Former Trinidad and Tobago football boss Jack Warner got a temporary reprieve today from a bid by US authorities to try him for alleged involvement in the FIFA corruption scandal, as his extradition hearing was adjourned until February 19th, 2016.
Lawyers for both sides agreed to push the case back after Warner’s legal team last week filed an application to the Trinidad and Tobago High Court for a judicial review of the extradition process.
A judge will begin hearing that request on Friday. It is a separate case from the extradition hearing, which is being held in a magistrate’s court.
Warner, a former member of the island nation’s parliament, is wanted in the US to face 29 charges of bribery and racketeering stemming from an FBI investigation into allegations of massive corruption at FIFA.
