Con­ca­caf gen­er­al sec­re­tary Chuck Blaz­er has de­nied he is be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed by the Fed­er­al Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion (FBI).The Amer­i­can foot­ball of­fi­cial, best known as the whis­tle-blow­er whose bribery al­le­ga­tions led to the res­ig­na­tion of FI­FA vice pres­i­dent Jack Warn­er and the life­time ban of an­oth­er vice pres­i­dent, Mo­hamed Bin Ham­mam, de­nied the probe in an e-mail ex­change with Britain's Sky News.When asked di­rect­ly by a Sky News re­porter if he de­nied be­ing un­der FBI in­ves­ti­ga­tion, Blaz­er replied: "Yes."The rev­e­la­tion of an FBI probe of Blaz­er was first made by in­ves­tiga­tive re­porter An­drew Jen­nings who re­leased a de­tailed re­port on Sat­ur­day with a long list of ac­cu­sa­tions against Blaz­er and his lav­ish lifestyle.Jen­nings re­port­ed, among oth­er things, Blaz­er re­ceived (and re­paid) a pay­ment of US$250,000 from the Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU) which was con­trolled by Warn­er.That was in ad­di­tion to large pay­ments to Blaz­er in Sep­tem­ber 2010, it was re­port­ed.How­ev­er, Blaz­er dis­missed the re­port and de­scribed Jen­nings as "an un­re­li­able blog­ger who doesn't care much for ac­cu­ra­cy or the facts."Re­spond­ing di­rect­ly to that al­le­ga­tion, he said: "In the in­stance of the men­tioned US$250,000 pay­ment, Mr Warn­er owed me the pay­ment of a loan for over five years in the amount re­mit­ted.He added: "I was dis­mayed when he sent it with his ac­coun­tant drawn on the CFU ac­count, but was told by the ac­coun­tant not to wor­ry, it would be prop­er­ly re­flect­ed to show it was his mon­ey."Since then, Jack has re­signed but has not turned over the check­ing ac­counts of the CFU to its ex­ec­u­tive com­mit­tee and sec­re­tari­at."I have had to bail them out by pro­vid­ing of­fices to them in our Mi­a­mi Con­ca­caf of­fices to op­er­ate the re­gion's com­pe­ti­tions.

"Once he has turned over the ac­counts, we will be able to de­ter­mine, whether as de­scribed by the ac­coun­tant, the funds were Jack's or if they were not."Blaz­er said if it was con­firmed that the funds "were not prop­er­ly Jack's", he would re­turn it to the CFU.Blaz­er fur­ther claimed Warn­er was thwart­ing the progress of the CFU by not giv­ing it ac­cess to its ac­counts and lock­ing CFU staff out of the of­fice, while pro­vid­ing space for four ac­count­ing per­son­nel paid by Con­ca­caf and now ex­posed as work­ing for the WGOC (Warn­er Group of Com­pa­nies).He said: "We are send­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tors in­to Trinidad to get the in­for­ma­tion from the banks and to pro­tect our as­sets."Mr Jen­nings should be more as­tute about where his sto­ries come from and what their ob­jec­tives are. Ours is to clean up the mess that sur­round­ed Jack Warn­er in Port-of-Spain."Jen­nings re­port­ed the FBI was in­ves­ti­gat­ing Blaz­er's bank ac­counts for some very sus­pi­cious pay­ments and for fail­ure to re­port in­come.

He fur­ther re­port­ed that:

Blaz­er al­leged­ly held a re­treat in his US$3 mil­lion apart­ment at the Reef At­lantis Par­adise Is­land re­sort last month for Caribbean of­fi­cials sym­pa­thet­ic to him. He al­leged­ly owns the re­sort prop­er­ty which is paid for through a se­ries of com­pa­nies con­nect­ed to a Nas­sau bank where he sup­pos­ed­ly has an ac­count;

He re­ceives hefty com­mis­sions from re­gion­al sports mar­ket­ing com­pa­nies with con­nec­tions to Warn­er, in­clud­ing mak­ing $2 mil­lion al­leged­ly off one such con­tract;

Two of his chil­dren have worked for him, in­clud­ing his son who cur­rent­ly works as Con­ca­caf's chief med­ical of­fi­cer, which pays US$7,000 a month; and

In­clud­ing an apart­ment above Con­ca­caf's of­fices in Trump Tow­ers, Blaz­er has prop­er­ty in North Car­oli­na (farm­house) and Mi­a­mi (wa­ter­front apart­ment).

Blaz­er has been at the cen­tre of a rag­ing FI­FA con­tro­ver­sy for sev­er­al months, most­ly as an ac­cuser.For­mer Con­ca­caf vice pres­i­dent Lisle Austin, of Bar­ba­dos, who was re­cent­ly sus­pend­ed by FI­FA from all soc­cer ac­tiv­i­ties for a year, said re­cent­ly in an in­ter­view:

"I have re­peat­ed­ly asked for an in­de­pen­dent foren­sic au­dit of Con­ca­caf's fi­nances, but to no avail. My strug­gle is to bring trans­paren­cy and democ­ra­cy to re­gion­al foot­ball, and in­deed FI­FA."Blaz­er said he would con­tin­ue to "ful­ly re­spond to FI­FA, Con­ca­caf and their re­spec­tive stake­hold­ers."

Com­ment­ing on the FBI probe of Blaz­er, Warn­er said re­cent­ly:

"This is the tip of the ice­berg. In the full­ness of time much more will be re­vealed. The avalanche is yet to come."