@@nofleshspared Are you out of your mind? This criminal stole 600k+ from CHARITY and your best excuse is "whataboutism"? I'm not even going to entertain the lie that wallmart commits 600k+ charity fraud everyday because it doesn't matter and it doesn't change the fact that what he did was wrong, so don't even think about moving the goalposts. Ohhh, poor little! He just has 1.6 Million subscribers! He's practically a baby! Who cares about the fans, who care about the people in need who were supposed to get the money.. My para-social relationship is more important!
@@nofleshsparedThere's a difference from a giant ass corporation that people in food deserts rely on... And then there are individuals that can be held accountable from their own actions. Use your brain, seriously.
I’m all but certain Jirard and Open Hand have gotten lawyers involved at this point and have been strongly advised to stay silent. Pretty much the first thing any lawyer will say when defending you is to shut up. Especially if you’re guilty.
He specifically stated in the Mutahar/Jobst discord interview that he was doing said interview against the advice of his lawyers. Which presumably got him a lot of flak from said lawyers after the interview, especially when things blew up.
This is what happens when you include family members in your business. My first company, a small cleaning business, included my uncle (an accountant) and my cousin (my manager). Basically my uncle was misreporting earnings, cousin was lying about working and basically stealing money, and we lost several contractors and businesses because of their poor management. Absolute nightmare, only work with professionals or put cameras everywhere.
lmao I looked for this comment. Worked security for 12 years. All went downhill when it became a family business, of course. Every dollar that was intended to go into payroll got sucked out and given to some camgirl and it imploded shortly afterwards. Meanwhile I'm working 18--20 hour shifts because the other guard was a relative who just decided to sleep in most days. One hour commute to work both ways. Love is stealing from your family and making sure they sleep for less than 2 hours a night.
I donated to this over a few years (totaling 500 dollars) because i believed in what The Completionist was doing, I believed his sob story and felt that this was worth me giving money to a good cause......and while the "cause" is good (donating to fight dementia), I have lost all respect for Jirard and feel beyond cheated. I don't care what weird, back alley way people have in defending him, this is complete shit and there is NO excuse for holding the funds for 10 years.
Ppl like him make it hard to trust even things like st. Jude children or Ronald McDonald house and it's a damn shame or the V foundation. Imo these are legit I'm positive there are others. Just pointing out this scummy stuff detracts from donors which deducts the amount of research to be done.... I'm rambling I'm sorry. This gets me heated man
The funny thing is I never could get into the completionst because how often jirard used sob stories and victimhood. I would pop in to watch a video every few years and sure enough he was throwing in sob stories. And the thing was it never felt genuine. It felt like he wanted my sympathy and you can read the comments of people eating it up. This dude is a professional victim.
@@Livvvid I haven't watched many of his videos just a games, but never noticed this with him. Granted I never really payed attention. Looking back tho you are absolutely right. This guy sickens me
@@Justanotherguy83 I only ever watched the core series videos and maybe I got lucky and landed on the videos where he did it (he didnt do it every video). But if you can ever find one where he does it just pay attention how he physically and emotional tries to sell it. He gets all puppy dog face and pouty, ive only ever seen that in kids trying to manipulate their parents for a toy at the store or something. Then he'll immediately segway into ".....and thats why todays sponser...." Its like the dude doesnt even respect himself and his supposed trauma but im supposed to?
He could set a wage. When I use to go to church, the preachers wage was $80k plus housing, food, travel, and health care. Over 6 figures. Most of the "tithe" went to him and the building upkeep.
@@xenn4985 They should had been donated immediately at the first chance they got after claiming they were going to certain charities. You don't get the benefit of the doubt after taking it away for 10 years while admitting to know about this for at least 2. It's theft, they didn't do what they had to do, there's no excuse for that.
just do what charity influencers do. say its for charity and donate just 1% to charity. 100% legal because they never said how much of it is actually going to charity.
Yup. So fraud is already bad. Fraud against a charity is ultra bad.. like good luck talking yourself out of that but a charity in your own DEAD MOTHERS name??? That’s pretty much the only way it could have gotten any worse….. and now we know it’s all true… dang.
Not just her memory, her body. In the emails, the brother tried to justify it wasn't fraud by saying that they donated body parts before creating the open hands foundation, so they already made a donation to help dementia research
After watching SomeOrdinaryGamer's latest video, I'm left with the distinct suspicion that Girard is likely trying to cover up either misfeasance or outright financial malfeasance by a family member.
Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if his dad is the mastermind here and he's trying to cover for him and whoever else. He's just as responsible obviously but he was basically born into this stuff lol
I had a hunch that his brother is stealing the money and Jirard truly was blindsided. I'm not defending Jirard tho. Clearly he is either incompetent or guilty.
I get the opposite feeling. That Jirard is the one stealing the money and letting his family hang for it. For all we know the golf charity actually gave the money to charity before open hand was founded.
The problem with when interviewers go hard on these people, they respond by hanging up or walking out. Sometimes, going easier makes them open up more, and they give up more info.
While normally that's true, i think this approach is more beneficial in this circumstance. This open-confrontational interview will reveal en masse the obvious deceit for those people that is not really up to date/wanted to donate, and shut down any blind defenders and white knights. If the completionist wants to hide more things, well, the official investigation will dig an even deeper hole for him, like really, will he/they hide informations when there's literally investigators hounding, and anymore hiding will result in loss by the law?
@@aereonexapprentice7205 open confrontation is a terrible approach, you don't want someone looking in to think you're bullying someone for information. the situation doesn't matter to the internet what matters is the way its portrayed and at the point they interviewed him it seemed likely it was a negligence case rather then fraud. Now its full on fraud + illegal dmca takedowns.
You have to literally walk on eggshells to get anything out of people like this. You have to be their friend first and then when their guard goes down you make the damaging questions. Your line of questioning has to be firm but friendly and usually they’ll spill it all.
@@aereonexapprentice7205 It's always better to go easy and build rapport for a criminal to open up, trying to make it look like the interviewer is their friend until the time comes. It's a common tactic used by detectives in interrogations to make suspects open up and admit guilt on murders/rapes, etc
@@aereonexapprentice7205 Going hard really only accomplishes two things. Makes you look/feel tougher and gets them to be defensive. The difference between a youtube interviewer and an actual criminal investigation is an officer can detain you vs in a voluntary interview if you push too hard you are just getting hung up on. Which maybe in the court of public opinion wins some brownie points but it doesn't lead to any information to solve the problem. The more talking the person does the better.
Correct. Probably in the first year or two, you let the money sit. Just as a caution. After that, no one is asking, no one inquiring, that money is going to then be spent on whatever they want. 10 years, you wouldn't even be worried until Karl came knocking
@@cagejonny704If its anything like in Canada, i really don't understand how they managed to do it for this long. I work for a charity organization and every single year we have people who show up and do a complete audit of our finances. For like literaly weeks and they will look at every penny, every tax receipt, and every transaction made during the year. People think its eazy to fraud using charity but trust me it isnt.
I think they spent the unreported donations and were holding the reported donations because they hadn't worked yet out how to spend those. It would have required siphoning them off to a sham charity org they controlled.
He was only excepting personal checks. He could have put it in any account even his personal account or a family members account or a friends account or put it in a account that only has a number. All of would be untraceable especially just a numbered account.
@@naughtydreems9548 all of that is 100% traceable, lol. banks have been using paper a lot longer than the internet.. paper fraud may be easy to slide under the radar at first, but if someone even glances in your direction, you are FUCKED
"Bits, donations, shirt. Buy the shirt, buy the coin, and buy the games all of its going to charity." Charity is the name of his bank account. He didn't lie. You just misunderstood silly.
