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letsdothis3 ago

NEW YORK - JUNE 09: HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex with artist Peter Max and his wife Mary at the Carte International's lunch reception for HRH Prince Edward Earl of Wessex at the Steven Weiss Studio on June 9, 2009 in New York City. https://imgur.com/a/DBPqf2x

At the same event - Carte Blanche International CEO Zakiya Khatou-Chevassus, Prince Edward, artist Peter Max and his wife Mary Max https://imgur.com/a/ruq2Zya

Wyclef Jean Paid His Mistress $105,000 Through His Haiti Charity

Yele Haiti, the sketchy foundation that Wyclef Jean founded to help the Haitian people—which received millions in the outpouring of generosity following the wake of the earthquake there—paid Jean's mistress and personal assistant $105,000 in 2008.

That's Zakiya Khatou-Chevassus on the right in the photo above. According to Yele Haiti's 2008 tax return, which was posted this week by the Smoking Gun, the charity 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.

..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.

..As the Smoking Gun noted, Khatou-Chevassus seems to have done some modeling in the past. The photo on the right above was taken at a 2009 reception she organized in New York for Prince Edward's International Award Association. (Captions from photographs taken at the event that we found online identify her as the CEO of Carte Blanche International, but we're almost certain that's an error. All of the people we spoke to who know Khatou-Chevassus say it's preposterous that she'd be a credit card executive; we've called Carte Blanche to ask.)

A call to Khatou-Chevassus and an e-mail to Yele Haiti's publicist were not immediately returned.

letsdothis3 ago

Okay, this is getting crazy.. about Carte Blanche International event host David Hryck Esq.

Reed Smith Expands Tax and Corporate Practices with Five Member Dentons Team

Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of a high-level team of three partners, one counsel and one economist from Dentons with a premier reputation in international tax and transfer pricing. The group is led by partner David Hryck, formerly U.S. Head of International Tax at Dentons, and includes partners Jeffrey Korenblatt and David Mason.

Voat posts re Dentons:

Another Highly Suspicious Hollywood Death >> Suzanne Patmore Gibbs, Executive VP of SONY TRISTAR TV -- 50 Years Young / 'Complications from MINOR Surgery'

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2474765/12341836 Elliott I. Portnoy (born November 1, 1965) is an American attorney and the Global chief executive officer of Dentons—a law firm that launched March 28, 2013 with the combination of US/UKMEA firm SNR Denton, Canada's Fraser Milner Casgrain and Europe's Salans, and is now the largest law firm in the world...In 1988 while studying at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, Portnoy founded the organization Kids Enjoy Exercise Now (KEEN) with his wife, Estee Portnoy, and expanded it to Washington, D.C., in 1992. KEEN is a nonprofit organization that provides sports opportunities to children with severe and profound disabilities.

Dentons Law Firm Chairman Peng Xuefeng + Chief Executive Elliott Portnoy + Brandon Ransley Organised Crime Fraud Bribery “Forensics Files” * CPS “Criminal Prosecution Files” *** QUEEN’S SOLICITORS FARRER & CO PARTNER JULIAN PIKE ...

Scotland Yard leaked sources have said that the Dentons law firm “sponsored” UK Companies House “registered” Urban Finance Ltd group structures were effectively utilised as a diversionary corporate smokescreen for the embezzlement of two hundred million dollars of Gerald Carroll’s huge treasury investment holdings which were held at the Queen’s bankers Coutts & Co and Barclays Bank City of London branches.

The Carroll Foundation Trust files are held within a complete lockdown at the FBI Washington DC field office and the Metropolitan Police Scotland Yard London under the supervision of the Commissioner Cressida Dick QPM who is known to have an intimate knowledge of this case which stretches the globe over a staggering sixteen years.