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23.07.2022 - 00:03 / perezhilton.com
The woman who infamously created a phony viral sob story about a homeless vet giving her the last $20 he had is going to suffer some very real consequences.
Katelyn McLure was ordered to serve one year in prison and then three years of supervised release at her sentencing hearing in a New Jersey courtroom on Thursday. She must also pay restitution for the hundreds of thousands of dollars she received using the GoFundMe fundraiser, which first went viral back in 2017.
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As Perezcious readers will recall, we’ve covered the unbelievable story of this grifter, her boyfriend, and the homeless man in the past. Katelyn and her partner, Mark D’Amico, first hatched the plot five years ago. In a video, they claimed a homeless man named Johnny Bobbitt had given them his last $20 bill after Katelyn ran out of gas in the middle of the night.
What really happened, as prosecutors later discovered, is that the three of them had actually met a month before that at a casino in the Philadelphia area. Bobbitt was known to hang around outside the casino. According to prosecutors, the three of them got together and devised a plan to create a viral sob story about Bobbitt being down on his luck.
After posting the made-up tale about the $20 bill for gasoline on the fundraising site in 2018, donations poured in. More than 14,000 people donated almost $400,000 to the GoFundMe page made by the couple in Bobbitt’s name. The scheme may have gone off without a hitch, but greed got in between the co-conspirators. Bobbitt sued the couple in 2018, claiming they only shared part of about $75,000 with him. Instead, he alleged, they blew the rest of the cash on luxury items, new cars, casino trips, and things for
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