A New Jersey woman who used a fake GoFundMe to raise more than $400,000 for a homeless veteran was sentenced to 3 years in prison

• A New Jersey woman got three years in state prison for creating a fake GoFundMe.
• Katelyn McClure, 32, was already serving a one-year sentence on federal charges.

A New Jersey woman who faced theft charges after creating a fake GoFundMe with her boyfriend to scam donors out of $400,000 was sentenced to three years in state prison on Friday.

Katelyn McClure, 32, was already serving a one-year sentence on federal charges related to the case. McClure was sentenced to three years in state prison on Friday for theft charges, according to the Associated Press.

Prosecutors said that McClure and her former boyfriend Mark D'Amico came up with a fake story in November 2018, claiming that a homeless veteran named Johnny Bobbitt Jr. had given his last $20 to McClure when her car ran out of gas, according to the AP.

McClure, D'Amico, and Bobbitt all went as far as giving television and newspaper interviews in support of their campaign which they named "Paying It Forward," according to the AP. Police began investigating when Bobbit sued D'Amico and McClure, claiming that he did not receive the money from the campaign, the AP reported.

D'Amico was sentenced to five years in state prison in 2019 to run concurrently with a 27-month federal term and Bobbit was sentenced to federal and state probation.