Big up to Chuck Blazer.

[Sam]

Yes, he might be a crook too, but because of him Jack Warner, the biggest crook in T&T have collapse and still collapsing. If you leave it up to a local man to do Jack would have still been here.

Now a bright light will be shinning in T&T and now T&T football could grow, then again, under Tim Kee, I eh sure bout that, now who Tim Kee go drink Scotch and Coconut water with ?

Anil Next !!!

[Deeks]

Well, he was getting he balls squeezed by the US authorities, so he squealed.

[davyjenny1]

Blazer is a thief as well as Joao Havelange of the past including Blatter and his member associations of FIFA. Here comes a ruthless real hungry black man from the caribbean dribbling all over the place like a dog with rabies could hardly understand him when he speaks doh know how to thief like the europeans and asians so the shit hit the fan to expose all ah them.   

[davidephraim]

Blazer is a thief as well as Joao Havelange of the past including Blatter and his member associations of FIFA. Here comes a ruthless real hungry black man from the caribbean dribbling all over the place like a dog with rabies could hardly understand him when he speaks doh know how to thief like the europeans and asians so the shit hit the fan to expose all ah them.   

Ah aint think so yuh know Davy. I think Jack is a very effective thief but when yuh bite the hand that allows you to feed yourself then it bits back. THe ironic thing is that all the thief talk; Is like de pot callin de kettle black.  If yuh on de wrong side - yuh acceptin bribes but if yuh on the right side - then its called sponsorship. Wrong side - yuh paying to bribe the federation. On the Right side - your investing in development. Blame duality I suspect!

[concerned]

Both Chuck and Daryan would have been shown pictures of a Federal Prison in the US...so they start talking

[asylumseeker]

The mystifying thing is that Jack got his political calculus wrong with respect to challenging Blatter. Instead he just helped Blatter to linger. But, it seems he feared someone else assuming the mantle of rightful heir. These revelations - astounding as they are - probably pale when compared to some of the stunts he probably pulled to move up the FIFA hierarchy. He and bin Hamman are the only 2 that got it wrong. Grondona and Hayatou are still well-ensconced in South America and Africa. Dahis nuff territory upon which to leverage patronage, tributes, fiefdom and largesse oblige.

[g]

There are whistle blower laws in the US that give some levels of immunity. IRS and FBI doh play

Chuck take in front before in front take him

[weary1969]

There are whistle blower laws in the US that give some levels of immunity. IRS and FBI doh play

Chuck take in front before in front take him

ENTTTTTT

[davidephraim]

The mystifying thing is that Jack got his political calculus wrong with respect to challenging Blatter. Instead he just helped Blatter to linger. But, it seems he feared someone else assuming the mantle of rightful heir. These revelations - astounding as they are - probably pale when compared to some of the stunts he probably pulled to move up the FIFA hierarchy. He and bin Hamman are the only 2 that got it wrong. Grondona and Hayatou are still well-ensconced in South America and Africa. Dahis nuff territory upon which to leverage patronage, tributes, fiefdom and largesse oblige.

Ah feel is cocky he get cocky. He try to make a power play and it back fire hard.  Also think he thought it was done; with his threats of tsunami and hurricane. After Blatter and crew cat-spraddle him, then they schuk dey dogs on him (FBI & IRS). Domino effect.  I'm intrigued to see this play out; see the power of the dogs, even when there jurisdiction is questionable.

[Observer]

The mystifying thing is that Jack got his political calculus wrong with respect to challenging Blatter. Instead he just helped Blatter to linger. But, it seems he feared someone else assuming the mantle of rightful heir. These revelations - astounding as they are - probably pale when compared to some of the stunts he probably pulled to move up the FIFA hierarchy. He and bin Hamman are the only 2 that got it wrong. Grondona and Hayatou are still well-ensconced in South America and Africa. Dahis nuff territory upon which to leverage patronage, tributes, fiefdom and largesse oblige.

Ah feel is cocky he get cocky. He try to make a power play and it back fire hard.  Also think he thought it was done; with his threats of tsunami and hurricane. After Blatter and crew cat-spraddle him, then they schuk dey dogs on him (FBI & IRS). Domino effect.  I'm intrigued to see this play out; see the power of the dogs, even when there jurisdiction is questionable.

He underestimated the ultimate iron man of FIFA politics & politics in general. Jack eh realize that the teacher taught him everything
he knows, but not everything the teacher knows.

