Gawker and the Smoking Gun report that in 2008 the Harvard honoree used $105,000 of his charity’s money to pay his personal assistant/mistress.

That amounts to roughly one-third of all the money Yele spent that year on management and general expenses.…

The woman, Zakiya Khatou-Chevassu, is listed on Yele Haiti’s website as a “vice-president,” but in fact she was Wyclef Jean’s personal assistant (apparently in more ways than one).

Meaning that he was again using money given to charity for his personal benefit.

Gawker reports:

Jean has a long history of using Yele Haiti’s money for his own commercial gain. In 2005, 2006, and 2007, the foundation paid out a total of $410,000 to commercial entities controlled in whole or in part by Wyclef, including a whopping $250,000 for advertising time on a Haitian television station he co-owns. According to internal financial statements obtained by Gawker in January, Jean didn’t contribute a single dollar to Yele Haiti’s American operation during the year he founded it, and its founding executive director resigned because he “saw hundreds of thousands of dollars going to business needs and nothing going to the charity, when it seemed that part of Wyclef’s new PR strategy focuses on his charitable endeavors.” In 2006, he demanded a $100,000 fee to perform at a Yele Haiti fundraiser designed to raise money for his own hometown. The event was canceled in part because securing Jean’s participation was too expensive.

You will find absolutely no mention of any of this in the Harvard Crimson or any other Harvard publication, website or press release. (Watch here as a clearly enamored Harvard College dean Evelynn Hammonds presents Jean with his award–it comes near the end of the video.)

You know, it’s a weird world when a gossip website has higher ethical standards than Harvard University.