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9:54 pm
January 23, 2012
So what does everyone think? To me, both Mckmama and the MWOPbloggers are crazy. Mckmama makes a blog, twitter or Facebook and instantly the MWOPBlog has a response.
I must say that it does seem like Mckmama comes out smelling like a rose no matter her circumstance.
Do you think Mckmama is really making decent money on her blog or should she give it up and go back to teaching?
12:45 am
April 4, 2012
I had never heard of her before. I just looked at both websites, sort of icky that someone would put that much time into disproving everything. It does sound as if there are some lies though. The controversies do create clicks and income though!
11:03 am
I found MWoP when researching monetizing blogs, quite awhile ago. I think it was on Blogger then? Anyway, I checked in occasionally because it was pretty trainwreck-ish, but I had to stop because the insanity got to be too much for me. Those bitches are CAH-RAY-ZEE. 1000+ comments on every post dissecting everything Mckmama does, like they are all experts or something. They sent letters to the bankruptcy court saying she lied on her paperwork because they read her blog, therefore they know everything about her. They'll post her address and shit. They've gone waaaaaay off the deep end.
10:00 am
If you're bored and need some amusement, the bankruptcy proceedings are up on MwoP. This is when I enjoy their crazy — someone has a PACER account and posts all of the documentation and transcripts and everything 
Anyway, mckmama is completely clueless. The trustee meeting reads almost like an SNL skit or something, she's just so disconnected from reality it's almost funny. NOT funny that 5 (4? 5?) kids are involved, the poor things have complete dumbasses for parents.
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November 8, 2011
MwoP is actually a kinda scary group. I heard some of the stuff they have done in the past was downright threatening towards the family. It's one thing to knitpick everything a blogger does, it's another to start snooping in the kids medical records and asking nurses what actually went down (which is what seemed to be going down when I checked out the site once).
6:16 pm
January 23, 2012
CrazyAmy – I read the transcript as I listened. It really does sound like an SNL skit in some places. I can't image anything so personal being posted about myself.
Just a veg – The MWOPers scare me and BMM on Mckmama's Facebook scares me. BMM is a fan of Mckmama's and wrote a 100+ page manifesto and sent it to the bankruptcy trustee trying to defend it her. Really though, it was a blueprint to all of Mckmama's lies. In the hearing, the trustee practically quotes BMM.
The MWOPers are convinced that Mckmama is going to jail. Honestly, I can't gloat about a mom with 5 kids going to jail.
It's weird. Mckmama can't post ANYTHING without the naysayers jumping on it. If Mckmama says the sky is blue, they find a weather report in Minnesota that says it's cloudy. Meanwhile, Mckmama is making a decent income from blogging! I think MWOP helps her income because people go back and forth between the two sites.
11:34 am
March 22, 2012
Oh honey most of the regular MWOPers are lovely people, who are really caring and funny. We just hate lying liars who lie and make money from it while posing as Christian experts on food, money, child care, marriage, animal husbandry, medicine, home education, photography….
12:03 pm
Jennifer McKinney will be incredibly lucky if she does not get jail time for trying to fraud the government. You can hear the lies and deception direct from her mouth.
The public record/audio of her bankruptcy is http://mwopblog.com/wp-content/uploads/mp3/341_Meeting_Redacted.mp3.
For those who are not signed up on GOMI and can't see the link, you can copy and paste this text after the backlashes following http: mwopblog[dot]com/wp-content/uploads/mp3/341_Meeting_Redacted.mp3.
Be sure to remove [dot] and replace with an actual period.
12:05 pm
January 6, 2012
did anyone see that she mentioned Alli Worthington as the person behind her deals site?
12:07 pm
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Also, I am not an MWOPer. I have never posted there. I followed MckMama on BlogFrog for years, but just dropped interest as my own life took me away from following. It wasn't until other BlogFroggers mentioned there was a possibility of jail time that I went to go look. The transcript was alarming, but anyone can type something up and pass it as truth.
The audio recording? That was really not good.
