Jack Warner says US will not guarantee fair trial

Port of Spain: Fallen Fifa executive Jack Warner, the man at the heart of the corruption scandal engulfing football’s world body, on Tuesday slammed the United States as unable to deliver him a fair trial. Warner, a former school teacher and Trinidadian ex-minister of national security who has been indicted by the US authorities on corruption charges, has denied all the allegations against him.
The United States wants Trinidad to extradite Warner.

Warner said in an editorial in his weekly Sunshine due out Friday, that the United States is not the “appropriate jurisdiction” to handle the matter “fairly.” He argued that the United States is trying to exact revenge because it tried but failed to lobby Fifa to host the 2022 World Cup. “One must be extremely careful to question whether the United States can be fair in taking action against officials of an international body whom it feels has done it wrong,” he wrote in the editorial. “In spite of what the US wishes to purport, had they won that bid, the current legal acrimony which is currently taking place would never have been heard of.”