Showing posts with label Susan Kinzie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Susan Kinzie. Show all posts

Saturday, January 16, 2010

FYI: Haiti debacle meets self-promotion: CBS4's Stephen Stock on Wyclef Jean's Foundation's Questionable Spending, Top-heavy with personnel/PR costs

In case you missed it last night on Channel 4's
Eleven o'clock newscast,
Stephen Stock is on
the case!

CBS4, www.wfor.com
Wyclef Jean's Foundation Questionable Spending

Jan 15, 2010 11:12 pm US/Eastern
Stephen Stock
reporting

http://cbs4.com/iteam/Wyclef.Jean.Haiti.2.1430087.html

Video is at: http://cbs4.com/video/?id=89759@wfor.dayport.com

See also: http://cbs4.com/iteam

Today's
Washington Post has this story:

Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti Foundation under fiscal scrutiny

By Susan Kinzie
Washington Post Staff Writer


By Friday morning, just days after the earthquake hit, Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti Foundation had raised more than $1.5 million.

Undoubtedly, Jean's celebrity helped draw in donors: He's an internationally known musician from Haiti who won a Grammy with the Fugees and went on to a hugely successful solo career. But an analysis of the charity's tax returns raises questions about how it has spent money in the past, with administrative expenses that appear to be higher than comparable charities and payments to businesses owned by the musician and a board member, including $100,000 for a performance by Jean at a 2006 benefit concert.


Read the rest of the story at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/15/AR2010011504024.html