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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12594871" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mark-damico" source="Orion">Mark D'Amico</keyword> pleaded guilty for his role in a $400,000 <keyword id="11918258" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="gofundme" source="Orion">GoFundMe</keyword> scam, the DOJ said in a release.</li><li><keyword id="12594873" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="katelyn-mcclure" source="Orion">Katelyn McClure</keyword> and <keyword id="12594872" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="johnny-bobbitt" source="Orion">Johnny Bobbitt</keyword> Jr. previously pleaded guilty to charges related to the scam.</li></ul>A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty in federal court over his participation in a $400,000 GoFundMe scam that falsely purported to help a veteran experiencing homelessness, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/burlington-county-man-admits-role-conspiracy-defraud-internet-donors">the US Attorney's Office said in a Monday press release</a>. Mark D'Amico pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on Monday for his role in the 2017 scam. D'Amico and co-conspirators accepted money from internet donors under the false guise that the cash would be given to a homeless veteran, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachel A. Honig said in the press release.The charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud can result in a maximum incarceration period of 20 years and a $250,000 fine, according to D'Amico's plea agreement, which was obtained by Insider.D'Amico had been charged with 15 other counts, including engaging in financial transactions designed to conceal and conspiracy to engage in monetary transactions in property derived from wire fraud, according to court documents obtained by Insider. The plea agreement stipulated that the US Attorney's Office would move to dismiss the remaining charges if D'Amico pleaded guilty to and was sentenced on the charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.The 42-year-old's guilty plea came more than two years after two co-conspirators, <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-bobbitt-kate-mcclure-pleaded-guilty-gofundme-scam-2019-3">Katelyn McClure and Johnny Bobbitt Jr.</a>, pleaded guilty in March 2019 to the same conspiracy charge and another charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering, respectively, according to the press release. McClure and Bobbitt Jr. are still awaiting sentencing, the release said. The scam began in November 2017, when D'Amico and McClure launched a GoFundMe page and devised a fake story about how they wanted to raise money to help Bobbitt, whom they claimed was a veteran experiencing homelessness, according to the press release, citing case documents and court statements.D'Amico and McClure, his girlfriend, said in their GoFundMe page that McClure met Bobbitt while she was driving home from Philadelphia and her car ran out of gas, and Bobbitt offered up his last $20 to pay for her, which inspired the duo to start a GoFundMe to support him, the press release said. The story was false, investigators found. <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/prosecutors-set-make-announcement-case-jersey-couple-raised/story?id=59215607">Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina</a> said in a 2018 <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">news</keyword> conference that investigators believed D'Amico and McClure originally met Bobbitt outside of a casino in Philadelphia around a month before the couple started the GoFundMe scam, according to ABC News. The district attorney's criminal complaint said the couple met Bobbitt while he was panhandling in Philadelphia. Bobbitt joined the Marines in 2002 but left 14 months later, <a href="https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-army/2017/11/27/the-homeless-marine-vet-who-is-now-famous-never-finished-his-first-enlistment/">the Marine Corps Times reported in 2017</a>, citing the Marine Corps' Manpower and Reserve Affairs office.The GoFundMe scam raised $400,000 from over 14,000 donors in under a month, the release states, after the false story proliferated online and was promoted by media outlets.Bobbitt was informed of the scam and the money raised by the couple in the middle of November 2017, and went along with it and conspired in the scam, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), citing case documents and court statements. In December 2017, the duo gave $25,000 of the cash to Bobbitt after they helped him open up a bank account, according to the DOJ, citing case documents and court statements.<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/prosecutors-set-make-announcement-case-jersey-couple-raised/story?id=59215607">Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina</a> said in a 2018 news conference that investigators believed that D'Amico and McClure originally met Bobbitt outside of a casino in Philadelphia around a month before the couple started the GoFundMe scam, according to ABC News. D'Amico and McClure, who were dating at the time, spent much of the money on personal items like a BMW and clothing, and D'Amico gambled some of it, the DOJ wrote in the release, citing case documents and court statements.In August 2018, <a href="https://www.insider.com/couple-that-raised-gofundme-for-homeless-veteran-withheld-2018-8">Bobbitt sued the couple for taking most of the money from the scam</a> while only giving him $75,000 of the total, and a judge ordered D'Amico and McClure to give all the remaining cash from the fund to a frozen trust which would be controlled by Bobbitt.In December 2018, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-gofundme-says-donors-in-alleged-homeless-scam-refunded-2018-12">GoFundMe said it had refunded money</a> to all the people who contributed to the scam fundraiser.D'Amico's sentencing is scheduled for March 28, 2022, according to the DOJ's release.Attorneys for D'Amico, Bobbitt, and McClure did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

