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NJ Man Admits Hatching $400,000 Homeless GoFundMe Scam
The mastermind of a GoFundMe scheme that conned 14,000 donors across the country out of $400,000 to purportedly benefit a homeless veteran admitted in federal court in New Jersey on Monday that he and his ex-girlfriend pocketed most of the money.
Mark D’Amico, 42, formerly of Bordentown, admitted concocting a bogus feel-good story about the supposed victim coming to the rescue of Katelyn McClure after she ran out of gas on Route 95 on her way home to New Jersey from Philadelphia.
Both McClure and the homeless man, Johnny Bobbitt Jr., were in on the scheme, authorities said.
Together, D’Am…
NJ Dad, Daughter, Son In-Law Among Nearly 100 Missing In Miami's Champlain Towers Collapse
A New Jersey couple was among nearly 100 people missing Friday, the day after a 12-story building collapsed in Miami.
Harry Rosenberg, his daughter Malky Weisz and husband, Benny, were still unaccounted for, Jewish Breaking News reports.
The young married couple from Lakewood was on vacation and had left a neighbor with a key to bring in their mail while they were away, NBC reports.
“This is a rescue operation not recovery," U.S. Congressman Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) said. "People have survived for days under rubble.
“I have spoken to Harry, Benny and Malky’s friend Eli…
