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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Jun 10, 2015
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• Category : General News
• Description : The Washington Post
  By Cindy Boren June 9 at 9:00 AM
  
  Photo: Former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner addresses the audience during a meeting of his Independent Liberal Party in Marabella, South Trinidad, last week. (Andrea De Silva /Reuters)
• Location : Marabella South Secondary, Marabella, Princes Town, Trinidad and Tobago

Overview

• Jack Warner, the former FIFA vice-president and CONCACAF leader at the heart of a corruption investigation that cost Sepp Blatter his job, is being accused of diverting funds aimed at Haiti earthquake relief into bank accounts he controlled.
  
  Warner, according to U.S. investigators’ documents that were seen by the BBC, allegedly took $750,000 in emergency funds donated by FIFA and the Korean Football Association. The money, which was given for victims of the quake five years ago, went into accounts Warner controlled for his “personal use,” the BBC reports.
  
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