A New Jersey man pleaded guilty to conspiracy over a $400,000 homeless veteran GoFundMe scam, DOJ says

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A New Jersey woman got three years in state prison for creating a fake GoFundMe.</li><li>Katelyn McClure, 32, was already serving a one-year sentence on federal charges.</li></ul>A New Jersey woman who faced theft charges after creating a fake GoFundMe with her boyfriend to scam donors out of $400,000 was sentenced to three years in state prison on Friday.Katelyn McClure, 32, was already <a href="https://www.insider.com/katelyn-mcclure-sentenced-doj-collecting-400k-bobbitt-homeless-veteran-story-2022-7">serving</a> a one-year sentence on federal charges related to the case. McClure was sentenced to three years in state prison on Friday for theft charges, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/new-jersey-prisons-2008b56b78d6d3927e5da5ad45ce7062" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>.Prosecutors said that McClure and her former boyfriend Mark D'Amico came up with a fake story in November 2018, claiming that a homeless veteran named Johnny Bobbitt Jr. had given his last $20 to McClure when her car ran out of gas, according to the AP.McClure, D'Amico, and Bobbitt all went as far as giving television and newspaper interviews in support of their campaign which they named "Paying It Forward," according to the AP. Police began investigating when Bobbit sued D'Amico and McClure, claiming that he did not receive the money from the campaign, the AP reported.D'Amico was sentenced to five years in state prison in 2019 to run concurrently with a 27-month federal term and Bobbit was sentenced to federal and state probation.

A New Jersey woman who used a fake GoFundMe to raise more than $400,000 for a homeless veteran was sentenced to 3 years in prison

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Katelyn McClure and her at-the-time boyfriend Mark D'Amico fabricated a story of a <keyword id="12096785" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="homeless" source="Orion">homeless</keyword> veteran in 2017.</li><li>The couple raised $400,000 from 14,000 people on <keyword id="11918258" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="gofundme" source="Orion">GoFundMe</keyword>, after deceiving donors. </li></ul>A <keyword id="11925139" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="new-jersey" source="Orion">New Jersey</keyword> woman on Thursday was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison after she pleaded guilty to theft by scamming donors of $400,000 on GoFundMe after fabricating a homeless veteran story.Prosecutors <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/burlington-county-woman-sentenced-one-year-and-one-day-prison-role-scheme-launder-money">said</a> Katelyn McClure,32, and her boyfriend Mark D'Amico, 43, went viral in 2017 after fabricating a story about a homeless veteran, Johnny Bobbitt, 39. In the viral post, McClure claimed the homeless vet handed over his last $20 when she ran out of gas on a Philadelphia highway.According to the DOJ, the couple took this story to GoFundMe, where they started the "Paying It Forward" campaign with a $10,000 goal that promised donors that the money donated would provide living expenses for Bobbitt. The GoFundMe campaign raised approximately $400,000 from more than 14,000 donors in less than three weeks, which the couple quickly spent on personal expenses such as Casino trips and cars, according to The <a href="https://apnews.com/article/new-jersey-philadelphia-veterans-philanthropy-013070381f2fbac3dc94252e8fe33ba7">Associated Press</a>. Law enforcement began investigating the couple after Bobbitt sued the couple, accusing them of not giving him the money, according to the AP. According to the DOJ, D'Amico pleaded guilty in April and was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison. In addition to McClure's prison sentence, she must pay $400,000 in restitution, per the DOJ. Bobbit pleaded guilty and is awaiting federal sentencing.

New Jersey woman who used $400,000 from GoFundMe homeless vet scam on Casino trips and cars sentenced to a year in prison

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