I was always wondering about the large amount of money the GFM was able to raise.
With the new information that came to light, I'm wondering now, would there have been any (massively stupid) reason to siphon some of the trust fund money to into the gofundme campaign?
Nah. Near as I can tell, mostly from reading a thread that that was linked on one of the law-twitters...
Screech's grandfather was super-mega-rich. He died, and left A TON of money to Screech (along with various members of his family). But you can only inherit $12 million before you have to start paying taxes on that inheritance. But the Republicans keep pushing that number upwards, because they think it's unfair to have to pay taxes on $5 million, and it's still unfair to have to pay taxes on $10 million, and it's even still unfair to have to pay taxes on $12 million. So that's where Ty Beard comes in. He's an "estate lawyer" (aka wills and inheritances) and he's in charge of Screech's grandpa's will. Instead of giving Screech his inheritance all-at-once, they set up a "trust fund" and they're slowly giving Screech a monthly allowance, over years and decades, waiting for the tax-free number to get pushed up as high as possible by Republicans before Screech finishes collecting his inheritance, so maybe Screech has to pay no tax on it (or as little as possible).
So, it's not clear how much money Screech is inheriting, but him and Beard are clearly worried that $12 million is not a high enough tax-free ceiling for Screech's massive inheritance.
Vic Mignogna, meanwhile, also inherited millions, and he's estimated to be worth $4 million. It's why all of these assholes are Republican.
So Vic hates his co-workers for saying true things and wanted to sue the shit out of them, but he's hesitant to spend his own money on that, and his own lawyers told him that was a stupid idea and that he was going to lose.
So then Screech saw an opportunity and set up a GoFundMe, without Vic's knowledge or approval, and grifted 7500 minimum-wage misogynists and incels to the tune of about $33 each. With $0.25 million in GriftForMe money, he tempted the idiot Vic with "C'mon, sue your co-workers. It's free money..." When nobody would take the case, Screech said that he knew a super-lawyer who was an expert in libel/slander, and that super-lawyer is Ty Beard (LOL no, he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing).
Vic is apparently hilariously ignorant of the money involved in this grift, and Screech holds all the keys to the GoFundMe and could pocket the money anytime he wanted. But Screech probably isn't doing that. The grift is, Ty Beard has charged Vic (through Vic's foolish fans) a quarter of a million dollars for some half-assed incompetent work that's getting thrown out of the courtroom. Vic absorbs all of the liability for this (like the flaming destruction of his career, and being on the hook to pay the penalties), while Ty Beard is the financial winner (because he soaked up all the GFM money), and Screech's youtube show gets a ton of free advertisement.
They're not gonna fuck up Screech's $12+ million by mixing it with the GoFundMe. Screech's inheritance is one thing. Grifting Vic's fans is another. They just forgot to tell Vic that the reason Screech recommended Ty Beard as a libel/slander lawyer is because Beard is Screech's friend and they have a multi-million dollar business relationship. Oops. Haha, fuck you Vic. You got exploited for everyone else's benefit.
