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Former Penn State Coach Jerry Sandusky Finally Speaks On Sex Scandal!

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Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky who is charged with 40 criminal counts of sexual abuse on minors is finally speaking about charges that he was seen on several occasions taking showers in the Penn State locker room with boys as young as 10. back in 2004. On one occasion a witness says he even saw him pressing a child up against the wall and raping him.  Jerry who founded a group foster home for boys in 1977 called The Second Mile where all the alleged victims were selected, says he was taking showers with boys but he is no pedophile.

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Clark Kent Talks Jay-Z’s “Reasonable Doubt” Era & His Epic Sneaker Collection!

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Ron Artest Gives Away His NBA Championship Ring For Charity!

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Halle Berry Fights Against Domestic Abuse!

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Is Wyclef “Yele” Charity Organization Short Changing The Haitian People?!?

JANUARY 14–The Haiti earthquake has already triggered hundreds of thousands of donations to musician Wyclef Jean’s charitable foundation, which expects to raise upwards of $1 million a day in the disaster’s wake. However, Internal Revenue Service records show the group has a lackluster history of accounting for its finances, and that the organization has paid the performer and his business partner at least $410,000 for rent, production services, and Jean’s appearance at a benefit concert. Though the Wyclef Jean Foundation, which does business as Yele Haiti Foundation, was incorporated 12 years ago–and has been active since that time–the group only first filed tax returns in August 2009. That month, the foundation provided the IRS with returns covering calendar years 2005, 2006, and 2007–the only periods for which it has publicly provided a glimpse at its financial affairs. In 2006, Jean’s charity reported contributions of $1 million, the bulk of which came from People magazine in exchange for the first photos of a pregnant Angelina Jolie (the actress reportedly directed that the publication’s payment go to Jean’s charity, not her personally). As seen on the following pages from the foundation’s 2006 tax return, the group paid $31,200 in rent to Platinum Sound, a Manhattan recording studio owned by Jean and Jerry Duplessis, who, like Jean, is a foundation board member. A $31,200 rent payment was also made in 2007 to Platinum Sound. The rent, tax returns assure, “is priced below market value.” The recording studio also was paid $100,000 in 2006 for the “musical performance services of Wyclef Jean at a benefit concert.” That six-figure payout, the tax return noted, “was substantially less than market value.” The return, of course, does not address why Jean needed to be paid to perform at his own charity’s fundraiser. But the largest 2006 payout–a whopping $250,000–went to Telemax, S.A., a for-profit Haiti company in which Jean and Duplessis were said to “own a controlling interest.” The money covered “pre-purchased…TV airtime and production services” that were part of the foundation’s “outreach efforts” in Haiti. No further description of these services was offered, though the return claimed that “the fees paid are below market” and that the use of Telemax was the “most efficient way of providing these services.” The group’s tax returns also report “consultant” payments totaling $300,000 between 2005-2007, while the 2006 return reported nearly $225,000 in “promotion and PR” costs. These expenses are not itemized further in the IRS returns.

Click here to take a look at the tax records and more of what money has been spent on.

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Kim Kardashian Gets Knocked Out for Charity

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Kim Kardashian offered herself as a punching bag for charity.The reality TV starlet participated in a boxing event that benefits The Dream Foundation at the Commerce Casino in Commerce, California.Kardashian took several punches to the face and eventually lost the fight. She’s even sporting a day-after black eye from the dust-up.

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Tila Tequila Flashes Her Boobs For Charity…

Tila recently hooked up with the Keep A Breast Foundation – http://www.keep-a-breast.org – to have her breasts cast in plaster for auction! Her mold will be painted and auctioned off at the Playboy mansion with all proceeds going to the Keep A Breast Foundation and breast cancer research!

See a new photo DAILY from the event (shot by Kristen Burns) at http://www.tilashotspot.com!

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