Karmelo Anthony’s Family Asks Public for Another $250,000 Despite 2025 Fundraising Haul
“When asked about the previous fundraising campaign and the need for additional funds, Dominique Alexander, president of Next Generation Action Network, declined to discuss how the earlier donations were used.”
The family of convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony is asking the public to donate another $250,000, which they claim will go toward his ongoing legal fees, despite the fact that donors have already given the family more than $600,000.
Is the appeals process really this expensive? We already know he won’t get a new trial. At this point, the fundraising looks a bit gauche.
FOX News reports:
Karmelo Anthony seeks $250K for murder appeal as questions persist over family’s previous $634K fundraiser
Karmelo Anthony’s family is seeking another $250,000 to fund his appeal after an earlier campaign raised nearly $634,000 and faced questions over how the money was spent, the family announced at a news conference in Dallas, Texas.
The fundraising push came nearly two weeks after a judge denied Anthony’s request for a new trial. His family and supporters, including attorney Russell Wilson, used the Dallas news conference to outline the appeal.
Anthony, 19, was sentenced to 35 years in prison in June after a jury convicted him of murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas. He has appealed and says he cannot afford to hire an attorney for the appeal.
The new fund is intended to cover legal fees, experts and other costs associated with challenging Anthony’s conviction, Wilson said.
“I think there’s a misconception that the motion for new trial denial would have ended an appeal,” Wilson said. “It actually is part of an appeal.”
Wilson said the appeal could take more than a year. The trial record is expected to be assembled in October. After that, both sides will make their case in writing, and the Dallas Court of Appeals could hold a hearing.
The request follows a GiveSendGo campaign launched on Anthony’s behalf in April 2025 that raised $633,908 before it was removed from public view following his conviction.
This excerpt from NewsNation is rather enlightening:
Anthony’s appellate attorneys described what they expect to be a lengthy and challenging legal process before the Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas. The appeal is expected to begin Oct. 7, with the state’s response to follow. Potential delays could push proceedings into next year.
The new fundraiser also prompted questions about the hundreds of thousands of dollars raised before Anthony’s trial and how that money was spent.
When asked about the previous fundraising campaign and the need for additional funds, Dominique Alexander, president of Next Generation Action Network, declined to discuss how the earlier donations were used.
Anthony’s attorneys later said his initial defense costs alone exceeded $300,000.
I’ll be surprised if the public steps up to the plate on this latest request for funds when the family can’t even account for the last round.
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Translation: “We can’t afford the payments on all the stuff we bought with the money you gave us.”.
Who knew that murder could be so profitable? Cash cows, eat your heart out.
They didn’t buy anything with that money. The rumors to that effect were all lies.
The new house, fancy car, and nose job were all presents from Kwanzaa Santa.
The house is a rental.
Thus affirming Suburban’s post – they no longer can afford to keep up the expensive (rent) payments for their upgraded living arrangements. Which expense had nothing to do with supporting CA’s defense – only with supporting his family’s new (upgraded) lifestyle.
Like the ep of taxi where Latka thought that he bought a luxury apt for $3,000. When Alex told him it was just for a month’s rent, Latka goes “I need to start saving then.”
Sorry… Atlanta Santa.
They bought a house and moved states. All public info
They didn’t move states. And the house and car was before the fund paid out anything at all, so it couldn’t have come from that.
Obviously you’ve never used “90 days same as cash.”
Nose job? That photo must have been taken before the surgery.
None of that could possibly have come from the GiveSendGo fund, because at that time it had not paid out even one red cent.
I don’t know whether millhouse statement regarding the spending of the go fund me money was spend for personal use is correct,
I will state that there are tons of bs spewing from both sides – thus the accuracy of what y read and discounted heavily
GiveSendGo announced publicly at the time, that it had not paid out any of the money collected. Therefore the money for those things could not have come from the fund.
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Milhouse – I am not disagreeing with you. I have no information that supports or refutes the spending of the go fund me funds.
My point is there is a tremendous amount of BS talking points posted on social media. As such, no one should accept the validity of statements made on social media as factually accurate. My word of caution is aimed at the individuals claiming the money was spend for non legal costs.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/convicted-killer-karmelo-anthony-family-used-fundraiser-money-moving-living-expenses
That FOX story from June 2026 is inaccurate in its account of events that were alleged to have happened back in April 2025. The allegations it repeats came from a Daily Mail story on April 16, 2025, which explicitly said the family had moved to a rented house, worth $900K, in a different neighborhood in Frisco, not out of state. Any move the family may have made after that date is irrelevant.
