B. Collection of Evidence from Warner and Blazer
4.5. The Integrity Committee was able to collect some documents and emails that had
been in the custody of, or were authored by, Jack Warner or Chuck Blazer. However, significant
gaps exist in the evidence that the Committee was able to collect because both Warner and
Blazer were unwilling to cooperate with the investigation.
1. Jack Warner
4.6. In Jack Warner’s case, the Committee collected from the CONCACAF offices in
New York and Miami some documents and emails authored by Warner. Many of these consisted of documents or emails that Warner had sent to others. The Committee did not find many
documents authored by Warner on CONCACAF’s servers because the President’s Office in
Trinidad and Tobago, where Warner primarily worked, had not been networked with the servers
in CONCACAF’s headquarters in New York. Moreover, although a CONCACAF email account
had been assigned to Warner, it does not appear that he often used it. The Committee was
informed by a CONCACAF employee that, when Warner was first granted a network email
address, he stated in substance that he would not use it because he did not want his
communications reviewed by the New York office.71
4.7. It was clear to the Committee that the bulk of any relevant documents that had
been in the custody of, or were authored by, Warner probably resided in Trinidad and Tobago
and would require Warner’s assistance to collect. In fact, so far as the Committee could
determine, Warner had complete control over all of the CONCACAF computers, documents, and
other evidence that existed in Trinidad and Tobago, but he appears to have either destroyed such
evidence or was unwilling to provide it to the Committee.72
4.8. In September 2012, the current CONCACAF General Secretary, Enrique Sanz,
traveled to Trinidad and Tobago to meet with Warner and to discuss a variety of matters. Sanz
reported that, during the meeting, Warner took him to the office in Port of Spain that Warner had
used when he served as the President of CONCACAF.73 Sanz observed that the office was being
cleaned for a new tenant and that document shredding was taking place.74
4.9. The Chairman of the Integrity Committee (the “Chairman”) authorized counsel to
sign a letter on the Chairman’s behalf addressed to Warner, dated January 21, 2013, requesting
documents covering a wide range of topics under investigation. On January 29, 2013, Warner
responded in writing to the effect that, because he had resigned from his position as President of
CONCACAF, he had no documents or records in any form in his possession or otherwise which
would allow him to respond to the matters contained in the Chairman’s letter. On February 12,
2013, the Committee sent Warner a follow-up request for documents and for a meeting with the
Committee, and asked that he respond to the Committee by March 12, 2013. To date, Warner
has not responded to this request.
4.10. The Committee appends to this report, as Appendix A, the correspondence
between the Committee and Warner.
