Tuned into a Twitter Space on which trucker convoy spokesperson @BJdichter is speaking. A few details about the financial situation of the convoy.
The ~$1 million released from the initial GoFundMe campaign to a TD Bank account has been frozen by TD and is supposed to be, Dichter says, transferred to a trust account held by the convoy's lawyer, Keith Wilson. This has not happened yet.
Convoy organizers had requested a transfer from the GiveSendGo campaign (the platform used after GoFundMe spiked initial campaign) just before the Ontario Superior Court issued order freezing funds. When this happened, Dichter says convoy had GiveSendGo reverse transfer.
In other words, the GiveSendGo funds are still in GiveSendGo's possession, Dichter says, while convoy's lawyers challenge Ontario court order.
Dichter says the only way the convoy has been able to access any funds have been through bitcoin donations. Every other channel has been blocked or frozen, he says.
Dichter says convoy organizers (he specifically names Tamara Lich) have been giving drivers money out of pocket up until this point, noting that cash donations from supporters only started coming in yesterday (after Ontario court order freezing GiveSendGo funds).
Dichter says $1 million has been donated in bitcoin, but it needs to be transferred to fiat be distributed to truckers.
Dichter confirms "not a penny" raised through GoFundMe or GiveSendGo has made it to truckers, because it's all been frozen in one way or another, though he says money from organizers' pockets and cash donations have made it to truckers.
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