AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Karmelo Anthony's family launches new $250,000 fundraiser for appeal while refusing to account for $634,000 already raised
The family of convicted killer Karmelo Anthony wants donors to give another $250,000 for his murder appeal, even as basic questions about how the previous $634,000 in donations was spent remain unanswered. Two weeks after a Texas judge denied Anthony's bid for a new trial, his family and a six-lawyer legal team held a press […] The post Karmelo Anthony's family launches new $250,000 fundraiser for appeal while refusing to account for $634,000 already raised appeared first on American Almanac .
The family of convicted killer Karmelo Anthony wants donors to give another $250,000 for his murder appeal, even as basic questions about how the previous $634,000 in donations was spent remain unanswered. Two weeks after a Texas judge denied Anthony's bid for a new trial, his family and a six-lawyer legal team held a press conference in Dallas to announce the new crowdfunding campaign. The GiveSendGo page, titled the Karmelo Anthony Legal Fund, had already pulled in more than $30,000 by the time the Daily Mail reported on the effort. But when a reporter from NBC 5 asked how the hundreds of thousands raised before the trial were spent, the family's allies refused to answer. Anthony, now 19, is serving a 35-year prison sentence for…Open