Earlier, the company used to charge a certain percentage commission from the amount raised on personal campaigns. The star's cousin claimed that "in seven weeks, Jen and her family have spent over $138,000 in legal fees and costs. Initially started with a for-profit crowdfunding business model, GoFundMe shifted to a non-profit donation-based business model in 2017 after receiving feedback from the users which suggested (and demanded) all of the money to go to the cause.
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"Jen needs $2.5 million dollars because:1) there are over 1 million documents in this case that must be immediately reviewed and analyzed by Jen’s lawyers before her case goes to trial in October 2021 2) the Southern District of New York is the most expensive jurisdiction in the country to defend a lawsuit, and to hire competent legal counsel 3) Jen has to have the economic wherewithal to fight the government’s lawyers, who have an open checkbook and can spend millions of dollars prosecuting this case and 4) by defending this case and going to trial, Jen’s family has and will continue to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal costs, which includes hiring investigators to interview potential witnesses, hiring experts in various fields (economists, accountants, jury consultants, forensic computer and data analysts, etc.) and paying for hundreds of hours of legal research, trial exhibits and witness binders, etc." "Jen is facing decades incarcerated in prison separated from her family if she is unable to mount a competent and well-thought-out defense. (A 2.9-per-cent charge still goes to payment processors. The description continued: "We are asking 10,000 caring souls to donate $250. GoFundMe used to take a five-per-cent commission, but since 2017 it has waived that fee for personal fund-raising in the United States.
15 Her cousin, Danny Filipe, set up the GoFundMe page Credit: Danny Filipe/Instagram John Hobbs is organising this fundraiser.
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