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A CROWDFUNDING campaign has been set up to reward a homeless man who handed in $US40,000, with donors keen to buy him a house to repay his good deed.
Ethan Whittington was so moved by Glen James’s honesty that he set up a GoFundMe.com site which has so far raised almost $68,000 ($73,000) for the Boston man. They have set a $US250,000 target.
Lets be reassured that there is still hope and humanity in our great nation,” Mr Whittington said.
Last week Mr James turned in a backpack containing tens of thousands of dollars in cash and traveller’s checks, saying even if he were desperate he wouldn’t have kept “even a penny.”
Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis honoured Mr James on Monday, giving him a special citation and thanking him for an “extraordinary show of character and honesty.”
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world-news/boston…z2fGcnT0xf