[lefty]

The mystifying thing is that Jack got his political calculus wrong with respect to challenging Blatter. Instead he just helped Blatter to linger. But, it seems he feared someone else assuming the mantle of rightful heir. These revelations - astounding as they are - probably pale when compared to some of the stunts he probably pulled to move up the FIFA hierarchy. He and bin Hamman are the only 2 that got it wrong. Grondona and Hayatou are still well-ensconced in South America and Africa. Dahis nuff territory upon which to leverage patronage, tributes, fiefdom and largesse oblige.

Ah feel is cocky he get cocky. He try to make a power play and it back fire hard.  Also think he thought it was done; with his threats of tsunami and hurricane. After Blatter and crew cat-spraddle him, then they schuk dey dogs on him (FBI & IRS). Domino effect.  I'm intrigued to see this play out; see the power of the dogs, even when there jurisdiction is questionable.

He underestimated the ultimate iron man of FIFA politics & politics in general. Jack eh realize that the teacher taught him everything
he knows, but not everything the teacher knows.

I said this long time when d bribery ting broke, so 1+ on every point

[Deeks]

I see it as this. The 35 or so CFU votes were always his trump card. That cockiness came from the fact that he was always sure he had the votes for Concacaf meetings and FIFA meetings. He was using his collateral very effectual to do his movements. Until the meeting in TT when some members said enough was enough.

We eh hearing a note from the man in reggae land. Capt Burrell in mute mode. In good times you would see him here, there with Jack. But he is a smart one. He knew where to draw the line. Let Jack bray. We eh see Burrel name in that Concacaf report. Well at least, no yet.

[FF]

I see it as this. The 35 or so CFU votes were always his trump card. That cockiness came from the fact that he was always sure he had the votes for Concacaf meetings and FIFA meetings. He was using his collateral very effectual to do his movements. Until the meeting in TT when some members said enough was enough.

We eh hearing a note from the man in reggae land. Capt Burrell in mute mode. In good times you would see him here, there with Jack. But he is a smart one. He knew where to draw the line. Let Jack bray. We eh see Burrel name in that Concacaf report. Well at least, no yet.

Burrell quietly still in the mix. He served a 6 month ban for accepting Bin Hamman's bribe money in Trinidad.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/apr/21/said-and-done-horace-burrell

Comeback of the week

Capt Horace Burrell: head of Jamaica's FA, banned for six months in 2011's Fifa bribery scandal – and named last week as Concacaf's new head of legal and finance. Top of Burrell's list of tasks: monitoring the confederation's "financial management, compliance and integrity".

• Also new for Burrell – a series of other appointments last week as he makes a cautious comeback to the football family: Chair of Concacaf's statutes & regulations committee, chair of their national associations committee, vice-chair of the beach football committee, the club championships committee, the competitions group of committees, the futsal committee, the national events committee, the women's committee, the youth championships committee and the Olympics committee - plus overall Concacaf vice-president, elected unopposed.

So is business as usual in Concacaf.

[Tenorsaw]

I see it as this. The 35 or so CFU votes were always his trump card. That cockiness came from the fact that he was always sure he had the votes for Concacaf meetings and FIFA meetings. He was using his collateral very effectual to do his movements. Until the meeting in TT when some members said enough was enough.

We eh hearing a note from the man in reggae land. Capt Burrell in mute mode. In good times you would see him here, there with Jack. But he is a smart one. He knew where to draw the line. Let Jack bray. We eh see Burrel name in that Concacaf report. Well at least, no yet.

Burrell quietly still in the mix. He served a 6 month ban for accepting Bin Hamman's bribe money in Trinidad.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/apr/21/said-and-done-horace-burrell

Comeback of the week

Capt Horace Burrell: head of Jamaica's FA, banned for six months in 2011's Fifa bribery scandal – and named last week as Concacaf's new head of legal and finance. Top of Burrell's list of tasks: monitoring the confederation's "financial management, compliance and integrity".

• Also new for Burrell – a series of other appointments last week as he makes a cautious comeback to the football family: Chair of Concacaf's statutes & regulations committee, chair of their national associations committee, vice-chair of the beach football committee, the club championships committee, the competitions group of committees, the futsal committee, the national events committee, the women's committee, the youth championships committee and the Olympics committee - plus overall Concacaf vice-president, elected unopposed.

