Chuck Blazer Email To Sky News - Bin Hammam Allegations

Chuck Blazer responsed to the allegations made by Mohamed Bin Hammam in an interview with Sky News (regarding payments made to him by the CFU and $9m in commission he has been paid by CONCACAF) in a detailed email to Ian Dovaston of Sky News.
 
You can read that story here:
 http://tinyurl.com/3w7k83s


 
Below are more extracts from that email from Chuck Blazer on bin Hammam and the road to his lifetime ban ...

'Why, for example didn't he take the
offer to address our members at our Congress on May 3rd in Miami?  He
may say it was because he didn't get a visa, but in fact he and Jack had
decided on Trindad & Tobago on April 4th, with a proposed date of April
18th and he only applied on April 6th, he claims, which was days after
the decision to hold it off shore was made?  When we offered assistance,
to obtain his visa in time for the May 3rd meeting in Miami, he turned
it down.  The exchange of Emails I had with Jack Warner on April 1-4
clearly showed that it was always their intention to do the special
congress outside of the United States.
 
Frankly, from my view, I don't know what Blatter had to do with it. If
anything, Blatter felt pretty confident going into election week and the
last thing he needed or wanted was another scandal laid at this door
just on top of the election.  Having been the one who brought the case
to FIFA, I know that it had nothing to do with any political motivation
but was total a matter of reporting ethical violations which would have
changed the entire character of our confederation and the way business
would be conducted in the future.  This I could not allow.  Warner and
Bin Hammam had gone too far.

It is amazing to me that two intelligent men, who were both in
possession of the FIFA Ethics Code, never recognized that what they were
doing was in violation of that code and wrong.  Furthermore, in their
leadership roles, they clearly sent the message to others that what was
happening was "approved"  or "correct" given their advice to the
members.  What a tragedy to have leadership sending their members in
directions so clearly wrong.  They are fully accountable for this and
even today seem to be condoning the inappropriate gifts they feel is a
norm.  Someone needs to adjust their norms.'


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