• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    He cannot claim and keep a straight face that he’s looking for charities when he speaks about a specific charity for years, be it 10 or 2.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      My point is that he could have just been evaluating charities for the past two years, and before that his siblings were supposed to take care of that. We don’t know what the internal agreements were, or the communication between him and the rest of the people in the foundation. All we know is that he claims he knew the money wasn’t donated in 2021, and that pushing on him last month got the money donated.

      None of this is particularly relevant to those who have donated, but it’s pretty important when looking at legal consequences and culpability. I think there’s enough here to say Jirard is a scumbag, but not enough to necessarily claim that he is a criminal, though there’s a good chance someone at the foundation has committed a crime.