A New Jersey man who made up a story about a homeless veteran helping out his then-girlfriend and used the tale to solicit $400,000 in online donations has been sentenced to prison
Mark D'Amico, one of the three conspirators in the notorious GoFundMe scandal of 2017, was sentenced to five years in state prison on Friday.
Mark D'Amico had pleaded guilty in December 2019 and admitted concocting the feel-good tale in late 2017 about Johnny Bobbitt Jr. giving his last $20 to help D'Amico's girlfriend, Katelyn McClure, when her car ran out of gas on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia. The campaign raised more than $400,000 from about 14,000 donors in about a month and at the time was the largest fraud perpetrated through the crowdfunding platform, according to the prosecutor's office in Burlington County, New Jersey.
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