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This just went from "Wow The Completionist is woefully negligent with this charity in the memory of his Mom" to "Damn this whole family might be facing prison time"

What's sad is if Open Hand has "gotten away" with this for over 9 years and only got found out because two youtubers decided to investigate them think of how many more charities are getting away with it that aren't being investigated.

Guys, let's not jump to conclusions. Maybe his mom's dying wish was for him to exploit her disease and embezzle charity funds in her name.

Jesus Christ, I'm on a board of directors of a small organisation and we have to pay an accountant just to double check everything we do with our money. The fact that this guy runs a charity with notable sponsors and donations and have zero accountability piss me off.

Imagine opening a charity for your late mom just to scam people. Like wtf. That's soulless.

Turns out they're named "The Open Hand" because they are a slap in the face of every single person who made a donation.

If you were so passionate about something that you started your own charity wouldn't you be excited to hear what the money was doing?? That's why it makes zero sense to me that he knew nothing for 10 years

I don't understand why people would be angry with reporting this. It's not 'manifesting' a charge. If he and his family did something wrong, they should be investigated and charged. It's not doing wrong to them. Committing fraud was the wrong. Asking for an investigation is the only way of getting justice for the people whose donations were stolen and for the people who should have been helped but weren't.

Also, let's be real. This type of behavior is the reason why people are hesitant to donate to charities

It’s such a shame that all of this was built on the legacy of a woman who went through terrible suffering

"I've seen people who've said we've been manifesting criminal charges by pushing people to report this". Guess what, if there's nothing illegal then the government will say have a nice day and move on. It's only a problem if there's a problem.

Let's just face the known facts here: 1. Jirard claimed that he didn't realize the money was just piling up in the 501c for years. 2. Jirard also said that he and the charity weren't sure on what organizations and research programs were the best to donate the money to yet. 3. Jirard never told anyone the plan was to keep the money in the account until it was decided which orgs and research programs were best to give the money to, as he supposedly didn't know that the money was sitting in the 501c for years (I refer you back to no. 1) 4. Jirard openly named charities and research programs in many charity livestream events he did. 5. I refer you back to no. 2, and ask, does that make sense? How could he and his charity not be sure on who to give the money to yet, if he only recently realized the money was sitting there waiting to be donated. Meanwhile he named programs and charities in his livestreams as if they were receiving the donations, but they weren't reported in filings. 6. Jirard himself said this amounts to a big screw up, AND claims the money is all still there, so he obviously thinks he made a mistake somewhere even if some don't. 7. If the money IS all still there, then you can't say it's gone to the organizations he's said in his livestreams so far, and it is confirmed to have not in that case. I could keep listing more and drawing attention to the contradictions, but I think we all get the picture here. And it's not pretty.

I think it's extremely scummy that he invokes his mum's name/condition whilst scamming money. he's the type of person that makes me skeptical of charities

I'm calling it now. Jirard is going to come out with a "Are you happy now? Going around ruining people's lives? My family's lives? For views?" and it's going to go over terribly.

Man, $600k could EASILY have funded a Ph.D or two working in a Neuro lab to find links and investigate proteins in brain cells. This is sad.

"Technically, everything is above board and legal. It's just highly immoral what we're doing here". Would you buy used anything from this man?

They fought dementia by becoming dementia and "forgetting" to donate any money. True dedication.

In the initial videos, the way Jirard went from "I don't know who to send the money to" to "I know who to send the money to and I'm about to" to "Why don't you tell me who to send the money to" really says it all for me.

I’ve been a consumer of Jirard’s content for a long long time now, and in the first part of this investigation I was very hesitant. But as of now, I just can’t bring myself to even try and be on his side anymore. Thank you for the eye opening insight

The idea that he was working with these big-name foundations year after year and they never discussed how much was donated to them in the previous year is completely unbelievable. He definitely knew the whole time that the money was not being donated.

I’ve heard and read multiple comments that said, “But he’s such a nice guy.” Of course he’s a nice guy. If you’re running a huge scam, you _better_ come off as a nice guy. If you’re an asshole, there’s a greater chance that people are gonna start looking into your “charitable organization.”

This just goes to show: never make donations via middle-men. Always donate directly to whoever you want to support.

By now its almost crystal clear that the entire family is acting fraudulently. I always found greg leaving as suspicious and i believe that was the best thing he ever did for himself

That physical copy of Persona 4 is really just vibing.

We went from “why haven’t they donated the money” to “something weird is up” to “this is a straight up scam.” Well, that escalated quickly.

The way he said “it doesn’t matter you’re gonna say whatever you want to” in that call immediately told me there is more to it than just not spending the money on research.

I remember working during the pandemic, my job involved helping abused and neglected elders get connected to resources while we were on lockdown. In Northern California resources for dementia and other cognitive related issues are so difficult to receive. I personally spoke with numerous charity and public ran organizations regarding these issues, and donations were in desperate need. Even 10k would have benefited dozens of lives during the brief window I had experienced these conversations, imagining how much hundreds of thousands of dollars would have helped is so extremely sad. I'm like unironically heartbroken. Man this really fucking sucks. TY for sharing.

