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<\/span><\/h2>\nWhen did things go wrong?<\/h2>\n
The relationship between the three soured in August when Mr Bobbitt brought legal action against the couple, alleging they were using the funds as their personal “piggy bank” to fund an extravagant lifestyle.<\/p>\n
After exceeding their original fundraising goal of $10,000, they bought clothing and a new camper van for Mr Bobbitt, but later reportedly asked him to remove it from outside their property.<\/p>\n
Ms McClure and Mr D’Amico told their online supporters the money would go to two financial trusts for Mr Bobbitt, as well as a lawyer and a financial adviser to help him manage all the money.<\/p>\n
“Every dollar he ever touched was used for drugs,” Mr D’Amico told NBC in a nationally televised interview in August.<\/p>\n
Investigators claimed the three originally made up the story to make people feel bad and compel donors to contribute to a cause.<\/p>\n
What happened to the money?<\/h2>\n
Net proceeds for Ms McClure and Mr D’Amico amounted to more than $367,000 (\u00a3287,000) and were spent on a car, holidays, high-end handbags and casino gambling, Mr Coffina said.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor said that Mr Bobbitt received about $75,000 (\u00a358,000).<\/p>\n
In thousands of text messages read by police, the couple had discussed financial woes, inability to pay bills and debts, and Mr D’Amico said he hoped to raise more money by pursuing a book deal about the story.<\/p>\n
Expressing sympathy for Mr Bobbitt’s homelessness, the prosecutor nonetheless accused the veteran of being “fully complicit” in the campaign, promoting it in several media appearances and appearing in the original photograph.<\/p>\n
Mr Bobbitt posted a similar story on Facebook in 2012 about helping a woman who had run out of petrol, officials say, but that “full responsibility” should be ascribed to all three.<\/p>\n
In a statement to CNN, a spokesman for the crowdfunding site Go Fund Me confirmed donors who contributed to the campaign would receive a refund.<\/p>\n
By Georgina Rannard, UGC & Social News<\/i><\/p>\n
Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"