Posted on 08/22/2020 1:14:38 PM PDT by conservative98
Did the Wall GoFundMe Founder Use the Money to Buy a Yacht?
In 2019, we found no evidence Brian Kolfage purchased a yacht — or any other personal items — with money raised for building a border wall. But in August 2020, organization leaders were indicted on fraud charges.
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Our original article is below:
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The post prompted readers to write in and ask Snopes.com whether Kolfage bought a yacht with funds raised for the wall. Kolfage said it’s not only not true, but it would have been impossible.
He purchased the vessel in question for $675,000, paid mostly up front, after selling another boat in the summer of 2018 — a full six months before the border wall stalemate and GoFundMe campaign started, Kolfage told us in an email. He also sent us the bylaws for We Build the Wall, a new 501c(4) non-profit he is in the process of registering with the Internal Revenue Service to manage the funds and forthcoming wall-construction projects. Those bylaws preclude him and anyone else associated with the organization from taking a salary or otherwise using the money for private purposes.
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But Kolfage told us he has other streams of income, which include day trading and investment money. He received about $100,000 from a Department of Defense life insurance program after losing three limbs in Iraq; he invested the money in 2005, and it grew exponentially. He owns a coffee company and told us he has been “blessed in my life, and making smart choices with my money has given me the financial freedom to afford things that I have today.”
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BOAT...
Bust Out Another Thousand.
Did Hillary Clinton use Hatian aid money for Chelsea’s wedding with the Epstein broad in attendance?
The swamp takes no prisoners.
Bannon doesn’t look at all worried.
“Once you’ve had a man with no legs, you never go back, baby.”
Arrogant crooks seldom do until sentencing day.
There’s something odd about the whole story. Steve Bannon obviously doesn’t need the money he allegedly got by defrauding these donors.
I had a one legged woman once
Ashley and Brian Kolfage.
Out on the boat today.
Check the stories.
https://www.instagram.com/ashleyk_hawaii
Exactly.
And, thankfully...for now, in this country, you’re INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty in a court of law.....not by keyboard FR *attorneys*.
SNOPES - well do they or ever have misled anyone?
Will the Feds want the implants back?
On day one! If Biden is President, he’ll send a bill to congress to get them back!
I relish the idea that the Brooklyn DA made a monumental error and has defamed a war hero. What what would be the prospects of putting him out of business for ever??
Eileen?
Who is Kolfag and why should anyone care?
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