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FIFA officials arrested for stealing money meant for Haiti earthquake

FIFA officials arrested for stealing money meant for Haiti earthquake

Here are the FIFA officials involved stealing $750,000 meant for Haiti earthquake. Jack Warner, Jeffrey Webb, Alfredo Hawit and Juan Angel Napout.

Jack Warner, a former FIFA Executive Committee member, and President of CONCACAF until his suspension and eventual resignation in 2011, and his successor Jeffrey Webb from Cayman Islands, have been accused of misappropriating money amounting around £500,000 ($750,000) intended to help the 2010 Haiti earthquake victims. Jack Warner is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and businessman. Jack Warner and Jeffrey Webb have committed many and various acts of misconduct repeatedly and have pleaded guilty to seven charges. As per US attorney general Loretta Lynch, their extent of betrayal is truly outrageous. Jeffrey Webb was arrested in last May, but he is out on bail. On May 27th, Jack Warner also surrendered himself to police in his native Trinidad, but after spending a night in custody, was later released on bail. Two more FIFA officials, Alfredo Hawit (Honduras) and Juan Angel Napout (Paraguay), were arrested on December 3, 2015, in a widening bribery case during a pre-dawn raid at the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich on suspicion "of accepting bribes of millions of dollars". This was the second raid in this downtown Zurich hotel after May 27, 2015, that sparked the FIFA corruption crisis.

As per news sources, the US Justice Department has filed charges on bribes and kickbacks against 16 FIFA officials amounting £130 million ($200 million) following an investigation by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI). Danny Jordaan, the Mayor of Port Elizabeth, as well as president of the South African Football Association, once admitted of paying $10 million to a football body led by Jack Warner in 2008 for hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

FIFA has officially confirmed the allegation that Warner, who is presently fighting extradition from Trinidad to the USA, has diverted a fund of $750,000 provided by FIFA and the Korean Football Association intended for victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

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Haitian President Rene Preval And Barack Obama

Haitian President Rene Preval And Barack Obama

Here is a picture of U.S. President Rene preval and U.S. President barack obama together.

Following the Haiti earthquake, President Obama wantd to reassure the Haitian people that the U.S. was totally committed to help Haiti. He pledged to stand by the country as it recovers from the devastating earthquake.

After meeting with the Haitian president Rene Preval, Obama said: The situation on the ground remains dire, That's why, even as the U.S. military responsibly hands off relief functions to our Haitian and international partners, America's commitment to Haiti's recovery and reconstruction must endure and will endure

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The Clinton's accused for wasting Haiti recovery fund

The Clinton's accused for wasting Haiti recovery fund

Six years after the earthquake, a majority of Haiti is still in disrepair. In last March, some Haitians protested outside of the Clinton Foundation in New York. As per their claim 'Clinton Foundation' has stolen ¡°billions of dollars¡± which was meant to help rebuild Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake. In an earlier protest in January, they had alleged that the Foundation wasted money more than $10 billion and awarded contracts to non-Haitian companies where Haiti was used as a cover to receive kickbacks. The activists claimed that Bill Clinton stole that amount of money through the 'Haiti Reconstruction Commission' which was headed by none other than himself and the evidence of these crimes, over 32,000 emails, were deleted by Hillary Clinton from her email account which was connected to a privately-owned server, instead of government email accounts maintained on secured federal servers. A book published in March 2015, was titled as "Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.¡± The book investigates the connections between the Clintons' wealth, the Clinton Foundation, and decisions Hillary Clinton made as the Secretary of State.

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Hillary Clinton, Rene Preval, Kenneth Merten, Jean-Max Bellerive, Cheryl Mills

Hillary Clinton, Rene Preval, Kenneth Merten, Jean-Max Bellerive, Cheryl Mills

Here is a picture of Secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Haitian President Rene Preval, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, US embassador Kenneth Merten and Cheryl Mills, chief of staff to Hillary Clinton, together under a tent following the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010

One, Former President Bill Clinton helped raised millions of dollars for the country. As bothe Bill and Hillary Clinton stated Haiti was the first place they visited after their wedding in 1975.

However, the delivery of the help collected was not very successful. The brother of Hillary Clinton, Tony Rodham, as rumored to ha e been involved in insider deals in Haiti. Other criticised the family for their closeness with President Michel Martelly, whom many think did not do a good job managing the country

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Little Haiti Art Project in memory of victims of Haiti earthquake

Little Haiti Art Project in memory of victims of Haiti earthquake

Miami-Dade county has approved Ayiti land of high mountains project in little Haiti. It is a Art Project in memory of victims of Haiti earthquake.

