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  • Woman gets prison time after her GoFundMe duped donors out of $400,000

    07/25/2022 1:58:12 PM PDT · by NohSpinZone · 31 replies
    SF Gate via Washington Post ^ | 7/25/2022 | By María Luisa Paúl
    Katelyn McClure's story about a down-on-his-luck hero who'd spent his last $20 to help a stranger inspired thousands to contribute to a GoFundMe campaign that soon topped $400,000. Her claim that she'd run out of gas on Interstate 95, where the homeless veteran came to her rescue, went viral in 2017. But after all the media frenzy, it turned out to be mostly bogus - and a huge chunk of the funds raised had been used on a luxury car, clothes, vacations and trips to casinos, federal prosecutors said. Now, McClure has been sentenced for her role in the three-person...
  • Homeless again, Johnny Bobbitt can’t get his GoFundMe money

    08/26/2018 4:25:19 PM PDT · by NohSpinZone · 54 replies
    Philly.com ^ | 8/242/18 | By Barbara Boyer
    Johnny Bobbitt, famously rescued from the streets of Philadelphia last October after word of his kindness to a stranger went viral and led to a $400,000 GoFundMe campaign, is once again homeless, drug-addicted — and panhandling for money. The couple who started the fund-raiser say that in helping Bobbitt, they've spent or given him more than half of the money donated by thousands of people around the world and they are withholding the roughly $200,000 balance. Bobbitt says he fears that the couple, Kate McClure and her boyfriend, Mark D'Amico, squandered much of the money. He worries there may be...
  • Homeless Samaritan suing couple who raised funds to help him

    08/29/2018 11:25:14 AM PDT · by Simon Green · 49 replies
    AP ^ | 08/29/18
    <p>MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) — A homeless man whose selfless act of using his last $20 to fill up the gas tank of a stranded motorist in Philadelphia got him worldwide attention is suing the couple who led a $400,000 fundraising campaign to help him.</p>