Balanced News: Woman gets 3 years in bogus good Samaritan online fundraiser

A New Jersey woman who pleaded guilty to helping her boyfriend spread a feel-good story that garnered more than $400,000 in online donations has been sentenced to three years in prison on state theft charges Her state prison term will run concurrently and the former transportation department worker will be barred from ever working again as a New Jersey public employee. The three conducted newspaper and television interviews and solicited donations, ostensibly to help Bobbitt, through a GoFundMe campaign they named “Paying It Forward,” prosecutors said.