After a Saturday of no new updates from SeanPaul “Long Island Audit” Reyes on the situation involving his latest arrest in Nassau County, New York, his take in the GoFundMe market again dropped, this time only taking in $72.00 towards his $10,000.00 goal to fight the charges.
His take was enough to win the day for the GoFuneMe market, with again no other competitors including our own on-going expenses fund taking in new donations, but not enough to propel him towards his goal to pay for his legal support.
Reyes was arrested last week after receiving a tip off that he would be arrested from a “high level official” in the Nassau County police force that Patrick Ryder, the commissioner of Nassau County, had ordered his police force to arrest Reyes upon entry of the Nassau County Traffic Violations Bureau.
The YouTuber started a live stream announcing that he had been arrested along with a GoFundMe to support to raise $10,000.00 based on the arrest before the arrest happened. This is at least the second time Reyes has pre-announced an arrest this year and resulted in Reyes appearing to purposely act in a manner that he knew would result in his arrest.
Since the start of the campaign, Reyes has raised roughly $3,831.00, towards his goal of $10,000.00 to fight unspecified fines and fees associated with the arrest. The arrest itself carries a $1,000.00 fine and up to a year in jail in the unlikely case that the charges stick.
Reyes reportedly has a desk ticket, and with his claims of going 4-0 against charges in Nassau County, it is more than likely that the charges will be dropped before the hearing. The YouTuber hasn’t announced a federal civil rights lawsuit or anything else in relation to the arrest and Jacob Uriel isn’t a high-priced lawyer, so fans may be questioning where the rest of the money is going to go.
It’s a troubling pattern that should bring concerns from his fans. Reyes announces the arrest, sets up GoFundMe campaigns and his live stream to announce that he had been arrested, then livestreams himself purposely getting arrested.
While some have called it Reyes “standing up for all of our Freedoms” by instigating his own arrests, others are troubled by the fact that he was making money off of the arrest before he was even arrested and is being rewarded for his own bad behavior.
For those who are following Reyes for the “entertainment value,” it must also be a disappointment as Reyes’ meekly submitted to the police, apparently stopped his own live stream, and then took days to post “new shocking evidence” to his fans to continue the “full story” of his “illegal” arrest.
(Reyes is currently streaming that “new shocking evidence” as we write this.)
Reyes has now made $109,395.00 towards various legal funds and vehicle purchases on GoFundMe in the past year. While his current federal civil rights lawsuit is paused, most of his arrests have been dropped or he is facing reduced charges. That leaves one to wonder, what exactly did he spend that $109,395.00? How did he affect change? And why do people still throw money at him for arrests that can clearly be avoided?
We’re sure to explore this further in future editions of this column.
On that note, if you’d like to donate to keep Jim being nearly stabbed to death by the lovely kitty Olive at the end of ever live stream, or to keep him writing this dreadful column each day, you can contribute to the GoFundMe run by this very channel (https://gofund.me/b8144e31). All proceeds go to keeping the lights on, eating, and writing new stories to feature here and on reallycoolsite.org.
