounded by armed US Marshalls some IOC members feared they would be arrested and shipped to the Utah dungeons.
Blatters choreographed FIFA Congress in Mauritius at the end of May looks shaky. If the Feds are working in the background, its hard to take this expensive reward to the Blatter faithful seriously. If he is free to attend, Blatter will pretend all is well, the Feds are just a blip. Hes staging it in a location too expensive for most foreign and experienced media. If hes not free to attend, the consequences are too wonderful to predict at this time.
The English FA will soon appoint a new chairman. Will Greg Dyke be the man to stand up, shout stinking fish and demand genuine reform?
Additional research: Karrie Kehoe
transparencyinsportblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/what-i-told-the-fbi-about-the-fifa-crooks/
What I told the FBI about the FIFA crooks
March 27, 2013 by Andrew Jennings in Uncategorized
Federal Bureau of InvestigationTHE 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 Organised Crime squad from New York since they contacted me seeking evidence nearly three years ago.
United States Department of Justice Law enforcement sources in New York and Washington confirmed today that they are investigating a major case involving allegations of corruption at FIFA. The probe is into allegations of fraud and bribery. It began in the North, Central American and Caribbean regional football confederation but the money trail leads back to FIFAs HQ in Zurich, Switzerland. Unofficial sources have confirmed that Daryan Warner, eldest son of disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner of Trinidad, has become a co-operating witness with the FBI probe. Warner jnr has been resident in Florida for the last two months and clearly is not free to leave America. It has yet to be divulged what evidence the FBI have on him but it is likely to be substantial and enough to make him break family confidences in return for serving less jail time.
Daryan Warner was always the back office money-man organising the laundering and concealment of bribes and profits from every kind of illicit football activity by his father siphoning off grants, dealing in World Cup tickets and pocketing substantial bribes from countries hoping to host the World Cup. Warner frequently worked in concert with fellow FIFA executive committee member Chuck Blazer from New York.
The FIFA career of Jack Warner began to unravel in May 2011 when he was caught with $1 million in bribes, in envelopes each containing $40,000 in cash, for distributing to Caribbean football associations. The aim was to persuade them to vote for Qatars Mohamed Bin Hammam who was contesting the FIFA presidency against incumbent Sepp Blatter. Blazer ratted on Warner to FIFA but was himself soon engulfed in documented corruption allegations
Where will the FBI investigation go next? For a start, they are not alone. For 18 months there have been parallel investigations by Americas tax authorities, the Internal Revenue Service. The secret probes range from Port of Spain to Trump Tower to Cayman, Paradise Island to Miami, Zurich to Zug and much further to the Gulf. They have co-operated with police in London and Switzerland.
The industrial-scale thieving of Warner and Blazer is woven into the fabric of FIFA. Repeatedly, the gruesome duo were encouraged to plunder grants and World Cup tickets. In return they delivered votes to keep Blatter in power. Football lovers must dream that the G-Men will find reasons to extend their investigations into Issa Hayatous African empire and the rest of FIFA.
As the FBI spreads its net, FIFA officials in Zurich should be seeking advice from their personal lawyers about what to say if the Feds come knocking. If they have handled corrupt payments authorised by Blatter or General Secretary Jerome Valcke, they may find it wise to followDaryan Warners example and become collaborating witnesses rather than risk extradition and jail.
Honest FIFA staff could volunteer more names. It would be unfair if only Warner and Blazer were held to account for the looting of FIFA. At any time in recent years up to half the FIFA ExCo were involved in dubious activities. The remainder, well-rewarded by Blatter with big fees, expenses and fistfuls of World Cup tickets, looked the other way, unwilling to hold their colleagues to account.
The FBI is also showing interest in the dubious decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. The Agents have acquired some very specific information but that topic must be left for the moment. Another group of investigators, working alongside the FBI, is looking at one other big-ticket FIFA decision.