The scale of the problem where people who run charity organisations become inexplicably and unreasonably wealthy is not on most people’s radar. I don’t know how this enormous legal blackhole exists but it is there and it is an incredibly deceitful evil. I once worked for a billionaire whose only professional descriptor was that he ran a charitable organisation. This was an immediate red flag and I didn’t stay there longer than I had to.
That's because it's a business. And they themselves are not volunteers. I understand the predicament, but what is the alternative really. It's a labor for them and it's just that they're being paid for their labor. In case some people don't know, charity organizations take a portion of the donated money for their own (iirc, it's closer to or more than 50%!). This is used to pay the workers who work for the company. Now, if you think it as $10 donation, they take $5, this seems reasonable enough, right? But what if someone donates $10000? $5000 straight up goes to the organization, and now we might go, "what?" As I said, "predicament".
That's how all Charities operate. The difference being most legitimate charities at least give 2-5% of their income to various causes. UNHCR is one of the most accountable charities in the world owing to its multinational ownership structure- between fucking kids in Haiti, they give away over 5% of donations annually to various scammer NGO's, 95% goes into administration. Most charities give away less than 3%, and most of that goes to associated companies.@@yofyo
@@andrewyp6724 But that's not what OP described. People who make themselves incredibly rich running a charity are "paid for their labor" the same way CEOs pay themselves $50M/yr. It's exploitation and should be illegal.
@@andrewyp6724 many non-charitable organisations are definitely not a business. I worked for two years in an NCO which was very well funded by both private donors and the Evangelical Church. Let's say every single Euro was accounted for and had to be invested into the work we were doing. The salaries were good, but they were not affected by the donations in any way. Basically the donors could ask at any moment what happened with their donations and the company could show the result. If it were ever found out that any money landed in a private pocket by anyone in the leadership, that person would land in jail straight away. But the company is structured in such a way that that would not even be possible at all simply because of how the accounting works - company's funds do not ever belong to the CEOs. I am talking about Germany here. Interestingly enough, there is no word for charity as an organisation in the German language. If it is officially an NCO, then stealing the donation money is a crime.
Someone on Karl's video pointed out that The paper filings for OHF use a fake address based on a church with a similarly names charity that helps at risk teens. It seems like such an intentional mistake to muddy their trail
I reported the Open Hand Foundation to the California Attorney General on their web page for reporting charities and they got back to me telling me they're aware of the situation. Continue to submit reports, report to the IRS, if they are flooded with hundreds or thousands of reports they will have to do a deep dive government investigation.
In these circumstances, I agree 100%. The more noise people make through legit channels, the more things can be made right, the right people are held accountable, etc.
And if allegations are indeed true (at this point seems likely), they used their dead mother to scam people, which is beyond disgusting. How can you do that to your mother ffs 😢
@@puddingway9231 they were scamming people while she was alive too. Golf events started in 2003. "Go forth Jirard, scam people in my name. " - Jirards moms last words.
I bet that those books are cooked, and those 600K of unspent donations have been existing only on paper for quite some time by now. It will be interesting to watch this house of cards collapse.
It's funny how everyone in that little circle of the internet runs into a scandal or is revealed to be doing something completely immoral, one popping up every few years.
After claiming for years that he donated the money and even right after the drama erupted, the last excuse I heard from him was that he hadn't donated the money yet because he was still looking for charities that were worthy of the donations. 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂ He still hasn't provided any proof he still has the money.
People just don't understand that you can just put anything on a tax document. That is not a bank statement. Nobody else knows where the money is expect for that family.
That money is gone. No one tell me , that Jirard didn't know. His whole family was involved. He knew!! He's done , I hope his channel crashes and burns! He deserves nothing less. My dad passed away last February, he suffered from dementia. This whole scam gets my blood boiling!
I'm truly sorry for your loss. These comments break my heart because I know it's like a wound being torn open for people in your situation. I wish you and your family the best. To see someone fighting for such a noble cause and turns out they're not fighting at all is just a slap in the face. I hate it.
8:46 Two out of six items not having a dollar sign in the price, while the rest do, bothers me way more than it should... I mean if they are stealing big money, they could have at least paid someone to proofread this stuff.
What's extra weird about them holding onto the accumulated funds, shown in the paperwork, is that they're just... holding on. Looks like they're not using funds for ''administrative expenses'' to pay themselves, they aren't investing the money, they haven't even donated $100 to another charity or org. The money just sits there. Why?
My theory so far, his dad started a scam to raise money directly for treating his mom, and then they just kept going. Something tells me that his dad might be the brainchild to the entire thing
No matter how you slice it this is bad. Even the most charitable thing for Jirard is that he learned about all of this fraud in 2022 and yet still lied about where the money is going to get donations in the livestream. That’s charity fraud. This is assuming he genuinely had no idea about any potential fraud and genuinely thought all the money was going into a bank account that’s not being touched. He still knowingly lied about it and that’s still illegal.
few years ago i asked on the livestream comments "I donated £25. Is there a way I can see where that dono went? Thnx." Reaction was the comments calling me racist, accusing me of saying Jalied is a thief cuz he's brown etc. When i then said "No i just want a reference number. You always get these in the UK to track it. Thanks" The admin then muted me indefinitely. Whenever i posted it on future videos, the comment was either removed within seconds or they had my profile muted so posts never showed.
When I was a kid I used to hide my sisters ice cream and stuff I wanted and if she didn’t ask what happened to it for a few weeks, I’d eat it. This is exactly how this seems to be going.
Even as a person who did not donate, I’m pissed at the situation. The people who said that he didn’t steal the money because it’s still there are morons. My biggest issue is that the all the money is worth less, and the wasted potential that money could have done. 100 dollars doesn’t buy as much as it did 10 years ago, so all the money has lost some value due to inflation. Not to mention the missed opportunities the money could have opened.
as an arab/middle easterner, seeing how the majority of attendees were middle eastern looking for the golf event, i can already tell theres a lot of shady shit going on
@@xtaticsr2041 Here's two tips for if you want to avoid being racist: - Don't assume "White Western" culture is the universal standard for all humans, and other peoples' can't have distinct and different cultures. - Don't assume ethnicities are hiveminds, and that people can't disagree with a culture they were raised in.
The whole idea of snipping a screenshot of your bank account doesn't work; you can easily edit the web code on any page and make *any* account appear to have any figure you want. It needs to be live or some legal statement to have any sort of legitimacy.
I believe that was only to prompt a reaction. They didn't even try to fake one cos it didn't cross their minds. They knew it wasn't there and they probably should not attempt to fake a statement There are people with channels that will find any discrepancy with a blatant forgery statement
I just finished watching that video, and it really is damning. Mudahar undershoots some of those numbers to give benefit of the doubt, but even with low lowballing those numbers, it's still awful
Just watched it as well. So far Muda & Karl have done some real good investigative journalism imo. There definitely needs to be an official investigation. I'm very much an "innocent UNLESS proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt" kind of person and lawyering up & following their advice is always the best thing to do, innocent or guilty imo. But the evidence shown so far make them look incredibly shady.
i mean honestly you should be very careful about most of these money charities if you don't know where the money is going. donating to your local sources is always the best and easiest option if you can
19:30 Just like the video says if you're tired of this issue, report it, they give a link to a government website where they can be reported so the government can check if this is real fraud and if it is, they can get handled by them.
Seems to me the Dad had a good thing going on donating money to his own Golf Tournament from PBD. Laundering 101. His sons may have followed suit. Audit time.
@@PaulieMcCoy Just because they're brown doesn't mean they're indian. 💀 And yeah stereotypes exist, does that mean I should treat every white dude as a potential m@ss 5h0ot3r?
