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LisaL

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1. He hasn't collected any money off the 2012 story as far as I know.

Reply to cyclonefence (Original post)

Sun Nov 18, 2018, 11:47 AM

Nov 2018

The story was posted on his facebook. She had known of his facebook.
Her texts are out there, from what I has seen of her texts, they don't suggest homeless guy was the mastermind.
Here is what she texted when she started the campaign. She didn't claim homeless guy came up with the idea.

“The gas part is completely made up but the guy isn’t," the text said. "I have to make something up to make people feel bad.”
http://nj1015.com/kate-mcclures-lawyer-calls-her-too-naive-to-mastermind-gofundme-hoax/

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Go Fund Me Scam beneficiary may have been mastermind of plot [View all] cyclonefence Nov 2018 OP

He hasn't collected any money off the 2012 story as far as I know. LisaL Nov 2018 #1

That text doesn't prove that Bobbitt wasn't part of the initial planning. SMC22307 Nov 2018 #3

There are some texts that suggest they started the campaign without maybe the homeless guy knowing. LisaL Nov 2018 #2

Now that one makes her sound like the mastermind. (n/t) SMC22307 Nov 2018 #4

It's just suspicious to me that the story they used was pretty much cyclonefence Nov 2018 #5