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"Wyclef Jean is spending his Saturday responding to critics alleging that his Yele Haiti Foundation has administrative expenses that exceed those of other charities.\n\nThe popular musician's very public efforts to raise funds for the Yele Haiti Foundation have come under scrutiny of late, especially following a piece by The Washington Post that discusses reports made by the Smoking Gun. \nThe Smoking Gun\u00A0released the organization's Internal Revenue Service records and called into question $410,000 the foundation spent on rent, product services and the singer's appearance at benefit concert. The site writes:\n\n\"Internal Revenue Service records show the group has a lackluster history of accounting for its finances, and that the organization has paid the performer and his business partner at least $410,000 for rent, production services, and Jean's appearance at a benefit concert. Though the Wyclef Jean Foundation, which does business as Yele Haiti Foundation, was incorporated 12 years ago\u2014and has been active since that time\u2014the group only first filed tax returns in August 2009.... \n...The recording studio also was paid $100,000 in 2006 for the \"musical performance services of Wyclef Jean at a benefit concert.\"\n\nIn response to these allegations, Jean has posted a video to YouTube to address his critics. In the video embedded below, Jean says that he's just returned from Haiti and that he's always been committed to the people of Haiti. He continues by saying that he's disappointed to come back to an \"attack on my integrity and my foundation.\" He then goes into more detail about why he started the Yele Haiti organization and discusses some of the expenses coming under fire.\nWe'll update you as the story develops.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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