Really bizarre that they could have done proper expenses and even set up a system where people got salaries for the work they put in. But, they just didn't. People just didn't understand that a tax filing is not a bank statement. They can just put whatever number they wanted into that tax sheet. That doesn't mean the money is actually in the bank account. Family run stuff is almost always a disaster from what I have seen personally. I would assume that money is just gone, used for some other purpose and is no longer liquid to the point where it can't be moved for years if ever.
I guess I just couldn't help but notice the video never bothered to inquire with the groups mentioned to find out if donations had or hadn't been made. I really don't know who this guy putting on these events is and I don't care but all this video did was throw out accusations and insinuations and never went any deeper than a small handful of public filings. Doesn't have access to their accounts, didn't get comments from the accused or from the sponsors or the groups meant to be getting donations, no insight from any tax expert or anything of the sort... So really not sure what I'm supposed to take away from it except that it's a one sided accusation and little else.
I grew up at a church where the preacher got arrested and sent to prison for embezzling ~$200k. Obviously this scam needs investigating, I'd say prison time if true as well.
The fact that he hasn’t responded in a little over 2 weeks says a lot! I know he has to go through lawyers about what to say and what not to say but 2 weeks is way too long and the longer it takes to respond is just making you look guiltier and guiltier by the day
@@DotDusk this. It might look bad, but whatever he would say now, it could be used against him. Exactly the same happend to the projared, who was crucified by the internet for being kiddyfiddler and staying silent after the accusations, only to find out half a year later that he just went to the court and proven that entire story was made up by the metoo "activists" and the only truth was his open relationship with his (ex-)wife, which was their private matter. IIRC he even got some compensation, but internet wasn't interested in reporting that fact. So as for Completionists, I'm not gonna accuse him or defend him (tbh I don't trust any charity organisations, because they're usually just a tax avoidance scam, if not worse), but I'd wait few months how this story is gonna develop before jumping to any conclusions.
Had he not misused the donated money over a 10 year period, he wouldn't need to lawyer up Now he needs to mitigate his involvement through a credible defense that his lawyer can work with His lawyer and any lawyer will always request their clients to remain silent as to not harm their defense If a lawyer is obtaining information about his clients involvement and it's deemed credible to put in front of a judge or jury the last thing he wants to hear is a contradictory statement made by his client afew months ago after he was told to be quiet I've heard and seen his excuses on this matter, through the Karl interview and his denial
On average, the US charity money that reaches the actual people that they need to reach is about 10%, the rest is filed under "spendings" either as a spending for organizing events where the people participating and promoting the events are paid huge ammounnts or by having crazy salaries for the staff of the organizations. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised since it's the rule, not the exception.
I am an auditor, not for the IRS but for a public company. Part of my duties is to audit donations made for the year and the concern is mostly just to make sure the donation was made and there is a receipt as proof. Companies like Coca Cola and Pepsi wouldn’t give two shits for an amount like $8k as it’s far too immaterial. To them, the donation was made and they have proof so they get the tax write off. Recouping the $8k would only be a concern if there is actual fraud charges but even then I can imagine it would just be written off in some way. I of course cannot directly speak for these companies but I know it would likely be towards the bottom list of priorities at the company I work for. I think the golf event might be under its own charity. It’s been operating before Open Hand was created so that would be the only explanation I can think of why the reported revenue does not match up. However, Open Hand would still have the same issues regardless. It’s hard to say unless there’s a way to clearly see the revenue breakdown. Another theory I have is they are just not filling their taxes correctly, whether it is on purpose or not (would still be fraud). They could be paying expenses for these events and subtracting those amounts from the revenue they are reporting. Expenses are very low which is why I think this.
The golf charity specifically says to make checks out to the Open Hand Foundation and lists the charity's address. They've also listed expenses for the golf event before and it came out to about $5k, nowhere near what it ran.
All the money lost to *expenses* every year for 9 years. Not to mention all the money gained and they kept from the golf thing, sponsorships, direct donations, subs, merchandise etc. They should pay it all back 100%.
This story is gathering a lot of steam but I appreciate anyone out there having a look into it and boosting it to viewers that might not have known about it. Thanks Asmongold.
I wouldn't want to be the team behind The Messenger and Sea of Stars right now. Two fantastic games that The Completionist hyped up big time, and for good reason. The lead was a part of Indieland a few times, and even showcased beta builds of the games there. He was always so supportive of their team and trying his best to sell it to everyone he could because he loved it so much. So now they're stuck in this position of someone they appreciated so much that they put him in their new game that just came out being faced with all this... It must be a dreadfully conflicting feeling. On the one hand, he did them good, on the other hand... All this.
To be fair, Mutahar and Karl DID state they didn't want to blow it up as a drama, as several drama-seeking people already started to make accusations' that wasn't completely proven yet and they asked those people to stop doing that...
the MOMENT he responded saying they were doing this for "Content" was the immediate red flag. its one thing to be defensive, its another to downplay the allegations being provided that are pretty clear cut painting you in a negative light and completely showing you to be a scumbag. the last thing you need to do is to confirm their allegations, especially when its so out of character. he didn't just mess up, he did EVERYTHING YOU SHOULD NEVER DO.
It's funny you mention this. When he said that, it felt weirdly defensive. Of course being defensive is normal, especially if hypothetically he did nothing wrong ... But to make that jump felt like a way to play the "I'm being bullied" card. I keep asking myself, "if I was in this position, what would my response have been?" But the issue here is I wouldn't have run another charity even after I found out about this giant debacle, let alone let it go on this long without some kind of transparency, so I can't.
Money sits in an account for 10 years while he skims the interest off the top as "administration fees". Money is technically untouched and because it's a "non profit" administration fees don't count as stealing... That's my take on this shit show.
I feels sorry for all the legit charity events out there, who probably now has to suffer from the hit to reputation of all charities this might bring! If you are hard set on donating to something, this situation likely won't change your mind about that, but a lot of donations come from people who might be on the fence, and only if they enjoy the event itself, might make them donate. So having someone spotlight a possibly fraudulent charity, might turn those people off from donating to other charities, simply because they might start questioning THEM as well...
From accounting experience mid size company with millions in revenue, this would literally take 10 mins with bank account access. In my opinion I believe the money is gone. Fraud.
I wasn't a devoted fan, but Jirard's content was always cool to see. I considered him a cool and nice guy overall. This must be one of the influencer scandals that has disappointed me the most
There's a program by the IRS where you report fraud and if it's found to be true, you get a kickback. This is one of the few cases that need a reporting
This is why you should always donate directly to the people it's going to... and if the content creator that's hosting the charity event uses any other method just don't donate
This man is speaking the truth I kind of get tired of RUclipsrs doing the justice like Trilogy media scammer payback Etc it should not be these people's jobs to basically help people not lose their money it should be governments being more restricted about scammers
Did anyone see the amount of effort he put into buying ever eShop game including DLC. Its ridiculous he wasn't capable of that when it came to donating the money from his charity.
The other thing that Karl is missing, is that this money is sitting in an account or is invested and earning interest. There is nothing in the tax forms showing the interest its incurred. It's been years and thats not a little bit of money.
the worst part is that im pretty sure this whole scheme was created by his father, and enforced when he started to see his sons channels bring in money...
@@sssolventless7105You are "pretty sure" that this was created and then enforced by the father... And your source is... what? That you made it the eff up? No, you're not pretty sure, you're wildly speculating based on something you've heard somebody else suggest probably. Just stop, it's cringe. Also, doesn't even matter. Whether he's the mastermind or guilty of participation doesn't make any of this any better or worse. It's just bad. That's not even relevant in the slightest.
It’s the dad being dodgy, and Jirard and Jacques are trying to cover for him (pure speculation and opinion). I think Jirard and his siblings only have their dad left and really miss their mum and want to honour her, and the dad is taking advantage of everyone. That’s my prediction and guess.