And on April 17, 2025 GiveSendGo confirmed that it had not yet paid out anything at all. Therefore the expenses alleged by the Daily Mail, if they were undertaken at all and were not just made up, did not come from the fund. That is all.
It is of course completely legitimate to use such a fund for necessary living expenses. The allegation was that the family was using it for extravagance, but that was based entirely on the Daily Mail story, and is therefore completely refuted by GiveSendGo’s statement. Any relocation after the funds were eventually paid out is irrelevant, and there’s no reason to suppose such a relocation was extravagant.
and why wouldn’t they?
Their hearts were made in hell, I’d expect nothing less.
Has he got a younger brother they can get to kill someone? That way, the money would really start rolling in.
Next Generation Action Network otherwise known as Next Generation Grifters Network with the slogan Watch Us Make Your Money Disappear
You can take the family out if the ghetto but you can’t take the ghetto out of the family.
Anthony is yet another member of the Dhimmi-crats’ venerated pantheon of sociopathic black murderers/would-be murderer saints — St. Mumia Abu-Jamal the Cop-Killer; St. “Tookie” Williams the Mass Murderer; St. Travon of the Blessed Skittles, the concrete head-smasher; St. Michael Brown, the “Gentle Giant,” attempted cop-murderer; et al.
Don’t forget about St. Floyd the Drug-Addled, Violent Batterer — the most venerated black criminal sociopath saint of all, in the Dhimmi-crat canon.
Maybe he needs to ask Russell Wilson for a $300K refund. What has his family spent the rest of $300K plus money on? Was the money pissed away on frivolous things by his family members? This family can’t take care of their kid, let alone money.
Predicted.
I said at the start of this crap that they were going to keep exploiting this scumbag after the trial, claiming they needed more money for ‘appeals’.
Literally weeks after the fundraiser his mother got a nose job.
They never cared he was a murdering scumbag. They only cared what they could grift off it.
This is the second one?
Yes, it comes just before the third.
And why shouldn’t they?
Even Abraham Lincoln admitted that you can fool some of the people all of the time.
His mistake was letting the Democratic Party bosses hear him say it.
Since then, it’s been page two of their operating manual.
Last I heard Crump’s pack of rabid race-baiters was representing him pro bono.
Where did you hear that? His defense lawyers had nothing to do with Crump. He was defended by legitimate lawyers, who charged what legitimate lawyers charge.
That’s my uptick. And another thing needing laying to rest is that his counsel was a hack. Far from it; he is one of the best criminal defense lawyers available. There was just nothing at all for him to work with in this case.
One of the seven pro bono lawyers:
Brooke Cluse, Attorney representing Ben Crump Law.
Brooke Cluse is on his newly hired appellate team. She was not involved in his defense. Nor were any of the new team.
His defense lawyers were Mike Howard, Toby Shook, and Russell Wilson II. None of whom were working pro bono.
It was for his indigency hearing, right after the trial. Three of them, don’t remember their names.
Crump is motivated by two things. Race baiting, and money/ He is not about to do anything pro bono.
Yes. Appellate lawyers are even more expensive than trial lawyers.
No, we don’t. We know he won’t get one without an appeal; so now he will appeal. The whole point of an appeal is to get the conviction overturned, so he can get a new trial.
If they want to appeal then they need to raise money.
Presumably it went to pay his defense lawyers, and to defray their costs.
There were rumors right after he was arrested, when the GiveSendGo was orginally set up, that the family had withdrawn money from it and used it for their own expenses, leaving him to rely on a public defender. This was not true at all. At the time these rumors were circulating, GiveSendGo publicly confirmed that it had not yet paid out anything. All the money raised to date was still in the account. Therefore the rumors were pure garbage, and those spreading them were garbage.
1) This case has been framed by many as what could be deemed a “civil rights” case as many have claimed that Anthony was charged and convicted based on him being black. If that is the case, then why aren’t civil right attorneys seeking to work on the appeal pro bono? Don’t lawyers work on cases in which they believe without being paid? Or is it only other professions who donate time to causes without being forced to do so?
For example, Thurgood Marshall worked for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which did many cases pro bono – including the seminal case of Brown v. Board of Education.
So the question is “why not have an appellate attorney start work pro bono on the case and be “reimbursed” by fund raising rather than the raising funds and the nebulous “we aren’t saying where those funds are going or were spent in the past?”
