A New Jersey man who pled guilty for his role in a GoFundMe scam that raised over $400,000 by tricking donors into thinking they were donating money to a homeless veteran has been sentenced to five years in state prison, officials say.
most of the funds, only offering him approximately $75,000, officials said.
“People genuinely wanted to believe it was true,” Burlington Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw said. “But it was all a lie, and it was illegal. Our office is pleased to bring justice for the more than 14,000 kind-hearted people who thought they were helping someone who was living in a desperate situation.”
Bobbitt was admitted into the New Jersey Judiciary's Recovery Court program in March 2019 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit theft by deception in the second degree, allowing him to seek treatment for addiction problems instead of being incarcerated, according to officials. If Bobbitt fails to stay clean, he could face five years in state prison. He's scheduled to be sentenced on August 23 in Camden, New Jersey, the prosecutor's office said.
Kate McClure appears in court at Burlington County Superior Court in Mount Holly, N.J. on Apr. 15, 2019.McClure pled guilty in April 2019 to theft by deception in the second degree, but claimed she advanced the false narrative about Bobbitt at D’Amico’s direction. She received a one-year prison sentence in federal court in July and is scheduled to receive a state sentence on September 9 in Mount Holly, New Jersey, officials said.
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