Following the disclosures in 2010 by journalists at Sunday Times Insight and BBC Panorama of corruption at the highest level of FIFA Blatter should have been evicted from power and his personal financial dealings probed. Instead he was allowed to get away with announcing independent investigations, controlled by him.
These may now be irrelevant. Former US prosecutor Michael Garcia, selected by Blatter, promises to tell us soon what we already know about the $100 million kickbacks from ISL to ExCo members and Blatters involvement. The governance reforms suggested by Swiss professor Mark Pieth, also appointed by Blatter and now mostly ignored, are fizzling out.
The FBI investigations, combined with endless corruption scandals in Brazil, threatens the success of next years World Cup. In November 2010 I revealed in a BBC Panorama programme that Ricardo Teixeira, boss of Brazilian football, a member of the FIFA ExCo and former son-in-law of Joao Havelange, had trousered at least $10 million in contract kickbacks at FIFA. Eventually, a year ago, he was forced out of FIFA and Brazilian football.
It gets worse. Teixeiras successor at the Brazilian federation, Jos Maria Marin, is implicated in the murder by the military dictatorship in 1975 of a former BBC journalist. In recent days Brazilian media has obtained tapes of Marin discussing dirty deals in football. The new chair of the Congressional Sports and Tourism Committee, former footballer Romario, has called for Marin to be jailed. Brazilians are becoming restless at the FIFA ripoffs, expected to pay the vast bill for staging the World Cup while watching a record $5 billion profit disappear back to Zurich.
Sao Paulo cops, investigating the theft of confidential government information, raided the home of Marco Polo Del Nero, Teixeiras successor at FIFAs ExCo, in November. Del Nero, 70, claimed he was checking his 28- year-old model girlfriend Carolina Galan was not being unfaithful.
SINCE CHRISTMAS the bloggers of Trinidad have been shouting to the world that Daryan Warner, son of Jack, had been arrested at Miami airport carrying a bag of cash. Depending who you read, it started at $100,000 and escalated as high as $750,000. Some said that Jacks other son, Daryl Warner was also detained. In early March the cautious mainstream Trinidad media, despite threats from Jack Warner, began publishing stories about the son of a Cabinet member under arrest in Miami, accused of money laundering.
Now they are vindicated. One by-product of the scandal may be to terminate the increasingly absurd administration of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Despite Warner hurriedly quitting FIFA ahead of corruption investigations she appointed him to take charge of the police (yes, really) and the army (Yes!) and has denied for weeks knowing about the arrest of Daryan.
Because Warner spent millions of dollars buying success at the polls for her UNC party Kamla has given him a free hand to persecute opponents and appoint incompetent loyalists to well-paid government jobs. The latest disclosures in corrupt Trinidad politics is that Warner has secretly created his own tax-payer funded squad of Ton Ton Macoutes.
If the Feds decide to extradite Warner they face a tough task. If he surrounds himself with cops and soldiers the squad that took out Bin Laden may be needed.
THE NEXT VICTIM of the FBI investigation may be the Financial Times newspaper. It runs business conferences and has just announced a Business of Football Summit in Rio in June. Top of the bill will be FIFA president Blatter.
It will be embarrassing if Blatter turns up and equally bad if he is detained elsewhere. And its an altogether strange affair. In the shadows, available to FT clients, will be lurking a dark arts operative who boasts of hacking bank accounts and phones.
Organising the event for the FT at the Copacabana Palace hotel is Zurich-based company International Football Arena who stage footie conferences where uncritical reporters, club owners and potential sponsors pay to mingle with Blatter. His PR-man Peter Hargitay does the introductions and his son Stevie does meet n greet at the front door.
On the FT conference website Stevie is listed as Sponsorship contact. On his Twitter account Stevie describes himself as a Cunning Linguist whatever that means and movie producer. The latest Hargitay epic, Chicks dig Gay Guys - with added artistic nudity has been scheduled for release for the last two years. A screening may be part of the Rio entertainment. The movie message is, pretend to be a male homosexual and the chicks strip off fast. The FT provides for every need.
