For God’s sake, rule number one: deny, deny, deny.
Wycliff Jean discussed his charity on Oprah yesterday – two million bucks too late: “When you’re starting (a) business, it’s important to have the right people around you. When you’re starting a foundation it’s even more important… It’s important you have logistics on the ground – the helicopters, the trucks; that’s the only way you’re gonna make a difference.So the attack on me, it basically came because, once we started our movement, no one was focused on Yele until they noticed that we were raising $1 million a day after the earthquake. What that did is it rose a lot of eyebrows.”Is there a mistake in running the foundation…? Of course… Have I ever used Yele money for my personal benefits? No… I put money into my foundation.But I do think it was poorly run and I think that we have learned from our mistakes, and, moving forward, I think we’re gonna be stronger than ever.”