2) There is no doubt that Anthony would be deemed eligible for a public defender. In the case of Darrell Brooks, who drove through the 2021 Waukesha Christmas Parade, (killing 6 people and injuring 70 people although there were more people injured for whom the state did not file charges,) Brooks was convicted on all counts.
After the trial, Brooks filed a notice of appeal. Because he was indigent, the state assigned Michael Covey as the appellate attorney.
Covey is no slouch and at the time, many commentators and lawyers in Wisconsin said Covey was one of the best appellate attorneys in the country if not the best,
Why wouldn’t the State of Texas appoint and pay for an appellate attorney in this case as well?
In short, the so called “fund raising” without accountability and transparency is troubling in many ways. We have seen “fund raisers” for trials like this and causes like Anthony’s disburse the money not to the actual “cause,” but to enhance the lifestyle of others. (You may remember the BLM scandals where the leaders became wealthy off of donations and keeping monies instead of disbursing the funds for the cause for which they were donated.)
3) One has to wonder the administration fees associated with this type of fundraising. If the people running the request for money from private citizens do not or will off an accounting of the funds disbursement, that is highly troubling.
Because it clearly isn’t the case. That’s Crump’s propaganda. No one believes it. At least no one with enough intelligence to be a decent lawyer that he would want defending him. Any decent civil rights lawyer has more than enough demand on their pro bono hours from real cases; none of them will defend this guy without payment.
Even they know that it is a stupid hill to die on. I always wondered how many firms turned down Oberlin College.
So you really think that the appeal for money is not based on the idea that an innocent, good black kid was not sitting peacefully sitting under the tent when he was viciously attacked by a bigger white male and the smaller Anthony had to defend himself?
You really don’t think that the appeal for money is based on the respective races of the two kids?
Thanks for the laugh.
The appeal for money may be based on those things, but no one actually believes it.
Thanks for agreeing with me.
And then you jump the shark.
You cannot logically say that “the appeal for money is based on those things” and then say “no one actually believes it.”
Why in the world would people give money to something they do not believe?
That makes no sense and you know it.
You are simply disagreeing in the face of facts and just wanting to be contrarian. You and I have been down this path before. You really have an issue with simply saying “I was wrong” or “I made a bad statement.”
But once again, thanks for the laugh.
“We have seen “fund raisers” for trials like this and causes like Anthony’s disburse the money not to the actual “cause,” but to enhance the lifestyle of others.”
The fund raising was done via GiveSendGo. One assumes the family first tried GoFundMe, only to run up against their prohibition on accounts “for the legal defense of an alleged violent crime” — a self-own that has hobbled them since having to find some reason to explain their refusal to open an account for Kyle Rittenhouse. GoFundMe is a “Christian” alternative with no such restriction (nor their antipathy against right-wing causes).
GoFundMe clearly tells you the name of the recipient of the funds, who frankly may be anybody. They do a snake-check for obvious fraud. If you find a less-obvious fraud and report it to them, they are very good about shutting the fund down promptly.
Back in December of 2024, I scanned their accounts to see if any funds had been opened for Luigi, and found four or five, all opened by different people who explained how they would get the money to Luigi, or his lawyer, or his family, or whomever else. However, one of those accounts used a photo of Luigi as the feature photo, but the text read:
Support For Those Like Luigi
This is a donation drive to raise awareness and support for U.S. political prisoners, with a focus on (blah blah blah)
I reported it and it was shut down the very net day, My point being, don’t blame the escrow holders — they do their diligence.
Civil rights practice and criminal practice are two completely different areas of law. In fact, an appeals attorney is a totally different animal than a trial attorney—completely different skill sets.
The problem is that this is being portrayed as a “civil rights” case in that Anthony is depicted as a nice young kid who was attacked by a bigger, aggressive white male.
I used the term “civil rights” because of that portrayal – that race had a factor in the incident.
Murder is expensive
are the proceeds from a gofundme considered ordinary income ?–if so, aren’t they looking at a tax bill in the $100k or so range ?–lordy, perhaps ANOTHER gofundme campaign to settle the taxes on the PREVIOUS gofundme / grift campaign
Interesting question. If, as Milhouse asserts, the family hasn’t touched any of the funds collected for defending Anthony, it isn’t income except to the law firm when the fund pays their fees and expenses. However, that raises two questions: Why haven’t there been withdrawals to pay the trial attorneys as fees and defense costs were incurred? They normally work off an initial retainer, then require additional payments as fees are earned and defense costs are incurred. That is the retainer and subsequent collections are held in a client trust account, then as services are rendered and expenses incurred, funds in the client trust account are transferred to the law firm as fees and expense reimbursements. Milhouse can’t have it both ways. Either the funds were for trial defense—in which case we would expect to see GoFundMe disbursements as the case went on—or they weren’t, in which case there would be no GoFundMe disbursements as he asserts. Next, if the trial attorneys were working pro bono or being paid by the state (under some assertion that Anthony was indigent—but, of course, with the GoFundMe donations he wasn’t), why can’t the defense fund be used for appeal costs without asking for more donations?
