Exclusive: Madonna's Malawi Charity Not Under Investigation

By Rob Shuter Posted Apr 5th 2011 03:10PM

Despite recent reports that Madonna's charity, Raising Malawi, is under investigation by the authorities, her rep tells PopEater exclusively that this isn't the case.

The non-profit, co-founded in 2006 by the Material Girl and partner Michael Berg, aims to promote sustainability and provide valuable resources to the 2 million orphans in the African country.

While sources have reported that construction on a school being built by the organization has been halted while Raising Malawi is being investigated for mismanagement of funds, nothing could be further from the truth.

"In recent days a number of wild and totally false rumors about Madonna's philanthropy -- spread by bloggers and tabloids -- have begun appearing on the Internet. As we have said previously, Raising Malawi is currently undergoing a series of positive changes in an effort to serve more children," Madonna's rep tells PopEater.

"Neither Madonna nor Raising Malawi is being investigated by the FBI or the IRS. It is unfortunate that people have chosen to say things about Raising Malawi and Madonna that are not true. Madonna remains committed and focused on what matters: helping the children of Malawi."

In October, the singer-actress flew out to Malawi, where her children David and Mercy where born, to visit the Raising Malawi School for Girls.

The singer said of her passion for the project, "Research proves that young girls throughout the developing world are often left without opportunities to receive a comprehensive education and the benefits that education can provide. Our goal is to teach them to challenge themselves, serve their local communities and develop their country."

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Tuesday 05 April

By thunderbeat

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They are so eager to spread lies and negativity and the sad part is that none of these bloggers and newspapers will publish the fact that all these rumors are false....I live in Africa and I can see the changes happening because of this charity.....they should be ashamed.

Saturday 09 April

By jameson sanderson

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Madonna is being investigated because people have been subpoenad to appear before the grand jury. Her friends the Bergs of fake Kabbalah fame have been outed as thieves. They raised 18million dollars and only sent US850,000. The school was only going to cost US10million to build, why did these fake thugs not build the school? They tried to pin their outlandish spending on their employees in Malawi. How could the Malawi employees mismanage money they never received? 3million dollars of the money for the school was spent in Los Angeles. Madonna and the Bergs never sent money to Malawi. Now they are lying that they are not being investigated, they are being investigated, the employees are suing Madonna. Madonna just hired a high level expensive lawyer to fight her employees. She would rather not pay them. She kept 17.5million of the money raised on the website and from friends she did not use her own money.

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