So is business as usual in Concacaf.

This is the problem.  I am surprised that the U.S. and Canada do not take a more active role in Concacaf.  With the exception of that Blazer, they seem to be oblivious to what is going on.  Why does Concacaf continue to recycle these corrupt fellas, I don't know.

[davyjenny1]

Sunil Gulati

[Bakes]

There are whistle blower laws in the US that give some levels of immunity. IRS and FBI doh play

Chuck take in front before in front take him

Where do you people keep coming up with this whistleblower stuff??? (no offense g).  Blazer is  THE target of the FBI IRS investigations, mark my word on that.  Jack Warner is only incidental to that investigation and only because of him converting sums of money into US real estate thru apparently improper channels.  Blazer was hiding money in the Caymans... hence the tax probe/IRS involvement.  You can't be a "whistleblower" under US law when you yourself are a target of the same inquiry.

[Sam]

So Truetrini is de new Whitsle blower !!

 

[Flex]

Chuck Blazer gets provisional ban
May 6, 2013
By Associated Press

ZURICH -- FIFA provisionally banned outgoing executive committee member Chuck Blazer of the United States from all football-related activities for 90 days on Monday after he was accused of embezzling at least $21 million last month.

Blazer had previously said he'll be giving up his seat on FIFA's ruling board when his term expires this month, and was accused of having enriched himself through fraud in a report released in April by CONCACAF, the governing body for North and Central American and Caribbean football. Blazer is a former secretary general of CONCACAF and was accused of embezzling at least $21 million by compensating himself with the body's funds without any authorization. Blazer, the most senior American official at FIFA for 16 years, also allegedly bought some apartments with CONCACAF money. He resigned as CONCACAF's secretary general in December 2011.

FIFA said in a statement Monday that its ethics committee decided to provisionally ban Blazer "based on the fact that various breaches of the FIFA Code of Ethics appear to have been committed by" the American.

Blazer has not commented on the ethics allegations.

The American was the whistle-blower in a bribery scandal involving his former boss at CONCACAF, Jack Warner, who resigned as the body's president in June 2011 after Blazer accused him and then-Asian confederation head Mohamed bin Hammam of attempting to bribe Caribbean delegates $40,000 each to vote for bin Hammam in the FIFA presidential election.

[BBL]

That AP release is irritating. It doesn't tell the story

Reuters 19 April 2013:

The call, from several delegates from the floor of the congress, was backed by CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb who said he would not want to share a platform with Blazer at the FIFA congress.

"You heard the views of the membership in congress. Mr Blazer is still part of the game and he is still elected until May 30 until the new member is installed at the congress," he told reporters.

"In a personal capacity I would take it very hard after receiving this from the Integrity committee to sit there in front of the world, on the world stage with him as a member of the FIFA executive committee in front of congress."

Today he was banned from attending the FIFA Congress on 30 May, no more or no less.  He's leaving the position anyway, there was no need to suspend him - it is FIFA/CONCACAF keeping him away.

[Bakes]

Chuck Blazer gets provisional ban
May 6, 2013
By Associated Press

ZURICH -- FIFA provisionally banned outgoing executive committee member Chuck Blazer of the United States from all football-related activities for 90 days on Monday after he was accused of embezzling at least $21 million last month.

Blazer had previously said he'll be giving up his seat on FIFA's ruling board when his term expires this month, and was accused of having enriched himself through fraud in a report released in April by CONCACAF, the governing body for North and Central American and Caribbean football. Blazer is a former secretary general of CONCACAF and was accused of embezzling at least $21 million by compensating himself with the body's funds without any authorization. Blazer, the most senior American official at FIFA for 16 years, also allegedly bought some apartments with CONCACAF money. He resigned as CONCACAF's secretary general in December 2011.

FIFA said in a statement Monday that its ethics committee decided to provisionally ban Blazer "based on the fact that various breaches of the FIFA Code of Ethics appear to have been committed by" the American.

Blazer has not commented on the ethics allegations.

The American was the whistle-blower in a bribery scandal involving his former boss at CONCACAF, Jack Warner, who resigned as the body's president in June 2011 after Blazer accused him and then-Asian confederation head Mohamed bin Hammam of attempting to bribe Caribbean delegates $40,000 each to vote for bin Hammam in the FIFA presidential election.