Has the benefit of the doubt dried up yet? Seems like it's getting close to that. It'll be interesting whenever accountants get ahold of the information, cause there's so much about this that simply doesn't add up.
tbh I don't trust any charity organisations, because they're usually just a tax avoidance scam (if not worse), but I agree we should wait and see how this story develops. I don't really care about the Completionist, but anything could happend there - he could be the con artist, he can be innocent, but he could also be the victim of his own predatory family (I can imagine scenairo where he just made the content and someone else was responsible for dealing with finances). Also as much as it might look bad, I'm not suprised he's staying silent, because whatever he would say now, it could be used against him. Exactly the same happend to the projared, who was crucified by the internet for being kiddyfiddler and staying silent after the accusations, only to find out half a year later that he just went to the court and proven that entire story was made up by the metoo "activists" and the only truth was his open relationship with his (ex-)wife, which was their private matter. IIRC he even got some compensation, but internet wasn't interested in reporting that fact. so, lets wait and see.
Could it be possible that the golf tournament donated the money to indieland to drastically increase the money raised thus increasing the media coverage rather than directly to openhand? Which is why there isn't much change from the year they showed both revenue streams to the next year where indieland was the only one shown.
Staying silent is exactly what they should be doing. They don't owe you their complete financials just because of some online accusation. If the IRS deems it so, then they'll talk to the IRS. Otherwise, these are just accusations. Nothing else.
Its worse than you think. Its recently come to light that many documented donations and sponsorships didnt make it into the officials filings. Basically his charity fraud might be a multimillion dollar source of tax-free income for him.
The fact the money still isn’t donated says it all. Clearly the money isn’t there or they’re trying to figure out a way to keep all the money without donating. Either way there’s no more excuses.
They aren't conspiring how to keep the money, that was done 9 years ago Imagine just being $10-50k in donations over 10years. Easy fix, take out a loan, stick it in an account and show proof But how you do that for $655k 😂 Get those lawyers boys!
Red flag for me for a golf CHARITY tournament is an unknown foundation...with little to no word of mouth globally is asking for 750$ INDIVIDUAL participation fee. This also unknown foundation has 5000$ laying around to GIFT to someone for making a hole and one? I get you can get an insurance company to front those bills, but comeon that is INCREDIBLY shaky for people to give a good chunk of money to.
They may have donated his mothers body for research at a university and money when they didn't have to report it. But still pretty damning evidence shown. And Mutahars new video just shows how bad it may be.
21:27 and that is way less than what was actually raised according to mutahars video he is only accounting for part of it, so there is probably closer to 2m missing
"I'm sick of things that are actual crimes and real fraud being treated as Internet drama"
This. Asmongold said it. Thank you.
its insane that even muta in the 1st video said the same thing but i guess some people dont listen
so true, real CRIME is not a drama
It is internet drama. Walmart does this everyday but everyone is cool with it.
Small RUclipsr though “let’s get em”
@@nofleshspared Are you out of your mind? This criminal stole 600k+ from CHARITY and your best excuse is "whataboutism"? I'm not even going to entertain the lie that wallmart commits 600k+ charity fraud everyday because it doesn't matter and it doesn't change the fact that what he did was wrong, so don't even think about moving the goalposts.
Ohhh, poor little! He just has 1.6 Million subscribers! He's practically a baby! Who cares about the fans, who care about the people in need who were supposed to get the money.. My para-social relationship is more important!
@@nofleshsparedThere's a difference from a giant ass corporation that people in food deserts rely on...
And then there are individuals that can be held accountable from their own actions. Use your brain, seriously.
I’m all but certain Jirard and Open Hand have gotten lawyers involved at this point and have been strongly advised to stay silent. Pretty much the first thing any lawyer will say when defending you is to shut up. Especially if you’re guilty.
You hit the nail on the head, this is absolutely what is happening
He specifically stated in the Mutahar/Jobst discord interview that he was doing said interview against the advice of his lawyers.
Which presumably got him a lot of flak from said lawyers after the interview, especially when things blew up.
he's shut off social media for 3 weeks stayed radio silent probably AFTER getting consultation from a lawyer.
ESPECIALLY if you're innocent...lets not get it twisted...
they also tell you to shutup if youre not guilty
This is what happens when you include family members in your business. My first company, a small cleaning business, included my uncle (an accountant) and my cousin (my manager). Basically my uncle was misreporting earnings, cousin was lying about working and basically stealing money, and we lost several contractors and businesses because of their poor management. Absolute nightmare, only work with professionals or put cameras everywhere.
Never get into business with family or friends.
I dont think thats always the case. It seems your family is just unsuited.
lmao I looked for this comment. Worked security for 12 years. All went downhill when it became a family business, of course. Every dollar that was intended to go into payroll got sucked out and given to some camgirl and it imploded shortly afterwards. Meanwhile I'm working 18--20 hour shifts because the other guard was a relative who just decided to sleep in most days. One hour commute to work both ways. Love is stealing from your family and making sure they sleep for less than 2 hours a night.
I donated to this over a few years (totaling 500 dollars) because i believed in what The Completionist was doing, I believed his sob story and felt that this was worth me giving money to a good cause......and while the "cause" is good (donating to fight dementia), I have lost all respect for Jirard and feel beyond cheated. I don't care what weird, back alley way people have in defending him, this is complete shit and there is NO excuse for holding the funds for 10 years.
Ppl like him make it hard to trust even things like st. Jude children or Ronald McDonald house and it's a damn shame or the V foundation. Imo these are legit I'm positive there are others. Just pointing out this scummy stuff detracts from donors which deducts the amount of research to be done.... I'm rambling I'm sorry. This gets me heated man
The funny thing is I never could get into the completionst because how often jirard used sob stories and victimhood. I would pop in to watch a video every few years and sure enough he was throwing in sob stories. And the thing was it never felt genuine. It felt like he wanted my sympathy and you can read the comments of people eating it up.
This dude is a professional victim.
@@Livvvid I haven't watched many of his videos just a games, but never noticed this with him. Granted I never really payed attention. Looking back tho you are absolutely right. This guy sickens me
@@Justanotherguy83 I only ever watched the core series videos and maybe I got lucky and landed on the videos where he did it (he didnt do it every video).
But if you can ever find one where he does it just pay attention how he physically and emotional tries to sell it. He gets all puppy dog face and pouty, ive only ever seen that in kids trying to manipulate their parents for a toy at the store or something. Then he'll immediately segway into ".....and thats why todays sponser...."
Its like the dude doesnt even respect himself and his supposed trauma but im supposed to?
I never trusted him because he's not of my ethnic group.
For a completionist he made sure not to complete the task of donating they money.
Nice.
Well, he likely did complete lining his own pockets...
@@Irish_Wristwatch101 He just wanted a real life platinum trophy!
He could set a wage. When I use to go to church, the preachers wage was $80k plus housing, food, travel, and health care. Over 6 figures. Most of the "tithe" went to him and the building upkeep.
Hes probably trying to complete every crime in history
Not donating the money for the purpose it was collected is fraud. Misappropriation of funds. Even if the money is still there, it's still a crime.
Whats the time limit for donating the funds?
@@xenn4985 They should had been donated immediately at the first chance they got after claiming they were going to certain charities. You don't get the benefit of the doubt after taking it away for 10 years while admitting to know about this for at least 2. It's theft, they didn't do what they had to do, there's no excuse for that.
@@xenn4985Doing it before saying you've donated it. Which Jirard has said, so the time limit has passed.
the long con is to hold it for so long that their charity could continuously shave into it with 'administrative costs' until it was all gone
just do what charity influencers do. say its for charity and donate just 1% to charity. 100% legal because they never said how much of it is actually going to charity.
