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By Avalon Zoppo , www2.philly.com September 4th, 201 A lawyer for Johnny Bobbitt, the homeless man whose kindness to a stranger inspired a $400,000 GoFundMe campaign, said Tuesday that all of the money raised for his client is gone. Chris Fallon said he learned of the missing money in a conference call Tuesday morning with lawyers for Kate McClure and Mark D'Amico, the Burlington County couple accused of mismanaging the money raised for Bobbitt. "It completely shocked me when I heard," said Fallon. "It came as a complete surprise to me." Word of the missing funds came on the same day Bobbitt's lawyers asked a judge to impose sanctions on the couple after the pair missed a court-ordered deadline to hand over the remaining GoFundMe money. Bobbitt hired a legal team after becoming concerned that the couple had squandered much of the money raised to help him get off the streets. He said they denied him access to the funds while sp...

Elizabeth Robertson/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP PHILADELPHIA — Johnny Bobbitt says he has no access to the $400,000 raised for him by strangers on GoFundMe and fears the couple who started the fund may have squandered it. A homeless man who famously helped a stranded motorist in Philadelphia by giving her his last $20 to buy gas is panhandling once again and using drugs. And Johnny Bobbitt, 35, says he has no access to the hundreds of thousands of dollars raised for him by strangers throughout the world who were touched by his story and donated to a GoFundMe campaign. GoFundMe is investigating whether the $400,000 raised was mismanaged, and said it will work to ensure Bobbitt “receives the help he deserves and that the donors’ intentions are honored.” Bobbitt gained worldwide attention when he used his last $20 to fill up the gas tank of stranded motorist Kate McClure in November 2017. McClure and her boyfriend Mark D’Amico started a GoFundMe campaign in return...