Yele Haiti, Wyclef Jean’s troubled
charity, will get just $1 million,
or 2.8%, of the more than $35
million raised so far by the Hope
for Haiti Telethon that Jean co-
hosted. As perhaps the most famous
Haitian alive, Jean quickly became
the human face of the earthquake
last month, and he parlayed that
celebrity into millions of dollars
in text donations to his personal
charity, despite persistent reports
that Yele Haiti is too poorly run
to help and that Jean has a history
of using it to divert charitable
dollars to his business interests.
