The forensic audit examined $3 million of the charity's 2005 to 2009 expenses and found $256,580 in illegitimate benefits to Mr. Jean and other Yéle board and staff members as well as improper or potentially improper transactions.
After examining the charity's 2005 to 2009 expenses, The New York Times found that Yele had spent $256,580 on illegitimate benefits and improper or potentially improper transactions.
The same charity that Wyclef Jean raised $1 million for within days of the devastating Haiti earthquake has shuttered –- leaving behind a trail of debt, questions about illegitimate benefits and fuming beneficiaries.
"The government has to demonstrate that it will not let an illegitimate organization benefit from illegitimate support," said Michael Gold-Biss, a Colombian-born expert on the country at St . Cloud State Universityin Minnesota.
If the contribution of supporting services to generation of direct human benefits were evaluated and added to the direct value, there would be illegitimate double-counting of benefit.
If the purpose of the unlawful act is to benefit the perpetrator, then the act will be prima facie illegitimate and unjustified.
In public discussions of tax reform, commentators and politicians tend to blithely assume that all tax expenditures are equivalent to tax loopholes – illegitimate provisions of the tax code that benefit only special interests.
For Founding-era jurists, taking property from A and giving it to B for B's own benefit was a paradigmatic example of illegitimate government conduct that did not merit the name of "law".
Ten years later, Yellen and Akerlof challenged the notion that generous welfare benefits were responsible for a surge in illegitimate births, especially in the minority population.
Thus, all children are illegitimate; spouses have no inheritance rights; and heirs cannot receive death benefits.
[5] Mr. Kristof implies that there must be something "illegitimate" about a disability program for children where the majority receiving benefits have mental disorders.
