kong
07-07-2012, 02:39 AM
George Zimmerman Has a Safe House and Lots of New Money
George Zimmerman has a safe house in Seminole County, Florida and could be living in it by the end of the day, his legal team said on its blog, after the defendant in the Trayvon Martin killing raised $20,000 in less than 24 hours. Zimmerman has to pay 10 percent of his $1 million bail and prove he has collateral worth the rest in order to gain his release.
In Friday's blog post his team said they were "confident that Mr. Zimmerman will be released soon, although the exact time will not be revealed out of respect for the security concerns surrounding his release." He'll use this safe house until he finds more permanent accommodations, and, per his lawyers, his fundraising has apparently ticked up: "Since the $1,000,000 bond was made public on July 5, supporters have donated approximately $20,000. In the two months prior to the Court’s Order Setting Bail, the George Zimmerman Defense Fund had received approximately $55,000." Zimmerman had raised $204,000 in the weeks before his arrest through a website called The Real George Zimmerman that's since been taken offline. Until a judge raised his bail this week, the money he'd been raising had slowed to a trickle. Clearly the funding bump shows Zimmerman's supporters are still willing to speak with their dollars when they think it will help him.
George Zimmerman has a safe house in Seminole County, Florida and could be living in it by the end of the day, his legal team said on its blog, after the defendant in the Trayvon Martin killing raised $20,000 in less than 24 hours. Zimmerman has to pay 10 percent of his $1 million bail and prove he has collateral worth the rest in order to gain his release.
In Friday's blog post his team said they were "confident that Mr. Zimmerman will be released soon, although the exact time will not be revealed out of respect for the security concerns surrounding his release." He'll use this safe house until he finds more permanent accommodations, and, per his lawyers, his fundraising has apparently ticked up: "Since the $1,000,000 bond was made public on July 5, supporters have donated approximately $20,000. In the two months prior to the Court’s Order Setting Bail, the George Zimmerman Defense Fund had received approximately $55,000." Zimmerman had raised $204,000 in the weeks before his arrest through a website called The Real George Zimmerman that's since been taken offline. Until a judge raised his bail this week, the money he'd been raising had slowed to a trickle. Clearly the funding bump shows Zimmerman's supporters are still willing to speak with their dollars when they think it will help him.