http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...nations-streets.html

Homeless veteran given $400,000 through GoFundMe page after using his last $20 to buy a stranded woman gas is BACK on the streets because the couple he helped have spent half the cash and won't let him touch the rest

Johnny Bobbitt, 35, is back living under a bridge in Philadelphia despite having $400,000 donated to him by strangers
In November, he fetched gas for Kate McClure when she ran out at night
McClure and her boyfriend Mark D'Amico set up a GoFundMe to repay him
It drew in more than 14,000 donations and their story made global headlines
The couple vowed to use the money to buy him a house and set up two trusts
Instead, they bought him a camper and put it on land her family owned
They say they have spent $200,000 on 'care' for him but won't show records
They once gave him $25,000 but he spent it on drugs and gave it to friends
The couple have in the meantime traveled to Las Vegas and Los Angeles
She has a new BMW and he has been in the casino but they say they always used their own money
Now, GoFundMe is investigating whether or not they mismanaged the funds

Wait, someone misused Go Fund Me. Shocked I am.

Putting my tinfoil hat on, maybe this was an elaborate plan the couple cooked up in the first place.

....or even a 'trio' plan....

Would you buy a used car from the BF?

In the absence of very strong evidence to the contrary,I assume everything on gofundme is a scam.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:

The couple have in the meantime traveled to Las Vegas and Los Angeles
She has a new BMW and he has been in the casino but they say they always used their own money

Had money for trips to Vegas and L.A. and a new BMW and casino trips yet didn't have money for gas so they had to accept money from a homeless guy?

Makes perfect sense to me.

And General Mike Flynn has had a whopping $4k pledged to him.

Go Fund Me can truly be Go F**k Me.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Would you buy a used car from the BF?

He doesn't sell cars. He sells Meth!!!

In that picture both males look homeless

GoFuckMe

Heard of a Go Fund Me that one person started, supposedly for another. Then refused to give the person anything.

Then there was the homeless Vet

“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 little, or nothing, left.”
“In return, McClure and D'Amico, 39, gave Bobbitt money, food, and clothing. Their GoFundMe campaign to find Bobbitt a home inspired 14,347 donors to give generously as the three appeared on Good Morning America, the BBC, and in newspapers across the country.
"He will never have to worry about a roof over his head again!!" the couple posted on GoFundMe as they thanked "everyone who had a part of this amazing ride."
The couple promised donors they would set up two trusts for Bobbitt's benefit and hire a lawyer and a financial adviser for him to help manage the money and invest for his future.”
“In an interview last week, the couple said they used their own money to buy the BMW and to pay for vacations. D'Amico said he spent $500 of the GoFundMe money to gamble because he did not have his SugarHouse Casino card one night, but he said he quickly repaid it with his winnings.
As for Bobbitt, the couple said he once burned through $25,000 they gave him in less than two weeks. They said he stole from them and pawned some of their possessions for cash to feed his drug habit, allegations he denies.
With no formal accounting of the money and no financial statements, it is unclear how much is left. What is clear is that Bobbitt has little to show for it.
He insists that the couple didn't shell out anywhere near the $200,000 they say they spent on his care. He said McClure and D'Amico controlled most of the spending and limited how much they gave him to live on. He said he had no direct access to the money donors contributed.”
https://gizmodo.com/womans-gof...400-000-b-1828581483

Not surprising.

He's broke and homeless for a reason, and it's ain't "bad luck".

And they weren't doing it just to help him out of the goodness of their hearts, otherwise they wouldn't have been all over the national news giving interviews and tooting their own horns.

So a pair of douchbags and a drug addict cooked up a scam, burned through a bunch of free money, and are acting like douchbags and a drug user?

No.. say it aint so

“D’Amico said he spent $500 of the GoFundMe money to gamble because he did not have his SugarHouse Casino card one night, but he said he quickly repaid it with his winnings.“

Yeah, that’s it. That’s the ticket.

If there was just a way I could send them some money to help...

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Originally posted by Georgeair:
GoFuckMe

In this case, it sounds more like GoFuckYourself.

Chit, they didn't mean to take him in to raise.
He's a bum that would squander it in days.
It's prolly put up in funds and he's way ahead of the distributions.
They chose to be good ppl but Got taken by a bum, doper, street urchin.
........

I wonder how many of these GoFundMe deals are scams that we just never hear about because they don't generate $400K and a ton of media coverage?

Looks like all the money is gone...

https://6abc.com/all-gofundme-...ss-man-says/4144230/