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Wyclef, Wyclef, Let Me In; Please, By the Hair On Your Chinny Chin Chin

written by Sergio Hernandez

Wyclef Jean Gets Shut Out of George Clooney’s Telethon Money

By John Cook

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Of course, Yele Haiti also raised an estimated $1 million a day in the wake of the earthquake directly through text donations, and there are signs that it’s finding ways to spend it: It’s moved its headquarters from a desk in the kitchen in Jean’s Manhattan studio (for which the charity paid $30,000 in annual rent to Jean’s production company) to a 40,000 square-foot floor of New York’s Exxon Building.

The New York Post reported today that Yele is currently in talks to take over the floor, but Gawker intern Sergio Hernandez stopped by today to confirm that it has already moved into the new digs. He was there to ask for the charity’s 2008 tax return, which executive director Hugh Locke told reporters at a press conference last month had been filed with the IRS and which Yele is legally required to produced for inspection to anyone who asks for a copy.

Locke told reporters last month that he’d e-mail the return to anyone who wanted it, but our repeated requests to Yele’s publicist for a copy went unanswered.

So we sent Hernandez to ask for it in person.

They didn’t let him past security. More »