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This is the latest on a thread I posted last week:
"I was shocked and just appalled," an attorney for homeless man Johnny Bobbitt said after she was informed none of the money is left.
by Phil Helsel / Sep.04.2018 / 4:34 PM ET
An attorney representing a homeless man who is trying to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars raised in a GoFundMe campaign that went viral claims he was told that there is no money left.
Chris Fallon, an attorney representing homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt Jr., told NBC Philadelphia that he learned the more than $402,000 that was raised is gone in a conference call with attorneys for the couple who headed the campaign last year, Katie McClure and her boyfriend, Mark D'Amico.
"Shock. I was shocked and just appalled," another of Bobbitt's attorneys, Jacqueline Promislo, who was on the conference call, said in a phone interview with NBC News later Tuesday.
She said there was no explanation about the money, other than that they were told "there was no money transferred because there was no money left," and that "it was not up for interpretation."
The couple's attorney, Ernest E. Badway, in an email declined to comment to NBC News.
[snipped]
Promislo said that Bobbitt is currently homeless and focusing on getting into rehab. She said he was addicted to heroin, was successful in a program for a long period of time and relapsed, and was getting suboxone, an opioid-treatment drug, but when he was unable to get the hard-to-obtain medication he also bought it illegally.
D'Amico told Megyn Kelly last week that they were "in the process of having everything looked over by our lawyer" and that the money would soon be out of their hands.
"The issue is not what Johnny did with it," Promislo said. "The issue is what did Kate and Mark do with the money."
"Now they're attempting this very patronizing [argument] that they’re trying to protect him from himself," she said.
There is a hearing in the case scheduled Wednesday morning, Promislo said.
by Phil Helsel / Sep.04.2018 / 4:34 PM ET
An attorney representing a homeless man who is trying to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars raised in a GoFundMe campaign that went viral claims he was told that there is no money left.
Chris Fallon, an attorney representing homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt Jr., told NBC Philadelphia that he learned the more than $402,000 that was raised is gone in a conference call with attorneys for the couple who headed the campaign last year, Katie McClure and her boyfriend, Mark D'Amico.
"Shock. I was shocked and just appalled," another of Bobbitt's attorneys, Jacqueline Promislo, who was on the conference call, said in a phone interview with NBC News later Tuesday.
She said there was no explanation about the money, other than that they were told "there was no money transferred because there was no money left," and that "it was not up for interpretation."
The couple's attorney, Ernest E. Badway, in an email declined to comment to NBC News.
[snipped]
Promislo said that Bobbitt is currently homeless and focusing on getting into rehab. She said he was addicted to heroin, was successful in a program for a long period of time and relapsed, and was getting suboxone, an opioid-treatment drug, but when he was unable to get the hard-to-obtain medication he also bought it illegally.
D'Amico told Megyn Kelly last week that they were "in the process of having everything looked over by our lawyer" and that the money would soon be out of their hands.
"The issue is not what Johnny did with it," Promislo said. "The issue is what did Kate and Mark do with the money."
"Now they're attempting this very patronizing [argument] that they’re trying to protect him from himself," she said.
There is a hearing in the case scheduled Wednesday morning, Promislo said.