Chairing the conference is FT Sports Correspondent Roger Blitz who has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ask Keynote speaker Blatter to come clean about the FBI investigation and how $100 million in contract kickbacks from a marketing company was laundered through Liechtenstein to FIFAs leaders.
On a more personal level, Blitz could inquire, did Blatters heart miss a beat on March 3, 1997 when he discovered a one million Swiss Francs bribe to Rio resident and former FIFA president Joao Havelange being laundered through a FIFA account?
Blitz could also invite the shifty Peter Hargitay to reveal to the 200-strong audience the names of the FIFA officials he planned to bribe with the 4 million he asked the English FA to give him to win their bid to host the World Cup. The Swiss-Hungarian conman could also entertain with tales of his seven months banged up in Miami before being cleared of cocaine trafficking.
As the bribes scandal began to take off in 2002, Blatter hired Peter Hargitay to poison the wells of English journalism. Hargitay boasts that he can divert reporters from clients problems. He did a great job in London. The sports news reporters universally ignored the ISL scandal.
The IFA conference organisers can be found in a modest Zurich villa in Lavaterstrasse. Under the same roof is one of Hargitays many businesses, private detective agency AB Investigations, where he has been billed as a Managing Partner.
ABI promises clients government-level surveillance, and special covert operation assignments and where needed, physical intervention on behalf of corporate clients. A previous Hargitay business at this address promised it could hack bank accounts. Is this the kind of service the FT is offering its customers?
ITS BEEN A LONG WAIT for the Feds to make their move. A meeting with Special Agents at Birmingham New Street station in November 2011 had to be aborted. Another time tickets were reserved for a big game at Wembley some of the G-men are serious football fans but that trip was cancelled. In the years that we communicated I handed over documents proving that FIFA leaders had received kickbacks on contracts and pointed them to sources with firsthand knowledge. We engaged in lengthy phone calls and exchanged maybe 100 emails.
After I told them about confidential information available in Switzerland they contacted Swiss criminal authorities under the Mutual Assistance Treaty. During a conference in Miami in 2010, where I addressed law enforcement officials about FIFA corruption and the evidence that FIFA operated as an Organised Crime Family, I had discussions with a senior IRS counsel. Prior to this widely advertised conference the organisers and I were threatened by FIFA lawyers.
The last time I met face to face with the FBI was in a private office close to their London embassy in the week before the London Olympics. Again, I was able to give them crucial documents.
Later they told me that one of the documents was particularly useful for their purposes. This was a list of bribes implicating several leading FIFA officials. They promised that while the judicial process may seem glacial, things are progressing.
Olympic RingsThe IOC could face embarrassment. After I revealed in a November 2010 BBC Panorama programme that Havelange had taken bribes at FIFA, the IOC began the process that forced the old crook to resign. But they shied away from the unequivocal evidence that Blatter handled the bribe that shamed Havelange. Will they now crank up a Blatter investigation before the FBI do it for them?
For the last two years, while Blatter has been persuading gullible journalists to publish uplifting stories about his roadmap for reform, investigators from Federal agencies in Washington and New York have been assembling evidence of corruption in World Cup voting.
The possibility of a re-run of both the 2018 and 2022 votes cannot be ruled out. If bribery can be proved on one vote, it taints the other. One problem staging a new vote could be that some senior FIFA officials may be reluctant to leave their own countries, fearing they may be named in sealed indictments in New York and be arrested as they transit through airports. This happened during the 1999 Salt Lake scandal at the IOC. When an American government official turned up in Lausanne surrounded by armed US Marshalls some IOC members feared they would be arrested and shipped to the Utah dungeons.
Blatters choreographed FIFA Congress in Mauritius at the end of May looks shaky. If the Feds are working in the background, its hard to take this expensive reward to the Blatter faithful seriously. If he is free to attend, Blatter will pretend all is well, the Feds are just a blip. Hes staging it in a location too expensive for most foreign and experienced media. If hes not free to attend, the consequences are too wonderful to predict at this time.