On the other hand, if the funds collected are not ultimately used for defense costs, that opens up more questions regarding not just taxes (dispensing it will be taxable to the recipient), but also diverting money collected for legal defense to other purposes (possible fraud)..
I don’t claim they haven’t touched any of those funds in the last year. What we know for a fact is that at the time the Daily Mail started the rumors about a luxury house and car and other extravagant expenses, on April 16, 2025, the fund had not paid out even one cent. Therefore if those expenses were even incurred at all (and the Daily Mail is fully capable of having just made them up) they did not come from the fund.
What are you talking about? Who ever claimed that?! That’s just ridiculous. Of course the money from the fund was used to pay his lawyers. Who were not working pro bono, and were not public defenders, as many people wildly alleged.
I can’t fathom where you got the idea that anyone ever claimed that money is still sitting with GiveSendGo, especially since it shut the account as soon as he was convicted.
The point is that as of April 17, 2025 no money had been paid out of the fund. As of that date all the donated money was still sitting there untouched. Of course none of it had yet gone to the lawyers, because they had probably not yet even been selected, or had not yet presented their first invoice.
This is a good time to recall the vile Dhimmi-crats’ contemptible stunt, done at the 2016 or 2020 Dhimmi-crat National Convention (or, both) — paying tribute to the mothers of sundry black, criminal sociopaths who had died by their own willful, stupid and criminal life choices.
“Mothers of the Movement.” Makes me want to vomit. Turning irresponsible, incompetent, absent and/or indifferent mothers of black sociopath, violent criminals, into alleged heroes and victims. Absolutely nauseating and despicable.
We only know about the one online fundraising effort through GiveSendGo. More than a few Texas newshounds are looking into just how many “off the books” fundraisers are being held for him, e.g. through churches and social organizations that might never be otherwise reported. The case is a big deal here in Texas, largely because of the implications it raises for school security and why it took so long to bring Anthony to trial.
In absolute terms, it was a long time (and our gut feeling agrees).
In relative terms, look at the Charlie Kirk murder. It happened about five months after Karmelo’s crime (though it seems longer), and Karmelo was convicted three months ago. Do you think we’ll get a jury decision on Robinson within the next two months? I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Wherever it went, $600G to a losing cause isn’t enough
Karmelo murdered the guy flat out. The is no doubt about it. All this stuff about how much his family is getting is garbage. They are getting about all they can from the mess. No one should pay to support a murderer and that is clear.
Unfortunately it is not clear to some people. Over a million dollars has been raised for the Murdering Mom Lindsay Clancy. And this is the second fundraising effort on Killer Karmelo’s behalf.
The only difference I can see is GoFundMe shuts down its services in the case of conservative defendants—Kyle Rittenhouse, for example, where his supporters had to scramble to find a fundraising alternative—whereas, it lets fundraising for leftist darlings like Anthony and Clancy proceed unhindered.
Again, what on earth are you talking about? What has GoFundMe got to do with this? You keep writing utter nonsense that shows you have no clue what the conversation is even about.
GoFundMe is a leftist organization that doesn’t allow fundraisers for those accused of crimes. Therefore it did not allow any fundraiser for Anthony.
GiveSendGo is a Christian organization that did host a fundraiser for Kyle Rittenhouse. It allows fundraisers for people accused of crimes, because that’s who needs money for defense. And of course it allowed one for Anthony, for the same exact reason.
The stupid broads defending Clancy can’t see that if hormonal rush is a valid excuse for three murders, then no woman should ever be employed in any position of consequence.
Fundraising for murderers is fashionable in America. It shows what suckers Americans are. Donating money to convicted criminals and at the same time complaining about spending a dollar more a gallon on gas. Go figure.
These internet funding sites are money trees. Once one grows in your yard you never want to work again.
I’ll break out my checkbook today. Oh wait. I don’t have a checkbook anymore. So sorry.
Fortunately, the crook’s true nature has been made public.
Clearly, on the murder day, the perp was hunting for bear.