I saw somewhere today that Pete Rose the baseball player went to jail for months for just $35,000 he didn't claim on his taxes. The McKinney's total amount unclaimed is a lot more than that.
2:00 pm
February 28, 2012
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So what's the deal with this woman? She totally knew that was all taxable income and she had to pay on it, right? She just chose not to? In the transcript it sounds like she's trying to play dumb "I didn't know cars were assets, I didn't know PayPal was considered a bank account!" but I'm guessing if she made that much money off a blog she's somewhat savvy or at least a proficient liar. I don't read her so I don't know that much about it but the transcript seems shady as hell. I also can't decide if the MWOPers are lunatics or what because I know how infuriating it can be to see some asshole parade their asshole self on the Internet.
2:34 pm
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I don't know what to think. On the one hand, I'm not sure she's smart enough to intentionally commit fraud. On the other hand, who in the world doesn't think about paying taxes? Girlfriend should have hired an accountant.
I think mwop has gone beyond just protesting about an asshole. They actively encouraged sending letters to the bankruptcy trustee. I just cannot imagine being so invested in someone online that I send a letter to a court accusing someone of fraud. These aren't people that know her offline, these are people that had read her blog for a long time and feel like they know everything about her. It's creepy on multiple levels — it's creepy that they are so invested they would actually contact the court, and it's really fucking creepy that they know all these personal details about her, like her Paypal account balance.
2:40 pm
September 9, 2011
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(IM=husband JM=wife TR=bankruptcy trustee)
IM: I don’t know. The only thing I can say is that I thought I bought the, uh, ring for $3,500.
JM: Okay.
IM: And I have no idea what the value of the diamond is inside.
TR: The ring itself?
JM: Right, without the diamond.
TR: The engagement ring.
IM: Yeah.
TR: Was $3,500?
IM: She seemed worth it.
3:02 pm
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Jean Diapers, I loved that part. Also when the bankruptcy trustee asked her about selling the domains for $10. lulz
10:40 am
January 14, 2012
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The shit is hitting the fan. The Trustee is praying the Court to deny the bankruptcy based on fraud. I know some of the MWOPers are crazypants, but it's worth a visit today to have a look-see at the documents filed yesterday. I can't link from tablet, but Tracey Coehnen's blog The Fraud Files is worth a look,too, to get a feel for it from a forensic accountant's perspective.
3:41 pm
January 6, 2012
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crankyoldbitch said
The shit is hitting the fan. The Trustee is praying the Court to deny the bankruptcy based on fraud. I know some of the MWOPers are crazypants, but it's worth a visit today to have a look-see at the documents filed yesterday. I can't link from tablet, but Tracey Coehnen's blog The Fraud Files is worth a look,too, to get a feel for it from a forensic accountant's perspective.
This: http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2012/05/jennifer-mckinney-mckmama-bankruptcy-fraud-alleged-by-trustee/
She's written several posts about MckMama. They're very reliable – she isn't a crazypants MWOPer. It's mind-blowing what the McKinneys tried to get away with.
3:52 pm
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The amount of money she made in a month just blew my mind. It was, what, close to $8k? And she filed for bankruptcy and lied about that income? Wow.
8:08 pm
October 23, 2011
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Wow. This is kind of insane.
9:06 am
January 14, 2012
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And McKinney keeps on blogging. Her most recent blog post is preparing her sycophants for her new blog, as if it were all her idea. Or God's. Yeah, that's it. God gave her the idea to start something new, not the fact that her McDomains are being seized by the court. What a lying, scamming tool she is.
1:19 pm
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I think she gets to keep mckhealthy, the one she bought to forward to her diet pill scam. Think she's going to claim God told her to focus her efforts on healthy living blogging, and use the mckhealthy domain?
3:04 pm
May 27, 2012
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I really, really hope that GOMI will run with this and help disseminate the truth. As predicted, MckMama is making it sound like giving up her blog is 100% her idea. I am sick and damn tired of fraud bloggers who make thousands of dollars per month by lying and cheating, especially when they use Christianity to manipulate people. I know a few bloggers like this, but MckMama is the most egregious example. If she's willing to lie under oath about her blogging income, it really makes you wonder how much of her blogging was completely fabricated.
