This should not be a surprise anymore, since we have been there numerous times, but the Hollywood reporter and the New York Post are reporting about a so-called charity, which, once again, reveals itself to be a bigger sham than we have thought.
Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti Foundation raised about $16 million after the terrible earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2005. However, the 2010 tax records filled by the non-profit organization showed that only $5.1 million went to the relief efforts.
But this is not the only problem:
P&A Construction, a contractor paid by Yele Haiti, received $353,983, and the embarrassing thing is that the company is run by Jean’s brother-in-law.
Amisphere Farm Labor, Inc., a Miami-based business received $1,008,000 as a ‘food distributor’, but the company was nowhere to be found last week, and coincidentally its CEO bought 3 properties in Florida last year.
Samosa SA, a Haiti-based company, was paid $577,185 as a ‘bulk water supplier’, but the money went to rent a house for Yele Haiti volunteers, and it must have been quite a place at $35,000 a month!
This is not the first time the organization has been in trouble, as it has never filled a tax form in 2008, and after the large amount of donations made in 2010, the ex-Fugees was accused of misallocating funds, and left the acting board during the summer of 2010. Despite Wyclef having declared ‘It's a clean slate now’, it is still a real mess