WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. Soccer Federation chief executive and secretary general Dan Flynn said Wednesday he had no direct knowledge of bribery or kickbacks exchanged by FIFA officials but experienced moments of “discomfort” during meetings.
Flynn, testifying at a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing, cited methods of votes at meetings of CONCACAF, FIFA’s subsidiary in North and Central America and the Caribbean.
Former CONCACAF presidents Jack Warner and Jeffrey Webb were among the 14 men indicted in late May in the U.S. Justice Department’s ongoing corruption investigation of soccer’s governing body.
“The discomfort was kind of in generalities,” Flynn said. “How (Warner) ran the meeting and went through an agenda and had hand votes first, sealed votes, those were the kinds of discomforts that led me to some sort of discomfort.”
Flynn joined three other panelists in testifying on the governance and integrity of international soccer. The hearing was convened by the Senate subcommittee on consumer protection, product safety, insurance and data security.