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Daniel Penny’s Defense Fund over $1 Million After Manslaughter Charge in Jordan Neely Subway Death

New York Post

housands of donors raced to the aid of Marine Daniel Penny Saturday as a fund for his legal defense surpassed $1 million  –  a tsunami of support so massive it swamped the hosting website and disabled it for more than an hour.

“There was a big surge in traffic and our servers were temporarily overwhelmed,” Jacob Wells, co-founder of the giving platform GiveSendGo, told The Post.

Penny, 24, who placed Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on a Manhattan subway train on May 1, was arraigned Friday on a second-degree manslaughter charge and released on $100,000 bail.

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