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muriel_volestrangler

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Sun Jun 7, 2015, 05:39 AM Jun 2015

Fifa corruption: Documents show details of Jack Warner 'bribes'

A BBC investigation has seen evidence that details what happened to the $10m sent from Fifa to accounts controlled by former vice-president Jack Warner.

The money, sent on behalf of South Africa, was meant to be used for its Caribbean diaspora legacy programme.
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JTA Supermarkets, a large chain in Trinidad, received $4,860,000 from the accounts.
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Nearly $1.6m was used to pay the former Fifa vice-president's credit cards and personal loans.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-33039014
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Fifa corruption: Documents show details of Jack Warner 'bribes' (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jun 2015 OP
How could this man suck up all that money meant for his desperately poor countrymen? SunSeeker Jun 2015 #1

SunSeeker

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1. How could this man suck up all that money meant for his desperately poor countrymen?
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 07:35 AM
Jun 2015

I just don't understand scumbags like this. These are his own people he screwed. That money was meant for building soccer fields and buying equipment for kids. Why wouldn't he want to help his own countrymen? Why did he have to take ALL 10 million? Couldn't he have spared just a tenth of it--1 million--for the kids?

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