The English FA will soon appoint a new chairman. Will Greg Dyke be the man to stand up, shout stinking fish and demand genuine reform?
Additional research: Karrie Kehoe
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Football / COP - JACK MUST BE REMOVED (TT Express 5.08 pm )
« on: April 20, 2013, 03:29:58 PM »
Story Updated: Apr 20, 2013 at 5:16 PM ECT
The following is the statement of the Congress of the People, signed by its political leader Prakash Ramadhar -
The Time has come for the Minister of National Security, Jack Warner to exit this Government or be removed.
The Congress of the People takes note of the final report of the Integrity Committee of CONCACAF which was made public yesterday, Friday 19th April 2013 after a year long investigation into allegations against its former President Jack Warner and former General Secretary Chuck Blazer.
It is important to note that the Chairman of the CONCACAF Integrity Committee Sir David Simmons is a person of high international repute and judicial experience, whose credentials were accepted by this Government to head the Commission of Enquiry into the 1990 Coup. In order to maintain credibility and trust in Government and country, we have always maintained that persons in high public office facing serious allegations ought to step aside until the conclusion of such investigations.
When prior serious allegations were made by the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA), Mr. Warner had every opportunity to clear his name. He chose to avoid that process by resigning and indicating he would disclose a Tsunami of truth. Mr. Warner had ample time to do so as the country expected no less. He chose not to.
The COP places country first and is of the strong view that Trinidad and Tobagos reputation must not be endangered. To that end, we call upon Mr. Warner to stand down as a Minister of this Government for the sake of the people of Trinidad and Tobago.
The Congress of the People reiterates that the time has come for the Minister of National Security, Jack Warner to exit this Government or be removed.
- Richard Charan (Multimedia Editor)
The following is the statement of the Congress of the People, signed by its political leader Prakash Ramadhar -
The Time has come for the Minister of National Security, Jack Warner to exit this Government or be removed.
The Congress of the People takes note of the final report of the Integrity Committee of CONCACAF which was made public yesterday, Friday 19th April 2013 after a year long investigation into allegations against its former President Jack Warner and former General Secretary Chuck Blazer.
It is important to note that the Chairman of the CONCACAF Integrity Committee Sir David Simmons is a person of high international repute and judicial experience, whose credentials were accepted by this Government to head the Commission of Enquiry into the 1990 Coup. In order to maintain credibility and trust in Government and country, we have always maintained that persons in high public office facing serious allegations ought to step aside until the conclusion of such investigations.
When prior serious allegations were made by the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA), Mr. Warner had every opportunity to clear his name. He chose to avoid that process by resigning and indicating he would disclose a Tsunami of truth. Mr. Warner had ample time to do so as the country expected no less. He chose not to.
The COP places country first and is of the strong view that Trinidad and Tobagos reputation must not be endangered. To that end, we call upon Mr. Warner to stand down as a Minister of this Government for the sake of the people of Trinidad and Tobago.
The Congress of the People reiterates that the time has come for the Minister of National Security, Jack Warner to exit this Government or be removed.
- Richard Charan (Multimedia Editor)
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Football / Re: Jack dimisses Concacaf probe PM STUNNED
« on: April 20, 2013, 05:26:57 AM »
How embarrassing for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago! This not done as yet, more fireworks to come, and even more embarrassment internationally for Trinidad and Tobago....
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Football / Re: Sports Ministry unveil Womens World Cup tickets
« on: June 25, 2010, 05:56:08 AM »
Thanks TallMAN
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Football / Where can I get FIFA women's Under 17 tickets - pls post link or contact #..
« on: June 25, 2010, 05:24:09 AM »
Thanks 
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Football / Re: Anyone aware of when and where 2 collect tickets purchased on line for GUA game?
« on: August 31, 2008, 08:54:13 AM »
you mean to tell me......know body knows where and when to pick up tickets...I checked the website and there is NO information and I have been out of the country so I did not see any press releases.......help!!
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Football / Anyone aware of when and where 2 collect tickets purchased on line for GUA game?
