Karmelo Anthony stabbed a white high school student at a track meet. Karmelo claimed that the other student provoked him. Karmelo got to go through his graduation ceremony, and raised over $500,000 for his legal defense fund. Strangely, Karmelo's family went on a bit of a shopping spree as the $$$$$$ came rolling in.
Then video comes out which casts serious doubt on Karmelo's story, and he's charged with murder. News came out the other day that Karmelo needs a public defender. What happened to the $$$$$$?
Dude should probably just plead guilty and get this over with.
This reminds me of another instance where people raised large sums of money based on what happened to a black criminal, that money pretty much is unaccounted for as well.
Maybe we need some sort of oversight of these fund raising campaigns to make sure that the money is used for it's intended purpose.
4 comments:
I dunno, Craig. If people are stupid enough to donate for this kind of cause, they pretty much flushed their dough down the toilet already. It's kinda poetic justice that their money was squandered on unrelated things, sorta like our tax dollars but without the forced contribution.
I guess, although it seems like there should be some scam protection.
At some point "buyer beware" must come into play.
Buyer beware always comes into play, yet we also have laws that punish fraud.
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