7:24 pm
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Is it just me or are things getting kind of crazy at fraud finding, talking about seizing her content and all? I thought the whole point of the domain names is they are an asset, domain names have varying degrees of worth and can be auctioned for money to repay creditors. What is this about seizing content or she would have another site? Does that matter, wouldn't mycharmingkids and mckmama have already been auctioned and money received?
(Now why she can't just say "hey guys, I'm losing this URL in the bankruptcy, you'll have to catch up with me on FB until I have something new" or whatever, I don't know. Oh, wait, she's a compulsive liar and manipulator.)
8:34 pm
May 27, 2012
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CrazyAmy said
Is it just me or are things getting kind of crazy at fraud finding, talking about seizing her content and all? I thought the whole point of the domain names is they are an asset, domain names have varying degrees of worth and can be auctioned for money to repay creditors. What is this about seizing content or she would have another site? Does that matter, wouldn't mycharmingkids and mckmama have already been auctioned and money received?
The domains are worth a certain amount in and of themselves for sure (she tried to claim they're worth the $10 she pays for each), but it is the content, the ads, the affiliate links, etc. that generated the huge amounts of revenue that she failed to disclose. If she simply bought another domain name (she already has), she could set it up to redirect to her old content and continue to reap the rewards when people search for things and land on her site. People will buy established websites content and all to build upon, because the old content is valuable for search engine traffic, Google pagerank, etc. Whether or not anyone would want to buy hers, I don't know, but it could be considered an asset. It will be interesting to see what happens.
I'm just disgusted that she's trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes once again when she could use the opportunity to fess up and try to start fresh.
8:58 pm
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Right, but blogging is her job. Taking her domains and auctioning them could go toward repaying creditors, but taking her entire site is taking her job. That just seems odd to me. I dont think people usually lose their jobs because they file for bankruptcy, but she doesn't appear to have an LLC, so I don't know how that works, when the personal and business isn't separated.
I just didn't think the purpose of bankruptcy was to prevent someone from making money. But, I admit, my bankruptcy knowledge could fit in a teaspoon.
9:55 pm
May 27, 2012
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Oh, I see what you're saying. I really don't know how it works, either. I know it's illegal for employers to fire someone if they file for bankruptcy, but I don't know what the deal is for self-employed people. It seems to me that if they feel they can seize the domain names, then why not the content? On the other hand, seizing the rights to the content seems a bit petty. I'm not sure they'd go that far. All I can say is what a stupid, stupid gamble she took.
10:37 pm
March 16, 2012
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Holy. Shit.
People. It's not rocket science: if you're going to scam the government, cheat on your taxes, or otherwise give yourself a rainy day fund, keep it plausible. Statistics are smarter than you. So are auditors. The state (and the IRS) won't spend 5000 USD to capture 50… but they will happily spend 5000 for 50,000, or, in this case, a hell of a lot more, as the penalties alone are going to be astronomical. As someone said on Fandom Wank during the HP Lexicon debacle — They do know My Cousin Vinny was a film, not a documentary or strategy guide, right? If you insist on cheating the system in a flamboyant fashion, for the love of God, save assets for a good attorney. And don't fucking file for bankruptcy!
I'm less surprised by the sheer gall of what they tried to pull off than the stupidity of filing for bankruptcy. Do they not understand that while a landlord or utility company is welcome to file suit against them in small claims court, it's an entirely different matter when the government is involved? Wow.
I suddenly feel a lot more okay about KERF! I bet she gathers up all of her documents and takes them to her accountant a month early, smug in her planning, because she is that person.
(Also, am I the only one thinking of the episode of The Simpsons in which Homer gets into tax fraud, does the return at the last minute, and claims Bart as four people and Maggie as a war veteran? IF I DON'T SEE IT IT'S NOT ILLEGAL!)