« on: August 31, 2008, 08:08:19 AM »
>>>
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Football / Re: 2 Covered stand tickets for TT England
« on: May 30, 2008, 03:01:12 PM »
what price (non bogus) uncovered tix going for now ?? anyone knows what price people calling
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Football / Chile vs Canada - additional bits of humorous info
« on: July 02, 2007, 06:03:06 AM »
when Jack get introduced in the Stadium - HE GET REAL BOOED...
when the Mayor of TO get introduced - HE GET BOOED
and
most amazing of all - ON THE PA THE DJ played TRINI to de BONE at half TIME in its entirety.....like JACK pay de DJ
when the Mayor of TO get introduced - HE GET BOOED
and
most amazing of all - ON THE PA THE DJ played TRINI to de BONE at half TIME in its entirety.....like JACK pay de DJ
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Football / Silvio Spann Gets GOL TV CANADA GOAL OF TOURNAMENT..nm
« on: June 24, 2007, 02:06:50 PM »
no more...and that is the GOLD CUP btw
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Football / Re: Mexico, Haiti, El Salvador, and TnT in Digicel mini tournament
« on: April 29, 2007, 03:55:34 PM »
both EL SALVADOR AND HAITI (as well as JAMAICA...not in tournament) are sponsored by Digicel
..so there is a strong possibility that this tournament could happen
..so there is a strong possibility that this tournament could happen
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Football / Re: Digicel thanks CFU for big efforts in Cup Finals.
« on: January 26, 2007, 07:08:02 PM »
Digicel is the sponsor for the JA football, Haiti and NOW EL Salvador football team
They are entering into central America and want to make an impression....
They are entering into central America and want to make an impression....
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Football / Re: Wim Rijsbergen to take over as head coach.
« on: July 12, 2006, 07:25:38 AM »
Ah dont know if this was mentioned prior to my post but
JACK say last night on TV that Leo had offers from US and Australia and they were turned down because of his age (64) and the travelling factor. Travelling is taking a toll on him and Poland is practically next door.
This makes sense to me
JACK say last night on TV that Leo had offers from US and Australia and they were turned down because of his age (64) and the travelling factor. Travelling is taking a toll on him and Poland is practically next door.
This makes sense to me
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Football / Re: Wim Rijsbergen to take over as head coach.
« on: July 11, 2006, 01:17:42 PM »
I have a feeling that was going to happen, looks like Leo lookng after Poland for EURO 2008
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Football / Re: Soca Warriors Video - check it out
« on: July 07, 2006, 09:52:18 AM »
OWT, is it possible to get downloads of the entire 3 games from you. The commentary you have on
the clips I have seen is way more exciting to what we were presented....Thanks
the clips I have seen is way more exciting to what we were presented....Thanks
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Football / Re: TTFF to present “Football 2010” towards South Africa.
« on: July 06, 2006, 03:48:55 PM »
My Take.....Beenie Man will go with Poland for 2 years(euro 2008), complete that and then swing back by T&T Leaving Wim in charge until 2008
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Football / Re: Where Beenie goin thread
« on: July 06, 2006, 11:40:07 AM »
He tell Jack and dem he needs some time to think.
Beenhakker’s future being discussed (6 July 06)
BY NIGEL SIMON (Trinidad Guardian)
Lincoln Phillips, technical director of the T&T Football Federation, says its up to the federation and its technical committee to get local coaches up to the international standard.
He was commenting on media reports which said, the T&TFF was ready to appoint Wim Rijsbergen, assistant to Leo Beenhakker during T&T’s World Cup campaign, as the new national coach.
Beenhakker, 63, coach of the Dutch team which participated in the 1990 Finals in Italy, was offered an extension of his contract prior to T&T’s final Group B match at the World Cup against Portugal, but he said he needed more time to reply to the offer.
Rijsbergen was part of the Netherlands team at the 1974 World Cup. He has been assistant since Beenhakker’s appointment as national coach in place of Bertille St Clair, with T&T on one point after four matches in the Concacaf qualifiers.
