The most pointed observation of them all:
"I've known many addicts in my life, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that none of them ever would have spent his last $20 to buy gas for a motorist in distress."
Who didn’t see this coming?
Doing good for others is a big money maker.....
No good deed right?
No good deed......
..... Goes unpunished.
No surprise this happened in Jon Corzine’s state . . . commingling is the state’s top pastime . . .
Great, now the lawyers will get it all.
I've reached the point where there's no charity I give to anymore. And that includes the "Alumni Scholarship Fund" at my college (Hint: one really should check how trustees spend money). I'd rather go "downtown" with some singles, and give someone money for a hot dog or Subway sandwich or an all-day bus pass, if they seem sincere when they ask. If they waste that small amount of money? It's on them and it's an opportunity to make a good choice.
grrr…….
Ah, charity...
I swear, I’ve given up on it. Even giving folks money that I know personally seems to backfire...let alone strangers and all...
Charity starts with me, and man, there’s all sorts of things I want... I’m less fortunate in so many places like...rv, boat, mtn bikes...new clothes....
And me? I’m always incredibly gracious for spoiling myself!
The Addict Fund.
Money For Addicts.
You’ve heard of the “Good Samaritan”?
This ain’t him.
Sounds like a case of fraud to me.
Sounds like typical liberals who would like to control his life with other people’s money. They raised the money for him, they should just give him the money. What he does with the money is his business. But they should have known that he would blow it.
No good deed goes unpunished.
This should be real easy to figure out. They raised $400,000. Do an accounting of how much money they have in the bank and, to the extent they paid any expenses out of it, what they paid. The homeless guy probably is wrong but I wouldn’t put it past someone to do what he said — use an incident like this for personal gain. It has happened time after time before.
I’ve often wondered who controls the funds raised in those GoFundMe drives and how it is ensured that the funds go for the purpose stated during the fund raising campaign. Still wondering.
There are charges that he blew thru the first $25K on drugs.
If that's true, the balance of the 'go fund me' money should be managed by some third party charity.
There are also charges that the couple spent A LOT of the money on themselves.
That needs to be resolved also.
If the guy paid his last $20 for gas for the woman, maybe he wasn’t such a big addict as the perps claim.
The couple should have removed themselves from the cash chain as soon as possible by going to Court and having a legal guardian (usually an attorney) appointed by the court and placed in charge of the funds. The court-appointed guardian would have assumed the responsibility to provide for the subject. And a court guardian would have access to many programs to help the subject. Once a person signs on as guardian, official or ‘unofficial’, they can’t just drop the ball without finding another guardian and keep the money as some sort of consolation prize. People are not dogs nobody bothered to house-break, to be passed around or left on the side of the road when they piddle in the house.
Claiming an addict will always be an addict is a copout excuse for their misappropriating money. As it stands, the couple might be in trouble for extortion, mail fraud, wire fraud and/or racketeering (maybe even abuse of a disabled person) especially since they spent a good portion of that money on themselves. The vehicles and vacations, the camper set on private land and not in the subject’s name (and since sold by them for their own profit), are also evidence of misdoing.
These people are claiming victim, but they are thieves, plain and simple, who danced with the law and got caught.
No money left?
Best idea, Plead the 5th!