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To: Simon Green

Who didn’t see this coming?


3 posted on 08/29/2018 11:27:06 AM PDT by fireman15
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I'm actually happy to see this lawsuit filed. It will an interesting case study in some legal issues associated with GoFundMe and similar fund-raising mechanisms like that.

If I open a GoFundMe page for the guy next door to raise money to deal with some kind of distress he's facing, who has the legal right to collect and distribute the money?

The biggest problem the plaintiff in this case may face is that he may have no standing to even file the lawsuit if someone else set up the GoFundMe page. And if they used it to collect $400,000 under phony pretenses, then it's the DONORS, not the phony "recipient," who probably have a stronger case against the perpetrators.

8 posted on 08/29/2018 11:31:31 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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