Imagine using the memory of your dead mother to commit fraud. This is beyond disgusting.
Hey, maybe mother was a fraud too. Then all of this would be an ingenious way to celebrate her memory
Yup. So fraud is already bad. Fraud against a charity is ultra bad.. like good luck talking yourself out of that but a charity in your own DEAD MOTHERS name??? That’s pretty much the only way it could have gotten any worse….. and now we know it’s all true… dang.
A little helping hand from the grave
So True its like pretending to have câncer and ask for donations... This is the same level of disgusting
Not just her memory, her body. In the emails, the brother tried to justify it wasn't fraud by saying that they donated body parts before creating the open hands foundation, so they already made a donation to help dementia research
I have learned that "pledge" and "donate" can be used interchangeably. Thanks Amber!
After watching SomeOrdinaryGamer's latest video, I'm left with the distinct suspicion that Girard is likely trying to cover up either misfeasance or outright financial malfeasance by a family member.
Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if his dad is the mastermind here and he's trying to cover for him and whoever else. He's just as responsible obviously but he was basically born into this stuff lol
I had a hunch that his brother is stealing the money and Jirard truly was blindsided. I'm not defending Jirard tho. Clearly he is either incompetent or guilty.
the long con is to hold it for so long that their charity could continuously shave into it with 'administrative costs' until it was all gone
I get the opposite feeling. That Jirard is the one stealing the money and letting his family hang for it. For all we know the golf charity actually gave the money to charity before open hand was founded.
@@YukoValis Certainly a possibility. That, or the father had been stealing the money from the golf tournies long before Open Hand.
The problem with when interviewers go hard on these people, they respond by hanging up or walking out. Sometimes, going easier makes them open up more, and they give up more info.
While normally that's true, i think this approach is more beneficial in this circumstance. This open-confrontational interview will reveal en masse the obvious deceit for those people that is not really up to date/wanted to donate, and shut down any blind defenders and white knights. If the completionist wants to hide more things, well, the official investigation will dig an even deeper hole for him, like really, will he/they hide informations when there's literally investigators hounding, and anymore hiding will result in loss by the law?
@@aereonexapprentice7205 open confrontation is a terrible approach, you don't want someone looking in to think you're bullying someone for information. the situation doesn't matter to the internet what matters is the way its portrayed and at the point they interviewed him it seemed likely it was a negligence case rather then fraud. Now its full on fraud + illegal dmca takedowns.
You have to literally walk on eggshells to get anything out of people like this. You have to be their friend first and then when their guard goes down you make the damaging questions. Your line of questioning has to be firm but friendly and usually they’ll spill it all.
@@aereonexapprentice7205 It's always better to go easy and build rapport for a criminal to open up, trying to make it look like the interviewer is their friend until the time comes. It's a common tactic used by detectives in interrogations to make suspects open up and admit guilt on murders/rapes, etc
@@aereonexapprentice7205 Going hard really only accomplishes two things. Makes you look/feel tougher and gets them to be defensive. The difference between a youtube interviewer and an actual criminal investigation is an officer can detain you vs in a voluntary interview if you push too hard you are just getting hung up on. Which maybe in the court of public opinion wins some brownie points but it doesn't lead to any information to solve the problem. The more talking the person does the better.
I wouldn't trust Jirard with a chocolate bar
LMAO, the bounties are empty!! 😂😂😂
dude your chocolate bar is still there, its just being held in his stomach.
@@ClayMannThen it will be safely deposited in a secure “facility” to be off shored.
@@ClayMann😭💀
To be fair I wouldn't have trusted him with one before this. At least back then I knew where it was going.
They 100% spent the money and didn’t think anyone would actually look if they were donating it.
Correct. Probably in the first year or two, you let the money sit. Just as a caution. After that, no one is asking, no one inquiring, that money is going to then be spent on whatever they want. 10 years, you wouldn't even be worried until Karl came knocking
@@cagejonny704 exactly
I think they just got used to just pocketing the money and nobody noticing.
@@cagejonny704If its anything like in Canada, i really don't understand how they managed to do it for this long. I work for a charity organization and every single year we have people who show up and do a complete audit of our finances. For like literaly weeks and they will look at every penny, every tax receipt, and every transaction made during the year. People think its eazy to fraud using charity but trust me it isnt.
I think they spent the unreported donations and were holding the reported donations because they hadn't worked yet out how to spend those. It would have required siphoning them off to a sham charity org they controlled.
If his charity is registered as a non-profit, literally anyone can request an audit be done on it. That could show where the money is/has gone.
Did you not watch the whole video. He puts a call to action at the end and even provides a link to where to file a complaint
@@ryanekstrom209this is youtube. I thought you knew people comment first and watch after
He was only excepting personal checks. He could have put it in any account even his personal account or a family members account or a friends account or put it in a account that only has a number. All of would be untraceable especially just a numbered account.
@@naughtydreems9548 all of that is 100% traceable, lol. banks have been using paper a lot longer than the internet.. paper fraud may be easy to slide under the radar at first, but if someone even glances in your direction, you are FUCKED
6:10 so, can you check it for us? I'm not a US citizen, I don't think I can and be able to navigate US stuff
"Bits, donations, shirt. Buy the shirt, buy the coin, and buy the games all of its going to charity."
Charity is the name of his bank account. He didn't lie. You just misunderstood silly.
The scale of the problem where people who run charity organisations become inexplicably and unreasonably wealthy is not on most people’s radar. I don’t know how this enormous legal blackhole exists but it is there and it is an incredibly deceitful evil. I once worked for a billionaire whose only professional descriptor was that he ran a charitable organisation. This was an immediate red flag and I didn’t stay there longer than I had to.
the long con is to hold it for so long that their charity could continuously shave into it with 'administrative costs' until it was all gone
That's because it's a business. And they themselves are not volunteers. I understand the predicament, but what is the alternative really. It's a labor for them and it's just that they're being paid for their labor.
In case some people don't know, charity organizations take a portion of the donated money for their own (iirc, it's closer to or more than 50%!). This is used to pay the workers who work for the company. Now, if you think it as $10 donation, they take $5, this seems reasonable enough, right? But what if someone donates $10000? $5000 straight up goes to the organization, and now we might go, "what?"
As I said, "predicament".
That's how all Charities operate. The difference being most legitimate charities at least give 2-5% of their income to various causes. UNHCR is one of the most accountable charities in the world owing to its multinational ownership structure- between fucking kids in Haiti, they give away over 5% of donations annually to various scammer NGO's, 95% goes into administration. Most charities give away less than 3%, and most of that goes to associated companies.@@yofyo
@@andrewyp6724 But that's not what OP described. People who make themselves incredibly rich running a charity are "paid for their labor" the same way CEOs pay themselves $50M/yr. It's exploitation and should be illegal.
@@andrewyp6724 many non-charitable organisations are definitely not a business. I worked for two years in an NCO which was very well funded by both private donors and the Evangelical Church. Let's say every single Euro was accounted for and had to be invested into the work we were doing. The salaries were good, but they were not affected by the donations in any way. Basically the donors could ask at any moment what happened with their donations and the company could show the result. If it were ever found out that any money landed in a private pocket by anyone in the leadership, that person would land in jail straight away. But the company is structured in such a way that that would not even be possible at all simply because of how the accounting works - company's funds do not ever belong to the CEOs. I am talking about Germany here. Interestingly enough, there is no word for charity as an organisation in the German language. If it is officially an NCO, then stealing the donation money is a crime.
Definitely some fraud charges should be filed and that money should be put to something good or returned to the people
You really think this dude still have the money?
@@nakit_muusilla Yes... the money they reported minus the "operating expenses" is still there. So you can still get the majority of the money back.