I've been in the care-giving field a very long time, and have a lot of personal experiences with dementia, it's nothing to screw around with. It hurts those who suffer with it and their loved ones. I used to respect Jirard so much, but this has tanked that. Even being generous with the possibility there was pressure from the family to not act sooner, it's still scummy. As much as it hurts, thank you both again, truly and deeply, for investigating and bringing this to attention. Money needs to go to actual research and not lining pockets of the undeserved.

The Completionist is just completing the "Charity Fraud" side questline

Yeah, this isn't just Jirard, his whole family is going down. His father may be the mastermind, but he has been complicit this whole time.

Good reporting! As a CPA and auditor I’m impressed by the level of creative and investigative thought you’ve put into creating rough estimates of reportable income. Well done. As a KZfaq gaming consumer I think Jirard Is heading down Cryotic’s path and unless he shows the goods or is able to separate himself from the activities of his family, he and his company are fucked.

This really has been a terrible weekend for KZfaq grifters. First it was Karl Jobst and this video thoroughly taking down The Completionist, and then hbomberguy and Todd in the Shadows double-teamed James Somerton and more. And no, none of it is "drama". It's justice, at least as close as it gets on KZfaq. It's entertaining, but it's also just great to see people take the time to do real investigative journalism, looking out for the community and standing up to these thieves. Thank you!

It's crazy that there are apparently people that feel like this uncalled for or unfair. This isn't just "internet drama", this is illegal activity. It can't and shouldn't just be dismissed as youtube drama, this needs to be federally investigated asap.

For Jirard saying he didn't know about the money not being donated, it seems like he's trying to sweep the issue under the rug. Everything about this seems really shady.

“I assumed it was going to a charity, incorrectly.” Bro you and your brother run the “charity” Dudes a scammer and needs to go to jail

I despise how people like Gilly the kid are villainizing Karl and Muta and generally attacking anyone who’s been critical or questioning Jirard, I don’t care if you’re all gaming reviewers in a friend circle you can’t excuse charity fraud. A real friend is someone that calls out their friend and gives it to them when they need it most, and you don’t accidentally not donate money as a tax free charity for a decade. This whole situation is terrible and I’m glad its been brought to the public. I wish people like Ant Dude wouldn’t grand stand how nice of a person Jirard has been to him personally and downplay something so deliberately malicious as a “simple mistake” when he should be more offended and show sympathy for the charities that were screwed over and the victims and relatives of Alzheimer’s and dementia patients that never got the support they needed.

there's a reason he and his family are silent; they know it's over and they will already have been told by a lawyer to stay quiet. There's already a case against them filed in Michigan.

I've been involved in charity events like the golf tourney as an organiser, participant & even as a corporate sponsor representative, and I'd say that Muta is being _very_ generous with his guess-timates. A charity event should have relatively low expenses because people will donate products, services & volunteer their time to keep costs low & maximise funds raised. Venues will discount (if not provide free) venue hire & staff. Catering is usually donated... I'd bet Monster donated crates of drinks to the event _on top of_ the $8-10k sponsorship. Local printers make signs & flyers. Raffle prizes, catering equipment, transport, you name it... people want to do their bit to help, and often expect nothing more than a mention in the "thank you's" in return. That's why it's so important for the govt, IRS, etc to investigate this.... because every "charity" with a question mark over their heads destroys the trust the public & those businesses have, making it infinitely harder for genuine charities to fundraise.

Their revenue clearly doesn’t reflect their actual revenue, regardless of what any expenses are. CLEARLY money is being removed before being documented as revenue, so at this point it is most important to determine who is manipulating that money and how it is being used/spent/distributed. That right there is likely where the criminal activity is occurring, assuming they aren’t just wildly incompetent at accounting.

The hand turned out to be closed.

A decade ago Greg said Jirard was not who he said he was. Everyone was against him back then. I’m patiently waiting to see how this all plays out.

This is all so weird to me. When people donate to you in the name of a specific cause, you should already have a place you plan to donate to. You do *not* hoard the money. So, why would he even think “We have it all piled up in an account” is a good excuse? “We have the money! We’re just, uh…letting it age!”

The biggest scam he pulled was making people think hes a good person

New drinking game. Take a shot every "and again ladies and gentlemen" he drops

The irony in all of this is Karl and Muta have been as charitable as one can possibly be to Jirard in this scenario and still get accused of spreading baseless drama.

The funny thing is that if they had actually donated the revenue that they filed on their documents people probably would have thought that's that and they could have easily pocketed the extra, unaccounted for money. They were so incompetent at running this charity that they couldn't even scam people the right way.

You should bring somebody on that has experience in accounting, as I feel it'd add a lot to have somebody that can speak super confidently on this

I hope this "blood money" wasn't the cash he spent on saving Nintendo DS' shop games

My whole family is extremely susceptible to dementia. Both of my grandmas spent the last 15+ years of their lives confused, angry, and scared as they deteriorated over time not understanding what was happening to them, and it was so hard on the family too. Dementia is no joke. Probably one of the worst ways to die. Your brain is literally rotting away. So sad someone do this. We need as much research as possible to end this condition. How soulless of him to use his mother's name, too- that just shows sociopathy to me. Awful.

