New York City Marine veteran Daniel Penny’s defense fund grew by almost a half million dollars in a day to over $1.5 million after he was charged in the subway chokehold death of an erratic homeless man.
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Penny, 24, was arraigned Friday on one count of second-degree manslaughter for fatally choking 30-year-old Jordan Neely, who prosecutors say had been “making threats and scaring passengers.”
His lawyers, Thomas Kenniff and Steven Kaiser, launched the campaign Tuesday on the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo, which raised $1,097,282 as of Saturday afternoon and surpassed $1.5 million as of Sunday morning.
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