Someone on Karl's video pointed out that The paper filings for OHF use a fake address based on a church with a similarly names charity that helps at risk teens. It seems like such an intentional mistake to muddy their trail
@@n3v3rforgott3n9 He claims that. He didn't prove it. He needs to show bank accounts as proof. He hasn't shown anything yet.
@@n3v3rforgott3n9 Unless it's already gone to pay the lawyers.
I reported the Open Hand Foundation to the California Attorney General on their web page for reporting charities and they got back to me telling me they're aware of the situation. Continue to submit reports, report to the IRS, if they are flooded with hundreds or thousands of reports they will have to do a deep dive government investigation.
In these circumstances, I agree 100%. The more noise people make through legit channels, the more things can be made right, the right people are held accountable, etc.
I'm not American. Can I report Jirard anyway?
@@RedPill780 yes absolutely, without an address (which isn’t necessary) they just won’t mail an acknowledgement letter, which is totally fine
An entire family of scammers. I guess scamming just runs in the family
And if allegations are indeed true (at this point seems likely), they used their dead mother to scam people, which is beyond disgusting. How can you do that to your mother ffs 😢
@@puddingway9231at this point I hope he also lied about his mother illness. Probably make the situation less fucked
@@puddingway9231 they were scamming people while she was alive too. Golf events started in 2003. "Go forth Jirard, scam people in my name. " - Jirards moms last words.
@@puddingway9231Tbf, if someone is dead, I don't think you can do anything to them short of desecrating their body.
Is the family business 😂
I bet that those books are cooked, and those 600K of unspent donations have been existing only on paper for quite some time by now. It will be interesting to watch this house of cards collapse.
It's funny how everyone in that little circle of the internet runs into a scandal or is revealed to be doing something completely immoral, one popping up every few years.
People gonna people
I'm not too aware of who these people are. What circle are you referring to?
No it's funnier cuz the people that are being actually doing it are the ones that always stand on those moral high grounds just goes to show you
@@TheKingOfSpain Lame justification.
@@FindTheTruthBeforeTheEndpeople
After claiming for years that he donated the money and even right after the drama erupted, the last excuse I heard from him was that he hadn't donated the money yet because he was still looking for charities that were worthy of the donations. 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂ He still hasn't provided any proof he still has the money.
It makes no difference. It's still fraud.
People just don't understand that you can just put anything on a tax document. That is not a bank statement. Nobody else knows where the money is expect for that family.
The problem isn't just that the money that is there isn't donated. A lot of the money donated never entered that bank account in the first place
10 years... 10 fucking years. This man should've found like 3 good, actual trustworthy charities!
That money is gone and his career is over
That money is gone.
No one tell me , that Jirard didn't know.
His whole family was involved.
He knew!!
He's done , I hope his channel crashes and burns! He deserves nothing less.
My dad passed away last February, he suffered from dementia.
This whole scam gets my blood boiling!
Hope you're well, my condolensces
Sorry my english is kinda bad
@@rickyterheege20duitseherde36
It's fine bro your English is good 👍 Probably better than mine & I'm a native speaker
I think his RUclips channel dying will be the least of his concerns
I'm truly sorry for your loss. These comments break my heart because I know it's like a wound being torn open for people in your situation. I wish you and your family the best.
To see someone fighting for such a noble cause and turns out they're not fighting at all is just a slap in the face. I hate it.
hello (sorry for my band inglish)
8:46 Two out of six items not having a dollar sign in the price, while the rest do, bothers me way more than it should... I mean if they are stealing big money, they could have at least paid someone to proofread this stuff.
Can't be worst than the time they wrote Dementia "Dimentia" on one of their boards at 6:35
Mutahar's newest video really made me realize just how bad the "charity" is. It's bad
What's extra weird about them holding onto the accumulated funds, shown in the paperwork, is that they're just... holding on. Looks like they're not using funds for ''administrative expenses'' to pay themselves, they aren't investing the money, they haven't even donated $100 to another charity or org. The money just sits there. Why?
Y'know, I massively appreciate and applaud Asmon for watching Karl's sponsored segment and also not shitting on it or making jokes.
My theory so far, his dad started a scam to raise money directly for treating his mom, and then they just kept going. Something tells me that his dad might be the brainchild to the entire thing
No matter how you slice it this is bad. Even the most charitable thing for Jirard is that he learned about all of this fraud in 2022 and yet still lied about where the money is going to get donations in the livestream. That’s charity fraud.
This is assuming he genuinely had no idea about any potential fraud and genuinely thought all the money was going into a bank account that’s not being touched. He still knowingly lied about it and that’s still illegal.
few years ago i asked on the livestream comments "I donated £25. Is there a way I can see where that dono went? Thnx." Reaction was the comments calling me racist, accusing me of saying Jalied is a thief cuz he's brown etc. When i then said "No i just want a reference number. You always get these in the UK to track it. Thanks" The admin then muted me indefinitely. Whenever i posted it on future videos, the comment was either removed within seconds or they had my profile muted so posts never showed.
I love how one of Karl's Patreon Members is called "Billy Mitchell" lmao.
When I was a kid I used to hide my sisters ice cream and stuff I wanted and if she didn’t ask what happened to it for a few weeks, I’d eat it.
This is exactly how this seems to be going.
How did you hide the ice cream?
just put it under something else or in the bottom/ back of the freezer@@YeOldeMachina
I just say it´s funny how asmo talks about that and 600k is nothing compaired to 2,6 Million
Even as a person who did not donate, I’m pissed at the situation. The people who said that he didn’t steal the money because it’s still there are morons.
My biggest issue is that the all the money is worth less, and the wasted potential that money could have done.
100 dollars doesn’t buy as much as it did 10 years ago, so all the money has lost some value due to inflation.
Not to mention the missed opportunities the money could have opened.
as an arab/middle easterner, seeing how the majority of attendees were middle eastern looking for the golf event, i can already tell theres a lot of shady shit going on
Stereotype much?
@@xtaticsr2041Says the white guy to an Arab
@@xtaticsr2041 i guess you could say that, im just speaking from experience...
@@xtaticsr2041 Here's two tips for if you want to avoid being racist:
- Don't assume "White Western" culture is the universal standard for all humans, and other peoples' can't have distinct and different cultures.
- Don't assume ethnicities are hiveminds, and that people can't disagree with a culture they were raised in.
It's the amber Heard technique. Guys... .They pledged the money. It is synonymous with donating, give me a break yo
The Sea of Stars devs are gonna have to patch the name of the character based on Jirard to "The CONstructionist"
This is disgusting, the fact that he used his mother as a front is deplorable.
Coffeezilla needs to get in on this.
just imagine if the money was invested to ftx
The whole idea of snipping a screenshot of your bank account doesn't work; you can easily edit the web code on any page and make *any* account appear to have any figure you want. It needs to be live or some legal statement to have any sort of legitimacy.
I believe that was only to prompt a reaction. They didn't even try to fake one cos it didn't cross their minds. They knew it wasn't there and they probably should not attempt to fake a statement
There are people with channels that will find any discrepancy with a blatant forgery statement
If Jirard can't be bothered to complete his donation, he might as well complete his prison sentence.
Wow, if corporate sponsors are involved, they are going to send their bloodhounds at these frauds.
I love how Asmon went from "I dont know guys" to "Holy crap this needs to be investigated" in just a few minutes.
character development speedrun any%
@@derekrequiem4359 Aaaaaand time!
Muda just released another video also proving reporting discrepancies. No wonder they layered up and have been silent.
I just finished watching that video, and it really is damning. Mudahar undershoots some of those numbers to give benefit of the doubt, but even with low lowballing those numbers, it's still awful
Just watched it as well. So far Muda & Karl have done some real good investigative journalism imo. There definitely needs to be an official investigation. I'm very much an "innocent UNLESS proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt" kind of person and lawyering up & following their advice is always the best thing to do, innocent or guilty imo. But the evidence shown so far make them look incredibly shady.
