According to ABC News, donations to George Zimmerman’s legal defense fund have spiked since Friday when the former neighborhood watch volunteer was ordered back to prison for lying in court.
Zimmerman, 28, turned himself in at 1:25 p.m. Sunday. He was seen entering the Seminole County jail in shackles.
Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara said the donations had been coming in at a rate of $1,000 a day. But the amount has spiked since Friday when the judge revoked his bond.
O’Mara said Zimmerman has about $193,000 in his defense fund, minus $20,000 that was spent on “living expenses, hotels and security … because of death threats.”
Zimmerman is charged with 2nd degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February in Sanford, Florida.
Zimmerman and his wife, Shellie, are accused of speaking in code during jail house conversations in order to hide $155,000 in cash donated to a personal PayPal account.
But the Zimmermans had no intentions of using that money for his defense. Zimmerman instructed his wife to reset the password to the PayPal account and to transfer the money to her credit union account.
In court on Friday, Zimmerman’s attorney said it was all a misunderstanding. O’Mara, who is a worse liar than his client, intends to ask for another bond hearing where Zimmerman can explain what he really meant when he and his wife were speaking in code.
“It’s not again like they were trying to hide the money or leave with the money,” said O’Mara. “They just had it… and felt like they needed to secure themselves,” he said.
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