Wyclef: I Never Pocketed Money from My Charity

Oct 18, 2012 | 4:25 PM Written By: Jessica T

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Wyclef: I Never Pocketed Money from My Charity

Wyclef Jean's "Yele Haiti" foundation went out of business last month, with The New York Times reporting that out of the $3 million spent from 2005-2009, $256,580 was used for illegal benefits and improper transactions. This included private air transportation and chauffeur services, which Wyclef addressed during an interview with MTV.

"When you start an organization, there are gonna be mistakes, but the mistakes were never us banking money in our pockets to get rich on behalf of our people. When those kind of mistakes are made within governance, you bring in new accountants, new governance, and that's what we did."

Wyclef also claimed that the truth will eventually come out.

. "When history tells its tale to define the truth ... one thing about history, as history goes it will protect me," he said. "So there's one thing that you might feel now, but 70 years from now, a hundred years from now, when you're not around, facts come out. So history will always be on my side because the truth eventually ends up coming out."

Source: rapfix.mtv.com

Previous Comments

insom 10/19/2012 12:15 am

I don't know if he took that money, all I know is what I would have done and... I would have took that money man

He`s trash 10/19/2012 12:00 am

He paid is girlfriend out of that fun and it is supposed to be a non profit! He`s a crook and screwed his own people, but that whole country is sorry anyway. They don`t wanna improve its easier to have the rest of the world pay your way.

Get a job 10/18/2012 11:56 pm

Yeah sure he didn`t, it wouldn`t matter anyway these people have been given well over a Billion dollars for relief and rebuilding over the recent few years and done shit with it.Been charity flowing thier way for a few decades now and look at what they have done with it......nothing but sqauler

WOLFCRY757 10/18/2012 8:44 pm

Yooooo Wyclef thanks for buying me and my homies the new bently coupe with that stolen yele haiti money hahaha we still taking more donation @suckersstilldonatingmoneyforyelehaiti.gov

GetGwapEnt 10/18/2012 7:41 pm

He didn't pocket any money but spent it recklessly.

..... 10/18/2012 6:59 pm

I think people from all charities pocket some of the charity money. So why are they so focused on Wyclef's Charity... Is it because he's black?, because he's a rapper?... Or Both?.

Bad karma REPLIED 10/18/2012 9:23 pm

thats true and sad. He used his own ppl when they needed him most! He became their Antichrist. Their was a crisis going on and he saw the opportunity to be a wolf in Sheeps clothing and sent his ppl to be slaughterd!!! Thats why they tried to kill his black ass...glad I'm not black or haitan. Very dissapointing-

intelligenceisnt4u REPLIED 10/18/2012 7:25 pm

Serious? Best you can do is play the race card? Not every charity does that, just predators, listen to the BLACK HATIANS he used his people and country to benefit himself. Suicide is your best option scrub.

Bad karma 10/18/2012 5:53 pm

Then whyd they try and kill and shoot ur ass in Africa?and everyone in Africa was talking nothing but bad shit about you!!! He ripped off all his artist (thats why their all dead broke and on drugs n alcohol) and he wanted to rip off Africans. This bich stay schemin

i say what everyone else doesnt say 10/18/2012 5:39 pm

Haitians hate on each other instead of loving one another hate to see sum1 succeed cause they want to be in they're shoes aren't generous to one another and don't have mutual respect if a persons poor or rich and that's why the countries so messed up

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