This is a tale of the power of giving, greed, as well as the unraveling of a crowdsourcing system due to pompousness as well as ineptitude. During the holiday of 2017, Mark D'Amico and Kate McClure started a Gofundme charity event to aid a homeless veteran heroin addict. It went viral and caught the hearts of 14,000 people worldwide, and also increased thousands of hundreds of bucks. When a team of journalists and also authorities began to take notice, the brazen plan fallen apart.