Wyclef Jean Haitian Non Relief

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Daniel Frankel, Yahoo! News
Submitted by: Kevin J. Ziruolo

Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti charity which pledged funds to aid earthquake relief efforts in his home country has been found to have donated less than a third of it's donations to the Haitian earthquake relief effort.

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Less than a third of the $16 million gathered in 2010 by hip-hop star Wyclef Jean for earthquake relief in Haiti actually made it to emergency efforts in the country, theNew York Post reported on Sunday.

According to the exclusive report, Jean's charity, Yele Haiti, doled out millions in questionable contracts

During a press conference in January of 2010, Wyclef shed tears defending his charity against earlier charges of improper use of funds. Seems he didn't learn much from that first experience.

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