The report in a newspaper stated that an arrangement was being made to have Rijsbergen coach the team for the next two years, during which Beenhakker will make visits to T&T to monitor the development of the team, before resuming as head coach in time for the Concacaf World Cup 2010 qualifiers.
Asked if Rijsbergen appointment was confirmed, Phillips, a former national goalkeeper and first ever certified Fifa goalkeeper coach said, “No, nothing has been made official yet.
“We have been discussing for continuity sake the positions for a slate of coaches for all our national teams.
“These things are being done by the technical and executive committees of the T&TFF, because we firmly believe that for us to continue to qualify for major tournaments and moreso the World Cup on a regular basis, there needs to be continuity in our programme.”
Phillips said, because of this problem, T&T always finds itself two years behind when it comes to preparing a team for the World Cup.
He elaborated: “After every World Cup we go to sleep for two years and then when the qualifying series begin, we are always caught in the process of now building a team.”
Reflecting on the tenure of ex-national coach Bertille St Clair, Phillips noted that this was one of the reasons he (St Clair) never had a consistent line-up for any number of matches.
“Because of our late start to preparing for the World Cup in Germany, St Clair had to be constantly looking for players during our matches, and had he been in charge long before it would have been done earlier.
“Luckily for us, Leo came along and we qualified for the finals.
“Leo did an outstanding job in getting us there and it is because of this reason he has to be given the first right of refusal for the post as national coach at this moment.
“Wim is another choice, he knows the players and it will only be prudent, also, that we utilise local coaches, like Anton Corneal, as one of the coaches.
“We also need to keep people like Russell Latapy and other former players who are serious about coaching.
“For the moment, we want to maintain the coaches who have the international exposure.
Looking ahead, Phillips said the T&TFF is about making sure the coaches get the proper exposure, so that very soon we will not have to depend on importing coaches, but we will be able to export our own coaches.
“The local guys, on the other hand, we will develop through more coaching programmes, which we hope to develop both locally and overseas, including clinics with coaches at Barcelona and Manchester United,” ended Phillips.
Beenhakker’s future being discussed (6 July 06)
BY NIGEL SIMON (Trinidad Guardian)
Lincoln Phillips, technical director of the T&T Football Federation, says its up to the federation and its technical committee to get local coaches up to the international standard.
He was commenting on media reports which said, the T&TFF was ready to appoint Wim Rijsbergen, assistant to Leo Beenhakker during T&T’s World Cup campaign, as the new national coach.
Beenhakker, 63, coach of the Dutch team which participated in the 1990 Finals in Italy, was offered an extension of his contract prior to T&T’s final Group B match at the World Cup against Portugal, but he said he needed more time to reply to the offer.
Rijsbergen was part of the Netherlands team at the 1974 World Cup. He has been assistant since Beenhakker’s appointment as national coach in place of Bertille St Clair, with T&T on one point after four matches in the Concacaf qualifiers.
The report in a newspaper stated that an arrangement was being made to have Rijsbergen coach the team for the next two years, during which Beenhakker will make visits to T&T to monitor the development of the team, before resuming as head coach in time for the Concacaf World Cup 2010 qualifiers.
Asked if Rijsbergen appointment was confirmed, Phillips, a former national goalkeeper and first ever certified Fifa goalkeeper coach said, “No, nothing has been made official yet.
“We have been discussing for continuity sake the positions for a slate of coaches for all our national teams.
“These things are being done by the technical and executive committees of the T&TFF, because we firmly believe that for us to continue to qualify for major tournaments and moreso the World Cup on a regular basis, there needs to be continuity in our programme.”
Phillips said, because of this problem, T&T always finds itself two years behind when it comes to preparing a team for the World Cup.
He elaborated: “After every World Cup we go to sleep for two years and then when the qualifying series begin, we are always caught in the process of now building a team.”
Reflecting on the tenure of ex-national coach Bertille St Clair, Phillips noted that this was one of the reasons he (St Clair) never had a consistent line-up for any number of matches.
