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05 Aug 2010 10:45

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World: Wyclef Jean hands the reins of Yele over to someone better-suited

  • bad Wyclef Jean’s pro-Haiti charity, Yele, has had years of financial issues brought on by questionable payments – bad accounting, money not going to charity, you name it. It’s scarred his reputation a little.
  • good Jean, however, will no longer be running the organization – likely so he can focus on his presidential run.  He’ll hand the reins over to someone  with a better history of working for nonprofits. source

18 Jul 2010 09:18

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Politics: Biden’s presidential campaign nicked: A big #O(&ing deal?

  • $219,000owed over
    violations source

28 Feb 2010 10:46

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Biz: Apple nails foreign contractors for using underage workers

  • 133k number of workers Apple’s contractors, over 102 facilities, use to create their products
  • 17 number of violations it found as a result of its own internal audits of contractors
  • three number of cases it found of contractors purposely hiring underage workers; that’s bad source

05 Jul 2009 10:25

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U.S.: Sarah Palin had lots of ethics complaints, many dismissed, on her back

  • 15 Ethics complaints had been filed against the Alaska governor while she was in office
  • 13 of those complaints were dismissed, and Palin was accused of no wrongdoing source