A lot of people are layering up for the winter since it's getting colder. I myself am about to put on a sweater.
Karl Jobst out there- fighting scammers like Batman fighting crimes
I'll never trust any public figure ever again. This was the final straw lol. Used to think so highly of The Completionist.
People are always different on camera
Influencers put on a mask. Never assume you know the person on camera.
My final straw was when he admited he often had poeple helping him to grind complete the games he made videos about
Why? Because he acted goofy and nice?
i mean honestly you should be very careful about most of these money charities if you don't know where the money is going. donating to your local sources is always the best and easiest option if you can
Of course they are lying on their filings. It's like step 1 of this kind of fraud.
19:30 Just like the video says if you're tired of this issue, report it, they give a link to a government website where they can be reported so the government can check if this is real fraud and if it is, they can get handled by them.
Seems to me the Dad had a good thing going on donating money to his own Golf Tournament from PBD. Laundering 101. His sons may have followed suit. Audit time.
No accountant or auditor would've signed off on that
Well, what are they... Indian? I mean, stereotypes exist for a reason and all that...
@@PaulieMcCoyno their not Indian 😂
@@PaulieMcCoy Just because they're brown doesn't mean they're indian. 💀 And yeah stereotypes exist, does that mean I should treat every white dude as a potential m@ss 5h0ot3r?
@@DD-vp7fz not if you do your own accounting.
Really bizarre that they could have done proper expenses and even set up a system where people got salaries for the work they put in. But, they just didn't. People just didn't understand that a tax filing is not a bank statement. They can just put whatever number they wanted into that tax sheet. That doesn't mean the money is actually in the bank account. Family run stuff is almost always a disaster from what I have seen personally. I would assume that money is just gone, used for some other purpose and is no longer liquid to the point where it can't be moved for years if ever.
I guess I just couldn't help but notice the video never bothered to inquire with the groups mentioned to find out if donations had or hadn't been made. I really don't know who this guy putting on these events is and I don't care but all this video did was throw out accusations and insinuations and never went any deeper than a small handful of public filings. Doesn't have access to their accounts, didn't get comments from the accused or from the sponsors or the groups meant to be getting donations, no insight from any tax expert or anything of the sort... So really not sure what I'm supposed to take away from it except that it's a one sided accusation and little else.
I grew up at a church where the preacher got arrested and sent to prison for embezzling ~$200k. Obviously this scam needs investigating, I'd say prison time if true as well.
This were I learn about donate... Preacher in the hood.. Riding on 28rims... No heat in the church😂😂
The fact that he hasn’t responded in a little over 2 weeks says a lot! I know he has to go through lawyers about what to say and what not to say but 2 weeks is way too long and the longer it takes to respond is just making you look guiltier and guiltier by the day
I know it is trash. But even if he is innocent, he shouldn't talk to anyone without his lawyer.
@@DotDusk this. It might look bad, but whatever he would say now, it could be used against him. Exactly the same happend to the projared, who was crucified by the internet for being kiddyfiddler and staying silent after the accusations, only to find out half a year later that he just went to the court and proven that entire story was made up by the metoo "activists" and the only truth was his open relationship with his (ex-)wife, which was their private matter. IIRC he even got some compensation, but internet wasn't interested in reporting that fact.
So as for Completionists, I'm not gonna accuse him or defend him (tbh I don't trust any charity organisations, because they're usually just a tax avoidance scam, if not worse), but I'd wait few months how this story is gonna develop before jumping to any conclusions.
Had he not misused the donated money over a 10 year period, he wouldn't need to lawyer up
Now he needs to mitigate his involvement through a credible defense that his lawyer can work with
His lawyer and any lawyer will always request their clients to remain silent as to not harm their defense
If a lawyer is obtaining information about his clients involvement and it's deemed credible to put in front of a judge or jury the last thing he wants to hear is a contradictory statement made by his client afew months ago after he was told to be quiet
I've heard and seen his excuses on this matter, through the Karl interview and his denial
The dude is probably not in the country anymore
On average, the US charity money that reaches the actual people that they need to reach is about 10%, the rest is filed under "spendings" either as a spending for organizing events where the people participating and promoting the events are paid huge ammounnts or by having crazy salaries for the staff of the organizations. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised since it's the rule, not the exception.
The money is not there, I promise you it is all gone.
Who? Mike jones!
the long con is to hold it for so long that their charity could continuously shave into it with 'administrative costs' until it was all gone
Send in Coffeezilla
I am an auditor, not for the IRS but for a public company. Part of my duties is to audit donations made for the year and the concern is mostly just to make sure the donation was made and there is a receipt as proof. Companies like Coca Cola and Pepsi wouldn’t give two shits for an amount like $8k as it’s far too immaterial. To them, the donation was made and they have proof so they get the tax write off. Recouping the $8k would only be a concern if there is actual fraud charges but even then I can imagine it would just be written off in some way. I of course cannot directly speak for these companies but I know it would likely be towards the bottom list of priorities at the company I work for.
I think the golf event might be under its own charity. It’s been operating before Open Hand was created so that would be the only explanation I can think of why the reported revenue does not match up. However, Open Hand would still have the same issues regardless. It’s hard to say unless there’s a way to clearly see the revenue breakdown.
Another theory I have is they are just not filling their taxes correctly, whether it is on purpose or not (would still be fraud). They could be paying expenses for these events and subtracting those amounts from the revenue they are reporting. Expenses are very low which is why I think this.
The golf charity specifically says to make checks out to the Open Hand Foundation and lists the charity's address. They've also listed expenses for the golf event before and it came out to about $5k, nowhere near what it ran.
RIP The Completionist
Indeed.
His greed may have just completed him.
All the money lost to *expenses* every year for 9 years. Not to mention all the money gained and they kept from the golf thing, sponsorships, direct donations, subs, merchandise etc. They should pay it all back 100%.
Karl Jobst is an absolute legend.
Billy Mitchell downvoted you
@@PaulieMcCoy Silly Bitchell.
Because we know he always searches for his own name.
People need to file lawsuits to get the gov attention.
Soy!!1 maybe daddy guvuhment will fix it all and make the bad people go away!!1
This story is gathering a lot of steam but I appreciate anyone out there having a look into it and boosting it to viewers that might not have known about it. Thanks Asmongold.
It's even worse. Jamie Lee Curtis donated close to $100K herself over the years. They don't even take into account the subs, merch, and golf money.
I wouldn't want to be the team behind The Messenger and Sea of Stars right now. Two fantastic games that The Completionist hyped up big time, and for good reason. The lead was a part of Indieland a few times, and even showcased beta builds of the games there. He was always so supportive of their team and trying his best to sell it to everyone he could because he loved it so much. So now they're stuck in this position of someone they appreciated so much that they put him in their new game that just came out being faced with all this... It must be a dreadfully conflicting feeling. On the one hand, he did them good, on the other hand... All this.
To be fair, Mutahar and Karl DID state they didn't want to blow it up as a drama, as several drama-seeking people already started to make accusations' that wasn't completely proven yet and they asked those people to stop doing that...
hahaha no we all know what they say and what they meant isn't the same thing. But either way as long as we get to end of things it'll be fine.
Hope there's a hell of a lot more proof than what's in this video, because it's none at this point.
the MOMENT he responded saying they were doing this for "Content" was the immediate red flag. its one thing to be defensive, its another to downplay the allegations being provided that are pretty clear cut painting you in a negative light and completely showing you to be a scumbag. the last thing you need to do is to confirm their allegations, especially when its so out of character.
he didn't just mess up, he did EVERYTHING YOU SHOULD NEVER DO.