“Because of our late start to preparing for the World Cup in Germany, St Clair had to be constantly looking for players during our matches, and had he been in charge long before it would have been done earlier.
“Luckily for us, Leo came along and we qualified for the finals.
“Leo did an outstanding job in getting us there and it is because of this reason he has to be given the first right of refusal for the post as national coach at this moment.
“Wim is another choice, he knows the players and it will only be prudent, also, that we utilise local coaches, like Anton Corneal, as one of the coaches.
“We also need to keep people like Russell Latapy and other former players who are serious about coaching.
“For the moment, we want to maintain the coaches who have the international exposure.
Looking ahead, Phillips said the T&TFF is about making sure the coaches get the proper exposure, so that very soon we will not have to depend on importing coaches, but we will be able to export our own coaches.
“The local guys, on the other hand, we will develop through more coaching programmes, which we hope to develop both locally and overseas, including clinics with coaches at Barcelona and Manchester United,” ended Phillips.
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2006 World Cup - Germany / anyone has england vs TT downloaded ? Please post it so we can get it
« on: June 16, 2006, 06:23:54 AM »
need download
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2006 World Cup - Germany / Re: T&T vs Paraguay tickets - face value sale
« on: June 14, 2006, 07:08:51 AM »
i want them, please call 8686208192....I am in Germany
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2006 World Cup - Germany / Re: 2 X CATEGORY 1 TICKETS FOR T&T - ENGLAND
« on: June 14, 2006, 07:06:08 AM »
i am in Germany, pls call me at 868-6208192...let me know cost
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Football / Re: Jamaica vs England, and T&T vs Czech Republic
« on: June 03, 2006, 04:41:52 AM »
ON the FOX Sports Report the presenter (I Think Bobby) said JAMAICA has announced that this is THEIR WORLD CUP, bring it on Guys, show de English how to play Caribbean football, mix it up and mash em up...take no prisoners!
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2006 World Cup - Germany / Re: England's weakest link
« on: March 17, 2006, 09:02:47 AM »
Tourment Roney and Beckham....they will get angry and do something stupid
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2006 World Cup - Germany / Re: FIFA on lıne tıckets....feb 15
« on: February 15, 2006, 09:14:43 AM »
Forget it.....every single ticket for every game is GONE
regards
regards
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2006 World Cup - Germany / Simpauls change their package ....27000 ...no game ticket or airfare ..
« on: January 09, 2006, 04:26:43 AM »
www.simpaultravel.com/package.htm
The basic paCKage is as follows:
*
12 nights accommodation (city info to come after the WC Draw)
*
The official team supporter kit
*
Supporter Wristband
*
National flag
*
T&T Warriors Travel bag
The T&T Warriors Travel Bag contains the following:
- An official Soca Warriors shirt (limited edition) collector's item
- An Official Soca Warriors wallet
- An Official Soca Warriors Key Chain
- An Official Soca Warriors Poster
- An Official Soca Warriors Fridge Magnet
- An Official Soca Warriors whistle with coil wristband
- Official Adidas Soca Warriors supporter shirt
- Official Soca Warriors wall clock (for deluxe packages ONLY)
- Official Team replica jersey (for deluxe packages ONLY)
Price $27,000 per person based on double occupancy.
Match Tickets are not included and you must source these directly from TTFF (Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation) or via the FIFA Web site.
Our deluxe packages can include airfare, accommodations, ground
transportation (to and from airports, stadiums & cities), guided sightseeing city tours, on-site hospitality, celebrity guest appearances, official football gift packages, Simpaul Travel parties, pre-sent informational itinerary packets and much much more.
Price based on request.
