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Dave Yost: “This would be a fairly easy law to write that crowdfunding…”

Featuring: Dave Yost, Republican | Attorney General of Ohio

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Published May 20, 2025 | Video Starts at 14:44

I disagree. Now, obviously, that's why we have a legislature. The attorney general does not write and pass laws. And I'm sure that some of these questions would be debated, but This would be a fairly easy law to write that crowdfunding is not available if you're a criminal defendant. And it's a bright line rule that would be easily enforceable. Now, you might ask, is that wise? Should there be exceptions to it? I don't think so. (14:44–14:51)

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Asserts that a law prohibiting crowdfunding for criminal defendants would be easy to draft.

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“His father used his motor vehicle as a deadly weapon and killed a man who had nothing to do with this while he was on duty as a law…”
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“We are not in the Attorney General's office engaged with this case.”
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“One of their competitors is helping to raise money for the defendant in the murder case of Deputy Henderson.”
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“Under current Ohio law, there are significant limits to what I can do.”
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“There were several attempts to start a GoFundMe page for the defendant in this case. And GoFundMe, consistent with their policy, took those…”
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“The Son of Sam law was not written. In fact, it was before we had such a thing as crowdfunding.”
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“It may well be that the General assembly of Ohio should undertake to pass a law that would regulate this kind of thing as being contrary to…”
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“Their terms of service allow them to cancel a page if it's a violation of community standards.”
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“We have not looked into the identity verification that this particular site uses.”
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“I think it should be the policy of Ohio that crowdfunding platforms are not permitted to raise money on the backs of a notorious and…”
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“The city of Cincinnati and the county of Hamilton and the state of Ohio are going to provide an indigent defendant with the resources to do…”
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“The accusation of the violent crime is sufficient to say the crowdfunding doesn't go here for any reason.”
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“The attorney general does not write and pass laws.”
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“The public has a right to want to intervene in how you're going to raise money from every sympathetic person across the country.”
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“This is two separate cases. So the people are responding to the use of force critical incident involving Ryan Hinton that is completely…”
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“The Son of Sam law, which we can provide you a copy of, and you'll see it is very specific about the nature of the contract that is…”
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“It's designed for TV rights, movie rights, books and that sort of thing.”
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“The situation here is narrow enough that it doesn't fall within the sweep of that law, which was created before we even had crowdfunding, to…”
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“It's a 1990s vintage law.”
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“You couldn't crowd fundraise for, to raise money to buy methamphetamine for everybody. You couldn't crowd, you know, fundraise to poison the…”
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“The constitutional question is a good one. And under the First Amendment, the state, the government may regulate speech if there's…”
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“Recognize that we have long regulated fundraising, charitable organizations and charitable fundraising, and it is perfectly within the…”
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“That's what I'm asking for here is a reasonable rule, common sense rule that will reflect that.”
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