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A New Jersey couple and a homeless veteran caught in an acrimonious battle over more than $400,000 in donations to a GoFundMe fundraiser have been charged with second-degree felonies for allegedly fabricating the story that got them the money in the first place.
The couple, Katelyn McClure and Mark D'Amico, and Johnny Bobbitt Jr. have been charged with second-degree theft by deception and conspiracy to commit theft by deception.
The story of the trio's chance meeting — the selflessness of a destitute man and the altruism of the couple hoping to get him back on his feet — was "irresistibly heartwarming," Scott Coffina (Burlington County Prosecutor) observed, adding that it successfully "hoodwinked a lot of people" and bilked them out of generous donations made in good faith.