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by chermi 1602 days ago
Is the money that was already donated still accessible? This doesn't sit well with me. I guess it's a private company, but damn.
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They'll just refund it back, that's the standard policy. It's not stolen.
It sounds like they froze everything as is. If they can't legally release the funds to they'd likely just refund the people who donated.
A lawyer for the movement gave a press conference today, saying approximately the following. Because it is complicated for GoFundMe to distribute funds to individual truckers, GFM is exercising heightened due diligence, as they should. Meanwhile, the movement is setting up a nonprofit company, with all the proper auditing and accounting mechanisms in place. Once everything is ready, GFM will distribute the money to a trust fund managed by the company, and truckers will issue claims against the fund.

Edit: link: https://rumble.com/vtz6fg-freedom-convoy-2022-press-conferen... starts around 5:00