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Mark D’Amico pleads guilty to $400,000 GoFundMe scam about helping homeless vet Johnny Bobbitt

The scam started with a lie about Johnny Bobbitt Jr., who the couple said came to Kate McClure’s rescue when she ran out of gas off an exit on I-95 in Philadelphia on a cold night in the fall of 2017.

File photo of Johnny Bobbitt Jr. (left), Mark D'Amico, and Kate McClure at the CITGO station, where the trio falsely claimed Bobbitt used his last $20 to buy gas for a stranded McClure.
File photo of Johnny Bobbitt Jr. (left), Mark D'Amico, and Kate McClure at the CITGO station, where the trio falsely claimed Bobbitt used his last $20 to buy gas for a stranded McClure.Read moreELIZABETH ROBERTSON / Staff Photographer