The woman who infamously created a phony viral sob story about a homeless vet giving her the last $20 he had is going to suffer some very real consequences. Katelyn McLure was ordered to serve one year in prison and then three years of supervised release at her sentencing hearing in a New Jersey courtroom on Thursday.
She must also pay restitution for the hundreds of thousands of dollars she received using the GoFundMe fundraiser, which first went viral back in 2017. Related: Jen Shah Scammed Her Way To Prison! As Perezcious readers will recall, we’ve covered the unbelievable story of this grifter, her boyfriend, and the homeless man in the past.
Katelyn and her partner, Mark D’Amico, first hatched the plot five years ago. In a video, they claimed a homeless man named Johnny Bobbitt had given them his last $20 bill after Katelyn ran out of gas in the middle of the night.
What really happened, as prosecutors later discovered, is that the three of them had actually met a month before that at a casino in the Philadelphia area.
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