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lawhawk8/31/2014 5:51:10 pm PDT

Two GoFundMe pages for Wilson have raised a combined $400k+. One of the two was set up by Shield of Hope, which I profiled previously here at LGF.

The other is a mystery. Efforts by the Los Angeles Times have come up empty on who’s behind the other one.

Nor was The Times able to immediately reach the anonymous founder of the “Support Officer Darren Wilson” page, a user called “Stand Up,” who has raised $235,750 and who has not been officially certified as a verified recipient on the donation page. GoFundMe’s spokeswoman vouched for the anonymous donor in a statement to The Times, however.

In contrast to the other Wilson page and the donation page for Brown, little information has been given to donors about who is running the anonymous fundraising effort.

In a message to visitors two weeks ago, the anonymous Wilson fundraiser page wrote that it was working with Shield of Hope to become a verified recipient. That has not happened. The fundraiser also gave out a pseudonymous Gmail account to users seeking more information, but did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.

In its statement to The Times, GoFundMe’s spokeswoman said the anonymously run donation page had also been removed from its search results, adding that “this campaign no longer meets GoFundMe’s stated requirement of having a valid Facebook account connected.”

GoFundMe’s security policies encourage users to “only contribute payments to GoFundMe users they personally know and trust. … Unfortunately there is no way to 100% guarantee that a user’s GoFundMe donation page contains accurate or truthful information.”

But spokeswoman Little said GoFundMe “has been in contact with the campaign organizer and has no reason to question their authenticity. Finally, GoFundMe does possess the ability to place a hold on all donations raised by any campaign that warrants further investigation.”

Think about that. $400,000+ for Officer Wilson, and nearly half of that amount was collected by a group that wont let you know who they really are. That’s after GoFundMe had to shut down the comments for becoming a racist and vile cesspool of hate directed at Michael Brown for being shot and killed by Wilson.