• BleatingZombie@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Outlines alleged charity fraud and embezzlement on the scale of hundreds of thousands of dollars

    It’S juSt YoUtUbe dRaMa

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      11 months ago

      The core of it isn’t YouTube drama as the dude is actually committing a crime I believe, but a lot of the comments surrounding it is 1000% YouTube drama - same with the SSSniperwolf and JacksFilms stuff with one YouTuber stalking and doxxing the other on their Instagram and getting away basically scot-free because YouTube prefers one over the other and the fans of the perpetrator said they were 100% justified in stalking and revealing the other YouTuber’s home address.

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      11 months ago

      If it’s more then YouTube drama then there will be actual criminal charges or investigations by the IRS. Until then all the back and forth videos after the first one about whether he broke the law or not is just YouTube drama.

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        11 months ago

        I mean, the charity is getting audited for holding onto donations for 10 years. I think thats kinda a big deal regardless of if criminal charges happen

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        11 months ago

        Looked up into it. It’s not just fans and it’s not just YouTube. They ran fundraising golf tournaments that they ended straight up not even reporting on their taxes (we’re talking well above 100k$ missing). It’s very shady.

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          11 months ago

          He claims those weren’t always fundraising tournaments, they were done with his help or something, but not always with the intention of the proceeds going to charity apparently. Who knows, I’ll leave it for the IRS to decide.

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            11 months ago

            They literally had “fundraising for the Open Hand Foundation” on their banners every year.

            Whether or not these were literal frauds, it’s very shady and should destroy his reputation. I’ll let the lawyers figure out the rest.

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              11 months ago

              Agreed, his YouTube reputation should be destroyed and the legal stuff should be figured out in courts. That’s why I called this YouTuber drama.