Bill Archer was all over Warner... and continues to be so, but don't expect to hear anything from the hypocrite on Santa Chuck.

[Flex]

Warner: FIFA bogey bedevilling TT.
T&T Newsday Reports.

Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner yesterday said he predicted “Chuck Blazer will go the way of everybody else”, responding to FIFA’s ban on the American executive committee member from all soccer-related activities for 90 days after he was accused of embezzling at least US$21 million.

Blazer was the whistle blower in a 2011 bribery scandal involving Warner, his former boss at the Confederation of North, Central America and the Caribbean Football Federations (Concacaf), and then-Asian Football Federation head Mohamed bin Hammam. He accused the two men of attempting to bribe Caribbean delegates with US$40,000 each to vote for bin Hammam in the FIFA presidential election. Warner resigned as Concacaf president and FIFA vice-president during an ethics committee probe of the bribery allegations.

Blazer also subsequently stepped down as Concacaf secretary general.

However, Blazer’s suspension yesterday comes weeks after a Concacaf ethics committee enquiry headed by Bajan jurist Sir David Simmons found that he, along with Warner, were fraudulent in their management of the organisation.

It also follows FIFA’s finding, last week, that former president Joao Havelange, Warner’s mentor in world football, stepped down as honorary president FIFA’s ethics committee said he had accepted bribes in 1996.

Asked to comment on these developments involving Blazer and Havelange, during his walkabout in Endeavour, Chaguanas, yesterday, Warner said, “I have no comment to make on Havelange.”

Nevertheless he said, “I predicted that in the end, people will see exactly what FIFA is, and this FIFA bogey thing that is bedevilling this country shall be exposed. Don’t let me expose it nah, let FIFA expose itself.” He reiterated, “I say again to you that in the fullness of time, FIFA shall expose itself, I would not help FIFA to do that.” Warner resigned as Chaguanas West MP, UNC chairman and National Security Minister in the wake of the Simmons report which raised questions about the ownership of the Centre of Excellence, Macoya, named after Havelange.

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[Socapro]

Warner: FIFA bogey bedevilling TT.
T&T Newsday Reports.

Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner yesterday said he predicted “Chuck Blazer will go the way of everybody else”, responding to FIFA’s ban on the American executive committee member from all soccer-related activities for 90 days after he was accused of embezzling at least US$21 million.

Blazer was the whistle blower in a 2011 bribery scandal involving Warner, his former boss at the Confederation of North, Central America and the Caribbean Football Federations (Concacaf), and then-Asian Football Federation head Mohamed bin Hammam. He accused the two men of attempting to bribe Caribbean delegates with US$40,000 each to vote for bin Hammam in the FIFA presidential election. Warner resigned as Concacaf president and FIFA vice-president during an ethics committee probe of the bribery allegations.

Blazer also subsequently stepped down as Concacaf secretary general.

However, Blazer’s suspension yesterday comes weeks after a Concacaf ethics committee enquiry headed by Bajan jurist Sir David Simmons found that he, along with Warner, were fraudulent in their management of the organisation.

It also follows FIFA’s finding, last week, that former president Joao Havelange, Warner’s mentor in world football, stepped down as honorary president FIFA’s ethics committee said he had accepted bribes in 1996.

Asked to comment on these developments involving Blazer and Havelange, during his walkabout in Endeavour, Chaguanas, yesterday, Warner said, “I have no comment to make on Havelange.”

Nevertheless he said, “I predicted that in the end, people will see exactly what FIFA is, and this FIFA bogey thing that is bedevilling this country shall be exposed. Don’t let me expose it nah, let FIFA expose itself.” He reiterated, “I say again to you that in the fullness of time, FIFA shall expose itself, I would not help FIFA to do that.” Warner resigned as Chaguanas West MP, UNC chairman and National Security Minister in the wake of the Simmons report which raised questions about the ownership of the Centre of Excellence, Macoya, named after Havelange.

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Basically Warner is saying in code that all the top heads in FIFA are just as corrupt and guilty of bribes and stealing money as he is! 

[D.H.W]

Yawn say something new Warner. All the bombshell he dropping turn out duds.

[royal]

Soccer Rat! The inside story of how Chuck Blazer, ex-U.S. soccer executive and FIFA bigwig, became a confidential informant for the FBI

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/soccer/soccer-rat-ex-u-s-soccer-exec-chuck-blazer-fbi-informant-article-1.1995761?utm_content=buffer95c05&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDNSportsTw

[Deeks]

The longest rope has an end.

