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Dave Yost: “You couldn't crowd fundraise for, to raise money to buy…”

Featuring: Dave Yost, Republican | Attorney General of Ohio

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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost Addresses Crowdfunding for Deputy Henderson's Murder Case

Published | Video Starts at 26:16

Unless there's some kind of, you know, fraud, waste or abuse being reported. I guess. Yeah, I guess that's what I'm kind of asking is that how do you. Well, look, You couldn't crowd fundraise for, to raise money to buy methamphetamine for everybody. You couldn't crowd, you know, fundraise to poison the water. There are all kinds of reasons why the public interest would limit freedom of action. So the voluntariness of this doesn't particularly bother me. (26:16–26:28)

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Asserts that crowdfunding cannot be used to raise money for illegal activities like buying methamphetamine.

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