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When asked if he had ever used Yéle money for personal benefits, Cultural Rhythms 2010 Artist of the Year Wyclef Jean tearfully replied, "absolutely not." Few doubt that Jean, Fugees star and Yéle Haiti Foundation founder, cares about the Haitian people, but many are raising questions about financial decisions made at the Yéle Haiti Foundation that have steered money towards Jean and his associates including, as Gawker reports, his rumored mistress, Zakiya Khatou-Chevassus...
...Smoking Gun, a Web site that posts legal documents online, reported that Jean and his business associates received $410,000 in payments from Yéle Haiti from 2005 to 2007. According to Yéle Haiti's tax returns, the charity paid out $31,200 in rent to Platinum Sound, a recording studio co-owned by Jean; $100,000 for the "musical performance services of Wyclef Jean at a benefit concert;" and $250,000 to Telemax, S.A., "a for-profit Haiti company in which Jean and Duplessis were said to 'own a controlling interest...
...controversy has extended beyond the blogosphere—The Washington Post reported on financial irregularities within Yéle Haiti's organization, quoting a former tax counsel to the Senate Finance Committee, who said, "it seems clear that a significant amount of the money that this charity raises go for costs other than providing benefits to Haitians in need...
...hostess to belittle them - and their own eagerness to backstab fellow participants for their own gain - convinced him that Milgram's findings about the human submission to authority figures were particularly applicable to TV. "Television is a power - we know that, but it remained theoretical," Nick told the daily Le Parisien on Wednesday. "I asked myself, Is it so strong that it can turn us into potential torturers?" (See the 100 best TV shows of all time...
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