Wyclef Jean's Haiti Charity Made Dubious Payments: Smoking Gun
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The effort is heroic. The Smoking Gun, however, adds a sour note: They examine Yele Haiti's tax forms for 2005 through 2007, which the organization only filed last year, and find that the non-profit paid thousands of dollars to a studio co-owned by Jean and Jerry Duplessis, one of Yele Haiti's board members. Jean and Duplessis are also said to have a "controlling interest" in Telemax, S.A., to which Yele Haiti paid a quarter of a million dollars for "TV airtime and production services."
Yele Haiti has received large donations and grants in the past from Angelina Jolie, the Hollywood Foreign Press, telecommunications company ComCEL/Voila, and others. Image via Wikipedia.
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