[dreamer]

   
Chuck Blazer Was Informant Investigating FIFA For FBI
Posted by Phillip Bupp
on Nov 2, 2014
 
http://bloguin.com/32flags/2014/chuck-blazer-was-informant-investigating-fifa-for-fbi.html


The New York Daily News has a very thorough account of how former FIFA Executive Committee and top CONCACAF member, Chuck Blazer, became an informant for the FBI in order to gain information on possible crimes committed by other high members of FIFA. The entire article in the New York Daily News is informative and is a must read. In case you are limited in time and cannot read the entire report, we are here for you to cover the highlights.

Chuck Blazer became an informant due to his own legal issues with the FBI. It was discovered that Blazer didn’t pay taxes for over a decade, didn’t declare any income from 1992-1998 and misappropriated tens of millions of dollars through various illegal methods. CONCACAF also paid for a 49th floor Trump Tower apartment for Blazer’s “unruly cats” and a Hummer to use for travel around New York City. As of now, Blazer is currently suffering from colon cancer.

Qatari businessman and former Asian Confederation President, Mohammed bin Hammam, conspired with former CONCACAF President, Jack Warner, to bribe CONCACAF members with envelopes stuffed with $40k in order to replace Sepp Blatter as FIFA President. Once Blazer found out, covering his own tracks to avoid being banned himself, reported Warner to FIFA’s Ethics Committee. Warner resigned before FIFA could ban him for life, bin Hammam stayed put and was banned for life. Because of this act of betrayal, people close to Blazer believed Warner tipped him off to the FBI.

The FBI wanted Blazer to primarily focus on getting fraud and money laundering evidence from high members within FIFA. When he was in London for the 2012 Summer Olympics, Blazer invited FIFA members and people who were a part of bids from the 2018 and 2022 World Cups for meetings. A small microphone would be attached to a keychain. The FBI also obtained Blazer’s rolodex and targeted a total of 44 soccer executives, including Blatter, for their investigation.

Chuck Blazer is certainly a complex figure in US Soccer. On one hand, he was corrupt, didn’t pay taxes and took money illegally. On the other hand, he was instrumental in the USA getting the 1994 World Cup, the development of Women’s Soccer in this country and the lucrative TV deals for World Cup TV rights. If not for Blazer, US Soccer may not have been as big and powerful as it is right now. Now, as he’s avoiding jail time, he is trying to bring down others who have been corrupt in FIFA. I honestly don’t know if the FBI and Blazer’s work will result in people like Sepp Blatter to be removed from FIFA, but this will be their best shot yet.

In addition, feel free to check out Chuck Blazer’s personal website and blog. Both have a rather strange look to them and it reads as a cross between an informative look into the mind of a soccer executive and the mind of a teenage girl who loves to brag on Facebook about what famous people she has met so far.

[Tallman]

Chuck Blazer, former U.S., CONCACAF official turned FIFA whistleblower, dies at 72
By Chris Chavez (Sports Illustrated)

Chuck Blazer, a former FIFA executive committee member who became an FBI informant, has died at the age 72, his lawyer told the New York Times.

"His misconduct, for which he accepted full responsibility, should not obscure Chuck’s positive impact on international soccer," his lawyer said in a statement to the Times. U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati confirmed Blazer's passing to ESPN FC.

Blazer suffered from colon cancer in the later years of his life. He was handed a lifetime ban from FIFA in July 2015.

Blazer served as a government informant in helping uncover the corruption within the soccer governing body. Blazer was an ally to Jack Warner, the former president of CONCACAF, and became a member of FIFA's executive committee from 1997 to 2013. Blazer was also the CONCACAF general secretary from 1990 to 2011.

His relationship with Warner took a turn in 2011 and he started working with U.S. Federal government officials. Blazer confessed that FIFA executive committee members took bribes from 2004-2011 to helped South Africa land the 2010 World Cup. He also mentioned bribes in the 1998 World Cup bidding process.

Blazer pleaded guilty to charges including racketeering, wire fraud, money laundering and income tax evasion in 2013. In an exposé by the New York Daily News, it was revealed that Blazer had a $18,000 apartment for himself in Trump Tower and a $6,000-a-month adjoining pad for his cats.