A message seeking comment was left with his attorney Monday. The federal criminal complaint alleged all of the money raised in the campaign was spent by March 2018, with large chunks spent by McClure and DвЂ™Amico on a recreational vehicle, a BMW, and trips to casinos in Las Vegas and New Jersey.ДвЂ™Amico is scheduled to be sentenced in March. The scam eventually raised more than $400,000 in donations in the space of a month, according to investigators, who said almost no part of the tale was true and that instead, the group met near a Philadelphia casino in October 2017 shortly before they told their story.ДЄuthorities began investigating after Bobbitt sued the couple, accusing them of not giving him the money.

Investigators said DвЂ™Amico was the plotвЂ™s ringleader. DвЂ™Amico and McClure solicited donations through GoFundMe, purportedly to help Bobbitt, and conducted newspaper and television interviews. The trio made up a story in late 2017 about Bobbitt giving $20 to help McClure when her car ran out of gas in Philadelphia, according to prosecutors.

Both are scheduled to be sentenced on the federal charges in early 2022. Due to the Federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, signed into law on March 11, 2021, the IRS is allowing certain taxpayers to deduct up to 10,200 in unemployment benefits for tax year 2020. Bobbitt was sentenced to five yearsвЂ™ probation on state charges in 2019. Ohio taxes unemployment benefits to the extent they are included in federal adjusted gross income (AGI). previously pleaded guilty to state and federal charges. His former girlfriend, Katelyn McClure, and homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt Jr. The 42-year-old man had already pleaded guilty to charges in state court last year. An indictment unsealed in January 2020 charged DвЂ™Amico with a total of 16 counts of conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering. District Judge Noel Hillman in Camden to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

A New Jersey man who conspired with his girlfriend to concoct a feelgood story about a helpful homeless man and then used the lie to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations online pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court.

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