Zimmerman spent $36K in 18 days on phones, Internet, credit cards and bills

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

Posted on Tue, Jul. 17, 2012

Zimmerman spent $36K in 18 days on phones, Internet, credit cards and bills

By Frances Robles
[e-mail]

George Zimmerman went through almost $36,000 of contributions in 18 days spent mostly in jail, spending a bulk of his newfound cash on telecommunications, newly filed court records show.

Using funds donated from the public on the short-lived www.therealgeorgezimmerman.com, Zimmerman and his wife spent $6,500 on Internet and phone bills, according to a document his defense attorney filed with the judge. He and his wife bought new cell phones for $300 each and paid a year-long Verizon contract in full. They installed a telephone landline for $2,500 and spent $1,300 on a two-year AT&T wi-fi contract.

They paid off at least $7,000 in credit card bills.

They used $4,378 on automotive expenses, making payments on two car loans while renting another for more than $1,500. Gas: $800.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/17/2900145/zimmerman-spent-35k-on-cell-phones.html

[chollybocker]

1. I hope the idiot contributors to Zim's dot com

feel some sense of regret, and are unable to breed.

[MADem]

2. What kind of phone landline costs two thousand, five hundred bucks?

Was it made of gold and included a hotline to the Kremlin?

This guy is having a nice holiday, isn't he?

Bank records submitted as evidence indicate Zimmerman spent at least part of that time on the Maryland shore.



Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/17/2900145/zimmerman-spent-35k-on-cell-phones.html#storylink=cpy

[cstanleytech]

4. I think thats for an entire year or two which if you break it down is either

208 a month for a year or 104 a month if its a two year deal.

[MADem]

7. Good grief! I can call USA, Caribbean, Mexico and Canada on a Verizon landline

and I pay sixty some odd bucks a month--and I think I'm being ripped off, but I like having a landline!

If I need to call Europe or Middle East or Asia, I use a phone card.

Is he also getting cable and internet with that? Even at that, I can get one of those "Triple Play" deals with all the bells and whistles for under a hundred and fifty bucks a month.

[cstanleytech]

18. Depends on who he is getting the service with I suppose.

I know with my service which is AT&T (sadly no other options in my area for internet other than satellite which is cost prohibitive) for both dsl and phone I pay around the 160 area and thats the bundled price.

[MADem]

19. OUCH!

No television for that kind of money? Mama mia!

[cstanleytech]

23. Nope, they havent rolled the Uverse in this area and it looks like ATT is bailing on the small urban

towns because from what I read the uverse rollout has been either slowed or stopped.
On the bright side where I am the county is rolling a digital fiber line all over now and its due for completion sometime next summer so hopefully I will have other faster and cheaper options for internet, tv and phone service.

[MADem]

25. Bummer! I hope you get decent coverage soon that isn't arm-and-leg in terms of price! nt

[erpowers]

14. A Way to Hide Money

There may be a chance that they are just trying hide how they actually spent the money. Other than that, maybe it is a typo and the landline only costs $250. That price does seem more reasonable.

[Liberal_in_LA]

24. I don't get it either.

[grasswire]

3. "The judge ... said he believed Zimmerman was preparing for a life on the run"

This judge has Zim's number, for sure.

[uppityperson]

16. That is what it looks like to me also.

[Diclotican]

5. Judi Lynn

Judi Lynn

wow, thats possible more than I have spend on bills, internet and phone since I was able to move out on my own many, many years ago.. And all that in 18 days?.. I guess he want to be sure to jump the ship when able..

To use 2500 on a land line Phone line - is just silly as it not even in Norway cost 2500 dollar to get a land line out of the house... I guess most of this bills they put forward is dummy, where the real money are going to hiding, to be used when he and his wife are running out of the country.. From Florida you can leave for more or less every latin.-american country - and it exist a few, who still doesn't have any deals with the US regarding people fleeing justise...

Diclotican

[lunatica]

6. HhahahahhahhhahahahhAAA!

But, but the donors wanted him to go out and buy more guns so he could start a real shoot em up race war!!

[jerseyjack]

8. Paying $$ for a landline is inconsistant with planning to run.

[JoeyT]

9. No it isn't.

Not if he wanted a number he could call to reach his wife at if she didn't go on the run with him.

Edited to add: Not to mention this was "free" money they were spending. It's actually more likely that they got a bunch of money all at once and spent it on a bunch of random stuff.

[Odin2005]

10. One of the symptom's of psychopathy is impulsivity.

[tanyev]

11. Gosh, that *wink* $155 dollars *wink* won't last long at that rate.

[KG]

12. from here on out, why would anybody believe anything this lying little shit has to say?

[erpowers]

13. People Who Donated Got Played

The list of thing bought by the Zimmerman's seem to show that they played their donors.

[libodem]

15. Those donors are jackasses

The money may as well have been burned. Oh, well, a fool and his money are soon parted.

[SoapBox]

17. ...such a slime.

This guy is beyond dirty.

[arely staircase]

20. Who does he think he is,

Sarah Palin

[neohippie]

21. is it legal to spend money raised for your legal defense on whatever you want

is it okay to use money you convinced people that you need for your legal defense fund on your own personal bills, buying new cell phones and paying off credit card debt and your vehicles, it would seem like you misrepresented what you needed money for, and defrauded those who donated

[dionysus]

22. thing is, i don't think it was a "defense fund" per se, just a fund the asshole set up so he could

get suckers to pay off all his debts.

[JI7]

26. hahahha, i laugh at those who donated money