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Jennings: FIFA wants to get rid of Jack
Kern De Freitas
Sunday, May 2nd 2010
Jack Warner’s family and their ’money-making activities’ has brought ’shame and embarrassment’ to the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA), who want to get rid of them, British investigative journalist Andrew Jennings has claimed.
’They want rid of him, his sons, his entourage and their perpetual scandals which increasingly irritate the global brands that fund world football,’ Jennings said in a letter to the Sunday Express yesterday.
Jennings’s letter is in response to Jack Warner’s claims on a United National Congress (UNC) platform in La Horquetta on Friday night that Jennings was in league with the People’s National Movement (PNM) to discredit him (Warner). The Brit described Warner’s assertions as ’some imaginary conspiracy’.
During the La Horquetta meeting, the FIFA vice-president produced what he claimed to be e-mail evidence of a PNM plot to smear him.
Warner alleged that those communications were between Washington-based communications firm Sanitas International and locally-based advertising firm Valdez & Torry-PNM’s marketing representatives-detailing arrangements to have Jennings fly to Trinidad after the eighth annual Offshore Alert Financial Due Diligence Conference, which gets underway today at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in South Beach, Florida, USA.
Fifa vice president: Jack Warner
Jennings had previously denied he ever intended to visit this country in the near future.
Jennings is also ’fed up’ of the ’innuendo that is being published about me’, and has stated that ’I don’t care who wins the (Trinidad and Tobago) election’.
He also felt FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s alleged ’covert campaign to evict Jack Warner from FIFA’ by drawing more attention to the Financial Due Diligence Conference is getting under Warner’s skin.
Jennings is set to address the conference on Tuesday, with Warner’s alleged role in financial corruption in FIFA likely to be his main topic.
Jennings’s offering, entitled: Corruption in Soccer-The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote-Rigging and Ticket Scandals, is one of 28 presentations for the May 2-4 conference.
The veteran investigative reporter felt Warner is worried about his audience in Miami, including ’US government investigators and prosecutors’.
Jennings has also accused the Warner family of ’endless racketeering in World Cup tickets’, dating back to the infamous 1989 World Cup qualifying match between Trinidad and Tobago and the USA to the present, adding that FIFA levied ’a US$1 million fine on (Warner’s son) Daryan Warner for the family’s profiteering in Germany in 2006, as yet unpaid, (which) continues to bring FIFA into discredit’.
In addition, Jennings has also refuted Warner’s claims that he is in league with the PNM. He said he had met several UNC officials, one of whom even welcomed Jennings to his home.
Jennings said the only PNM member he has met was Keith Rowley, for just five minutes in 2001.
’Mr Warner will doubtless continue baying to the moon about me being ’one of the most discredited journalists in Christendom’. Does that mean I’m OK with Hindus, Muslims and all other faiths?’ Jennings asked.
And he vehemently denied any involvement in T&T politics.
’I have neither offered myself nor will accept any involvement in the politics of T&T. But I will report on all and any rogue where I have documentary evidence.’
Kern De Freitas
Sunday, May 2nd 2010
Jack Warner’s family and their ’money-making activities’ has brought ’shame and embarrassment’ to the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA), who want to get rid of them, British investigative journalist Andrew Jennings has claimed.
’They want rid of him, his sons, his entourage and their perpetual scandals which increasingly irritate the global brands that fund world football,’ Jennings said in a letter to the Sunday Express yesterday.
Jennings’s letter is in response to Jack Warner’s claims on a United National Congress (UNC) platform in La Horquetta on Friday night that Jennings was in league with the People’s National Movement (PNM) to discredit him (Warner). The Brit described Warner’s assertions as ’some imaginary conspiracy’.
During the La Horquetta meeting, the FIFA vice-president produced what he claimed to be e-mail evidence of a PNM plot to smear him.
Warner alleged that those communications were between Washington-based communications firm Sanitas International and locally-based advertising firm Valdez & Torry-PNM’s marketing representatives-detailing arrangements to have Jennings fly to Trinidad after the eighth annual Offshore Alert Financial Due Diligence Conference, which gets underway today at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in South Beach, Florida, USA.
Fifa vice president: Jack Warner
Jennings had previously denied he ever intended to visit this country in the near future.
Jennings is also ’fed up’ of the ’innuendo that is being published about me’, and has stated that ’I don’t care who wins the (Trinidad and Tobago) election’.
He also felt FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s alleged ’covert campaign to evict Jack Warner from FIFA’ by drawing more attention to the Financial Due Diligence Conference is getting under Warner’s skin.
Jennings is set to address the conference on Tuesday, with Warner’s alleged role in financial corruption in FIFA likely to be his main topic.
Jennings’s offering, entitled: Corruption in Soccer-The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote-Rigging and Ticket Scandals, is one of 28 presentations for the May 2-4 conference.
The veteran investigative reporter felt Warner is worried about his audience in Miami, including ’US government investigators and prosecutors’.
Jennings has also accused the Warner family of ’endless racketeering in World Cup tickets’, dating back to the infamous 1989 World Cup qualifying match between Trinidad and Tobago and the USA to the present, adding that FIFA levied ’a US$1 million fine on (Warner’s son) Daryan Warner for the family’s profiteering in Germany in 2006, as yet unpaid, (which) continues to bring FIFA into discredit’.
In addition, Jennings has also refuted Warner’s claims that he is in league with the PNM. He said he had met several UNC officials, one of whom even welcomed Jennings to his home.
Jennings said the only PNM member he has met was Keith Rowley, for just five minutes in 2001.
’Mr Warner will doubtless continue baying to the moon about me being ’one of the most discredited journalists in Christendom’. Does that mean I’m OK with Hindus, Muslims and all other faiths?’ Jennings asked.
And he vehemently denied any involvement in T&T politics.
’I have neither offered myself nor will accept any involvement in the politics of T&T. But I will report on all and any rogue where I have documentary evidence.’
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