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neohippie

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21. is it legal to spend money raised for your legal defense on whatever you want

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Jul 18, 2012, 05:00 PM

Jul 2012

is it okay to use money you convinced people that you need for your legal defense fund on your own personal bills, buying new cell phones and paying off credit card debt and your vehicles, it would seem like you misrepresented what you needed money for, and defrauded those who donated

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Zimmerman spent $36K in 18 days on phones, Internet, credit cards and bills [View all] Judi Lynn Jul 2012 OP

I hope the idiot contributors to Zim's dot com chollybocker Jul 2012 #1

What kind of phone landline costs two thousand, five hundred bucks? MADem Jul 2012 #2

I think thats for an entire year or two which if you break it down is either cstanleytech Jul 2012 #4

Good grief! I can call USA, Caribbean, Mexico and Canada on a Verizon landline MADem Jul 2012 #7

Depends on who he is getting the service with I suppose. cstanleytech Jul 2012 #18

OUCH! MADem Jul 2012 #19

Nope, they havent rolled the Uverse in this area and it looks like ATT is bailing on the small urban cstanleytech Jul 2012 #23

Bummer! I hope you get decent coverage soon that isn't arm-and-leg in terms of price! nt MADem Jul 2012 #25

A Way to Hide Money erpowers Jul 2012 #14

I don't get it either. Liberal_in_LA Jul 2012 #24

"The judge ... said he believed Zimmerman was preparing for a life on the run" grasswire Jul 2012 #3

That is what it looks like to me also. uppityperson Jul 2012 #16

Judi Lynn Diclotican Jul 2012 #5

HhahahahhahhhahahahhAAA! lunatica Jul 2012 #6

Paying $$ for a landline is inconsistant with planning to run. jerseyjack Jul 2012 #8

No it isn't. JoeyT Jul 2012 #9

One of the symptom's of psychopathy is impulsivity. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #10

Gosh, that *wink* $155 dollars *wink* won't last long at that rate. tanyev Jul 2012 #11

from here on out, why would anybody believe anything this lying little shit has to say? KG Jul 2012 #12

People Who Donated Got Played erpowers Jul 2012 #13

Those donors are jackasses libodem Jul 2012 #15

...such a slime. SoapBox Jul 2012 #17

Who does he think he is, arely staircase Jul 2012 #20

is it legal to spend money raised for your legal defense on whatever you want neohippie Jul 2012 #21

thing is, i don't think it was a "defense fund" per se, just a fund the asshole set up so he could dionysus Jul 2012 #22

hahahha, i laugh at those who donated money JI7 Jul 2012 #26