The fundraisers for Officer Darren Wilson of the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department have surpassed $400,000, much more than the fundraisers for the kid he shot and killed. Wilson currently has no legal expenses to speak of, although even if the prosecutors never bring charges, a civil wrongful death claim is still a possibility. The kicker, of course, is that no one seems to know for certain what the $400,000+ is for, or where it is going:

This is one of those “read the whole thing” stories, because there’s just an unbelievable amount of Really Damn Sketchy going on. To sum up:

1. The founder of one of the GoFundMe efforts is either an anonymous teenage girl from somewhere near St. Louis, or is very much not that. Who’s to say?

2. A Facebook site fundraising for the officer has not contented itself to merely fundraise, but also “exhorted followers to start a petition against the GoFundMe page run by the attorneys for Brown’s family.”

3. Even the “tax attorneys” for the most credible site can’t figure out how to use the money yet. Is it tax deductible? Is it not?

4. The state representative publicly asserting that one of the major fundraising sites was operated by an anonymous teen, Rep. Jeffrey Roorda, is an ex-cop himself once fired for filing false statements (but no, that sort of thing is not really a career ender in law enforcement any more than it is in politics. If you’re aren’t sensing a trend yet in these things, there really is no hope for you.)