Gees Rugnuts, what the Hell happend to that man, he sure looks awful. How on earth could this be a fraud, did he recover after getting donations and go on to suddenly become a young handsome man with out medical help??
Just what medical problem did he say he had, one picture looks like he had Leprosy, nose falling off.
Vesta, Andy Stephenson was a poster on DU. He is now one of their sainted martyr's.
A brief retelling would go back to November 2004. Bush was re-elected much to the consternation of the DUmmies. Another member of DU began "an effort" to have the Ohio vote overturned with the phrase on DU that the elction could be "only $10 away from being overturned." To which the DUmmies broke their piggy banks to give to her scam. Andy Stephenson was an active participant in the scam until a falling out of some sort between thieves occured.
A very short time later, Andy Stephenson, who had ran for Secretary of Treasury, State of Washington, posted that his doctors had diagnosed him with cancer in his common vile duct.
My note: This is notable because any doctor is going to have a Whipple procedure performed ASAP, like last week fast because this type of cancer spreads like wildfire and can kill very fast upon diagnosis. A few weeks later he mentioned that he could only have the procedure performed at John Hopkins and it would cost him aroun $50,000 dollars. These are both lies. He had hospitals near his house that could perform the procedure and the state of Washington would pick up the tab if he were truly indigent. Judging by his travel schedule, he was not indigent.
At the is point, SFexpat2000, who is now eferrari, started a fundraiser. Without providing a paypal account or setting up a non-profit for it. Which started alarm bells ringing all over the internet. At some point Wee willy Pitt had the thought that he might be looking at a scam penetrate the haze and posted it. This started a brief war between Pitt and the Andyites.
At some point, Andy Stephenson had a procedure, not a whipple, somewhere, not at John Hopkins. He started travelling again shortly after and wound up in another hospital where he died after contracting a Staph infection. There is no word on where any of the money went.
I was a poster on FR at the time but did not follow these events closely. Much of what I posted is what I researched from posts on the internet and talking openly and via private messages on DU. This is about as short as I can make it and include most of the relevant information.
