EMBEZZLEMENT??? WYCLEF PAID HIS JUMPOFF $100K . . . WITH MONEY FROM HIS CHARITY YELE HAITI!!! (PICS OF THE JUMPOFF INSIDE)
MediaTakeOut.com just learned of some STUNNING news. Money donated to Wyclef's charity Yele Haiti was reportedly going to support his JUMPOFF and not the people of Haiti.
Our good friends over at Gawker and The Smoking Gun have been doing some research on Wyclef's charity, Yele Haiti. And according to them, Wyclef was using the charity's money to pay one of his jumpoffs named Zakia Khatou-Chevassus more than a hundred thousand dollars.
Here's an excerpt from a report on Gawker's website:
[Yele Haiti] paid Khatou-Chevassus $105,000 as an independent contractor in 2008 for "program development." That amounts to roughly one-third of all the money Yele spent that year on management and general expenses.
So what did she do for that money? Khatou-Chevassus is currently listed on Yele's web site as the organization's vice president. But according to five sources familiar with Yele's operations, in 2008 she served as Jean's personal assistant -working on his commercial endeavors as well as his charitable ones- and was involved romantically with the former Fugees star.
"She worked for Wyclef on all Wyclef matters," says one source who has worked with Jean in the past. "She did whatever Wyclef needed that day, whether it was related to Yele or not. She would do things like book flights, and she wasn't very good at it. It's a shame that she made that much money." The source said Khatou-Chevassus' salary amounted to more than three times what Suzie Sylvain, Yele Haiti's dedicated program director who is credited by many Yele Haiti insiders with actually keeping the organization running, was paid.
"Everyone knows they were in a relationship," says another source familiar with Yele Haiti. "A dozen people, including me, saw and knew. It wasn't a secret."
We think that this dude needs to be investigated. Cause we texted him and his charity a whole lotta money already . . . And that money was supposed to be going to Haiti . . . not to his jumpoffs