It's funny you mention this. When he said that, it felt weirdly defensive. Of course being defensive is normal, especially if hypothetically he did nothing wrong ... But to make that jump felt like a way to play the "I'm being bullied" card.
I keep asking myself, "if I was in this position, what would my response have been?" But the issue here is I wouldn't have run another charity even after I found out about this giant debacle, let alone let it go on this long without some kind of transparency, so I can't.
Money sits in an account for 10 years while he skims the interest off the top as "administration fees".
Money is technically untouched and because it's a "non profit" administration fees don't count as stealing... That's my take on this shit show.
I feels sorry for all the legit charity events out there, who probably now has to suffer from the hit to reputation of all charities this might bring!
If you are hard set on donating to something, this situation likely won't change your mind about that, but a lot of donations come from people who might be on the fence, and only if they enjoy the event itself, might make them donate.
So having someone spotlight a possibly fraudulent charity, might turn those people off from donating to other charities, simply because they might start questioning THEM as well...
Let's calm down everyone, Jirard is just being true to his name and completing his Scam sidequest.
Achievement unlocked
Scam Artist
From accounting experience mid size company with millions in revenue, this would literally take 10 mins with bank account access.
In my opinion I believe the money is gone. Fraud.
I wasn't a devoted fan, but Jirard's content was always cool to see. I considered him a cool and nice guy overall. This must be one of the influencer scandals that has disappointed me the most
They haven't given the money to charity because they don't have it anymore. That money is gone
The fact that he's using his dead mom's name to scam people has earned this dude a special place in hell
There's a program by the IRS where you report fraud and if it's found to be true, you get a kickback. This is one of the few cases that need a reporting
This is why you should always donate directly to the people it's going to... and if the content creator that's hosting the charity event uses any other method just don't donate
It's nice asmongold doesn't skip the sponsored ads of the RUclips video.
this is actually pretty common place in a lot of charities
Charities being tax havens is old news
@@xervislane770 this isn't about tax avoidance. jirard is allegedly cooking the books of his charity to skim off the top. fraud and embezzlement.
This man is speaking the truth I kind of get tired of RUclipsrs doing the justice like Trilogy media scammer payback Etc it should not be these people's jobs to basically help people not lose their money it should be governments being more restricted about scammers
You have to report them. That's how it works. They have no way of knowing unless people report it
For better or worse the internet is still a bit of a wild west, matter such as these often wont get fixed if we expect others to fix them for us.
Jirard associating with Frosk was the first red flag.
20:00 "Sea of Stars" is already a garbage game which had a 4th wall-breaking character for no reason and then they do THIS to their game?
The worst part is he used his dead mom as inspiration for the charity.. I wonder how she would react to this
The money in the account is only 1/3 mabe 1/2 "at most" the total, and the other remainder was not reported and kept.
Did anyone see the amount of effort he put into buying ever eShop game including DLC. Its ridiculous he wasn't capable of that when it came to donating the money from his charity.
The other thing that Karl is missing, is that this money is sitting in an account or is invested and earning interest. There is nothing in the tax forms showing the interest its incurred. It's been years and thats not a little bit of money.
They spent a big amount of the donations. Now he is trying to retrieve it somehow but they spent too much.
the worst part is that im pretty sure this whole scheme was created by his father, and enforced when he started to see his sons channels bring in money...
@@sssolventless7105You are "pretty sure" that this was created and then enforced by the father... And your source is... what? That you made it the eff up?
No, you're not pretty sure, you're wildly speculating based on something you've heard somebody else suggest probably. Just stop, it's cringe. Also, doesn't even matter. Whether he's the mastermind or guilty of participation doesn't make any of this any better or worse. It's just bad. That's not even relevant in the slightest.
@@RiskOfBaer source: just trust me bro
It’s the dad being dodgy, and Jirard and Jacques are trying to cover for him (pure speculation and opinion). I think Jirard and his siblings only have their dad left and really miss their mum and want to honour her, and the dad is taking advantage of everyone. That’s my prediction and guess.
Has the benefit of the doubt dried up yet? Seems like it's getting close to that.
It'll be interesting whenever accountants get ahold of the information, cause there's so much about this that simply doesn't add up.
To be honest I don’t see how someone can accidentally misplace $60,000. The only reasonable conclusion is that it was not used for charitable purposes
@@cmantheninjayou missed a 0 there
the long con is to hold it for so long that their charity could continuously shave into it with 'administrative costs' until it was all gone
tbh I don't trust any charity organisations, because they're usually just a tax avoidance scam (if not worse), but I agree we should wait and see how this story develops. I don't really care about the Completionist, but anything could happend there - he could be the con artist, he can be innocent, but he could also be the victim of his own predatory family (I can imagine scenairo where he just made the content and someone else was responsible for dealing with finances).
Also as much as it might look bad, I'm not suprised he's staying silent, because whatever he would say now, it could be used against him. Exactly the same happend to the projared, who was crucified by the internet for being kiddyfiddler and staying silent after the accusations, only to find out half a year later that he just went to the court and proven that entire story was made up by the metoo "activists" and the only truth was his open relationship with his (ex-)wife, which was their private matter. IIRC he even got some compensation, but internet wasn't interested in reporting that fact.
so, lets wait and see.
@@namenight7158 I think they were talking about a single check from the charity event. The golf charity raised about $60K a year and just vanished.
Could it be possible that the golf tournament donated the money to indieland to drastically increase the money raised thus increasing the media coverage rather than directly to openhand? Which is why there isn't much change from the year they showed both revenue streams to the next year where indieland was the only one shown.
That’s exactly why it’s so suspicious. It would be so easy to prove otherwise. But they are not doing anything and are just staying silent.
Staying silent is exactly what they should be doing. They don't owe you their complete financials just because of some online accusation. If the IRS deems it so, then they'll talk to the IRS. Otherwise, these are just accusations. Nothing else.
Its worse than you think.
Its recently come to light that many documented donations and sponsorships didnt make it into the officials filings.
Basically his charity fraud might be a multimillion dollar source of tax-free income for him.
It’s literally called “The Open Hand Foundation” now i see where they got the name from 😂
A donation has been made in your name to The Human Fund - "Money for people"
Their hands are open when receiving money but closed when donating it.
*frosk voice* "i was going to talk about red dead 2 but im going to talk about a more serious topic.. scamming charity" 😂
Can't take a picture of the account because that is easily faked with browser tools.
The fact the money still isn’t donated says it all. Clearly the money isn’t there or they’re trying to figure out a way to keep all the money without donating. Either way there’s no more excuses.
They aren't conspiring how to keep the money, that was done 9 years ago
Imagine just being $10-50k in donations over 10years. Easy fix, take out a loan, stick it in an account and show proof
But how you do that for $655k 😂
Get those lawyers boys!
The sad thing is it took way to long for Asmon to realize how bad this was.
Red flag for me for a golf CHARITY tournament is an unknown foundation...with little to no word of mouth globally is asking for 750$ INDIVIDUAL participation fee. This also unknown foundation has 5000$ laying around to GIFT to someone for making a hole and one? I get you can get an insurance company to front those bills, but comeon that is INCREDIBLY shaky for people to give a good chunk of money to.
The government is slow unless you have something it wants, like its money. Then its fast.
7:00 They even spelled dementia wrong
They may have donated his mothers body for research at a university and money when they didn't have to report it. But still pretty damning evidence shown. And Mutahars new video just shows how bad it may be.
Guess the bubblegum example guy didn’t hear that bubble burst already
This hurts so bad because I loved watching Jirard for years, I grew up watching him and the grumps and people like that....
21:27 and that is way less than what was actually raised according to mutahars video he is only accounting for part of it, so there is probably closer to 2m missing