Miami Foundation has partnered with Health Foundation of South Florida and Baptist Health South Florida to award the best ideas of civic improvement projects for the Our Miami Public Space Challenge.

Ideas for projects include the following: 79th Street Initiative; Collin Worth Parkway; Dejha Carrington Art Project; Empowered Youth, Inc.; Groove Miami; Walking a Poem; Wynwood Greenhouse; Miami Jazz Cooperative; North Miami Community Park; and Miami Mountains Foundation Project.

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Red Cross used Haiti donations to reduce deficit and pay overhead

Red Cross used Haiti donations to reduce deficit and pay overhead

Here is a picture of several Haitians, each awarded a box of goodies from the Red Cross. They were the charity organization to receive the largest amount of donations for relief efforts to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. However the Red Cross used most of the fund to reduce their own accumulated deficits and pay their foreign employees huge salaries.

Red Cross steals Hundreds of Millions from Haiti Earthquake Relief

When Haiti was blown off its foundations by the 2010 earthquake, the international community responded, donating hundreds of millions of dollars. The Red Cross was the biggest donor at half a billion.

Suspicious because only six homes had been built in the last five years by the Red Cross, ProPublica investigated, discovering the agency used $100 million to lower their debts and another one-third of donations to cover their overhead.

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Haiti donated $1 million to earthquake recovery in Nepal

Haiti donated $1 million to earthquake recovery in Nepal

Haiti is making a gesture to show that it doesn't matter how little you have, you can still share with another who is going through difficulties. The government of Haiti has pledged the sum of $1 million to earthquake recovery in Nepal

According to the National Palace sources, Haiti has donated US$ 1 million to the earthquake recovery efforts in Nepal, as a mark of solidarity move from the poorest nation in the western hemisphere. The money has been remitted by President Martelly on Saturday, May 16th. The Presidential spokesperson Lucien Jura has said that the funds were raised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where most of the donations came from the Haitian Diaspora. However, there was no disclosure about the method of remittance or the identity of the recipient whether it is the Nepalese government or any aid group such as the Red Cross or Clinton Global Initiative.

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Training of Haitian masons in earthquake-resistant construction

Training of Haitian masons in earthquake-resistant construction

Here are some Haitian masons receiving training on earthquake-resistant construction

On Wednesday, March 18, 2015, under a UNDP's (United Nations Development Program) earthquake prevention plan, the National Institute for Professional Training (INFP) and the Swiss Cooperation with financial assistance from the Fund for Reconstruction of Haiti (FRH), launched the Phase II Training Program of earthquake-resistant construction for 220 masons from the northern departments of the Northeast and Northwest. The program was initially launched in 2012 and so far a total of 37 engineers, both from public and private sectors and 24 foremen have been trained in earthquake-resistant construction with necessary knowledge on the seismic assessment of buildings so that they can prepare Haiti with safe and sustainable construction to avoid risk of future disasters.

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Protesters outside Clinton Foundation, asking about missing Haiti Recovery fund

Protesters outside Clinton Foundation, asking about missing Haiti Recovery fund

Here is the picture of a group of Haitian protesters gathering outside of the Clinton Foundation office in New York City on the 5th anniversary of the Haiti earthquake to demand explanation for the $10 billion that was collected to help rebuild Haiti

Protestors accuse Clinton Foundation of Misspending Funds for Earthquake Recovery

Some of the Haitian Diaspora amassed in front of the Clinton Foundation offices in Harlem to protest $10 billion in recovery funds was misspent on Haiti's reconstruction. They said the bulk of the money was given to non-Haitian firms. They targeted CF because it spearheaded the recovery efforts.

One protestor asserted earthquake survivors are living in tent cities ". . . while bill Clinton and his cronies . . . waste this money."

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Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Haiti Catastrophe Insurance with Grant

Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Haiti Catastrophe Insurance with Grant

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) ensure that Haiti has
insurance coverage to limit the impact of catastrophic hurricanes and or earthquakes by providing to the Country a 2.57m in 2014

Caribbean Development Bank covers Haiti for Natural Disasters

Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) will pay Haiti's insurance premium to the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) for coverage period June 1, 2014 - May 31, 2015. CCRIF, an insurance fund used to mitigate damages caused by natural disasters, protects Caribbean countries. Funding was provided by Japan with contributions from international donors.

CDB Director Pierre-Louis thanked the CDB Board of Directors for the grant they approved at their meeting in Barbados on October 16, 2014.

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