The basic paCKage is as follows:
*
12 nights accommodation (city info to come after the WC Draw)
*
The official team supporter kit
*
Supporter Wristband
*
National flag
*
T&T Warriors Travel bag
The T&T Warriors Travel Bag contains the following:
- An official Soca Warriors shirt (limited edition) collector's item
- An Official Soca Warriors wallet
- An Official Soca Warriors Key Chain
- An Official Soca Warriors Poster
- An Official Soca Warriors Fridge Magnet
- An Official Soca Warriors whistle with coil wristband
- Official Adidas Soca Warriors supporter shirt
- Official Soca Warriors wall clock (for deluxe packages ONLY)
- Official Team replica jersey (for deluxe packages ONLY)
Price $27,000 per person based on double occupancy.
Match Tickets are not included and you must source these directly from TTFF (Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation) or via the FIFA Web site.
Our deluxe packages can include airfare, accommodations, ground
transportation (to and from airports, stadiums & cities), guided sightseeing city tours, on-site hospitality, celebrity guest appearances, official football gift packages, Simpaul Travel parties, pre-sent informational itinerary packets and much much more.
Price based on request.
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Football / Re: J'lloyd and Zammora
« on: January 09, 2006, 04:23:50 AM »
I hear from a good source that Zamora will be on board....(anyway I watch FSC yesterday, and there way a count down for the top goals, he get the # 1 goal )
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Football / Warner.....THE SPINNER...
« on: January 03, 2006, 07:45:56 PM »
he should go on Bill Oriely and throw the "SPIN"...but ah tell yuh...he is smart and has been caught, theamount he will make is approx 36,000,000.00, based on 18000 profit per package....Liaburd is correct, his facts are true.......but unfortunalelty Liaburd is not a spinner and cannot duck out like JACK.....no more 
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Football / Re: Robbed ‘73 team for Germany.
« on: December 26, 2005, 04:16:22 PM »
Bebe Wells is the man behind Mycon Travel 5000.00 USD package with Airfare, xfers etc
Quote from
http://www.socawarriorssc.com/swonline/smf/index.php?topic=8161.0
GENERAL:
As expected, costs have increased following the December 9, 2005 draw date. Additionally, the availability of game tickets, international air transport, hotel space, and ground transport is already increasingly problematic. Do not miss out on this convenient, cost-effective opportunity to be a part of the Trinbagonian support team (in the actual T&T section of the stadium, with the Strike Squad and the Team of '73) in Germany 2006. There can only be one "first time" at the World Cup. Be a part of history, play your part in bringing a Trini flavour to the World's biggest international party.
Any further information, please contact our agent offices at 868-653-7925 or contact Anthony Clarke directly at 868-680-8687 (email: dessco@tstt.net.tt ) or Gerard Osborne directly at 868-741-7874 (email: gerardosborne@bellsouth.net). We will continue to keep you in the know. Please mention reference number “AC001” to ensure that you receive this special rate.
Wir gehen nach Deutschland. Let’s go support our Soca Warriors
Quote from
http://www.socawarriorssc.com/swonline/smf/index.php?topic=8161.0
GENERAL:
As expected, costs have increased following the December 9, 2005 draw date. Additionally, the availability of game tickets, international air transport, hotel space, and ground transport is already increasingly problematic. Do not miss out on this convenient, cost-effective opportunity to be a part of the Trinbagonian support team (in the actual T&T section of the stadium, with the Strike Squad and the Team of '73) in Germany 2006. There can only be one "first time" at the World Cup. Be a part of history, play your part in bringing a Trini flavour to the World's biggest international party.
Any further information, please contact our agent offices at 868-653-7925 or contact Anthony Clarke directly at 868-680-8687 (email: dessco@tstt.net.tt ) or Gerard Osborne directly at 868-741-7874 (email: gerardosborne@bellsouth.net). We will continue to keep you in the know. Please mention reference number “AC001” to ensure that you receive this special rate.
Wir gehen nach Deutschland. Let’s go support our Soca Warriors
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Football / Re: Warner's family firm monopolises FIFA World Cup tickets
« on: December 26, 2005, 10:23:54 AM »
18000 $ profit by 2000 packages is a wopping 36 million profit....with NO refund policy
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Football / Re: Uruguay Friendlies
« on: December 26, 2005, 10:13:48 AM »
was it wales suppose to play uruguay ?