Everytime he brings up his mom, every video he's made about mental health, every feel good thing he's put out, being a Nintendo creator and shaking hands with Miyamito recently, it's all sullied.

Bro! The irony. Jamie lee curtis played a irs agent in her last movie!!!! Lmaoooo

Not going to lie. The idea of somebody using the name of a loved one, especially one's own mother or wife to commit international charity fraud for years is so cartoonishly evil to me, like it's Persona 5 villainy imo. On another topic, I see a lot of people bringing up Greg and why he left. From what I remember, the drama started because Greg had a kid on the way and he asked for more pay, at least temporarily since he helped create the Completionist alongside Jirard. Before then, he had never thought to get any sort of contract because he believed Jirard was his friend and that it wasn't necessary. However, because of this, he had no job security and as a result Jirard practically fired him. Jirard then goes onto KZfaq and says Greg left willingly and that they were still good friends, but Greg immediately refutes that on Twitter saying how he was initially going to just move on, but hearing Jirard try to save face by lying got him to speak up. In particular, Greg denies that they were still friends, and he denied leaving willingly and claimed it was over money and he said Jirard was not the man he thought he was. Turns out, friendship didn't seem to mean much to Jirard, rather what he cared most about was saving face. And personally, considering how well off Jirard and his family is, as well as how successful TOVG was at the time, I don't think it was unreasonable for Greg to ask for fair pay. When Jirard put his public image above doing the right thing or even just shutting up about it, that was when Greg asked to have the videos removed. Greg didn't want Jirard making money using Greg's likeness and also Greg didn't seem to want to have that be all he was known for. Unfortunately, Jirard's fans have harassed Greg for years. No matter where he went, he received hate from people angry that he dared to harm Jirard's public image, or mad that they can't watch those older episodes on KZfaq anymore (though these videos are all archived in several places so if you really wanted to see them you could). On the speculation he knew what was going on. I don't think there is any evidence to suggest that Greg was somehow in the know about Jirard scamming people. And if he did, I don't think he would have remained silent about it either. If he did actually know, then it would not reflect well on his character either. And since he was no longer friends with Jirard, he would have had no incentive to stay quiet.

“I couldn’t have committed a crime. That would be illegal.” Is my favorite defense.

Honestly the jokes about Completing his whole career will never stop being funny to me

Jail for the lot of these scummy scammers!

Charity scams, or even questionable practices, need to be addressed quickly because the longer the issues linger, the more damage is done to legitimate charities because public trust is affected.

Even BEST case scenario, he would be a complete scumbag. If it is what it seemingly is… he is absolutely evil. Using a charity and your dead mother’s legacy to scam people.

I see the Father Ted defense of "the money was just resting in my account" is going well for him.

Thank you for your diligence, and also for doing your level-best to be as fair and charitable as possible. This is an all-around disheartening situation. I feel bad for anyone who donated believing they were helping a good cause.

This rabbit hole is far darker and vile than most could have expected... Muta and Karl, Thank You for diving into this murk.

Pro tip to all the young people out there, especially the young people who rushed to TheCompletionist's defense in the past few weeks. It's OK to give people the benefit of the doubt, in fact it's a positive quality, but once you catch someone lying assume the worst from that point on, ESPECIALLY if money is involved.

The fact he used a family tragedy to take money from people is a new level evil.

I give this prison sentence the Completionist rating of: Complete it!

To simplify what Muta is saying; The revenue is net earnings, not after tax deductions alternative deductions via cost of production of the event etc. So they are taking in both 62,500 for the golf sponsored event and 132,000 from tiltify live stream charity event with the grant donation added. This means they are taking a total of 194,500 in total revenue for both events before any deductions whilst they are reporting a revenue of 136,700. A discrepancy of 60,000 or so that remains unaccounted for and unreported. This is all before ticket sales, raffle events, merch sales, youtube/twitch subscriptions/bits/Ad revenue, which again is all unaccounted for. They are already severely over what they have reported in their taxes and this appears to be consistent year to year.

The silence from Jirard is deafening and with all this in mind, his earlier behaviour is much more understandable. He focused on taking the L and just donating the money because he wanted you and Karl to be off his case. He wanted it to be a one and done expose drama video and he didn't want you to take a closer look at the underreported money. I always thought he sounded really guilty in the discord call.

I was raised by my Grandmother and when I was 16 she started to fall to dementia I took care of her until she passed when I was 32. Witnessing what it does to a person is extremely painful hearing about a scam for a charity for it leaves me incredibly angry and disappointed.

Gross revenue has to be reported, even if you lost money that year.

It's nuts that people like Pro Jerard are chiming in without even watching the video. If I heard these type of allegations about my friend, the second thing I'd do after reaching out to them, is look in to whats being said and if there was this many red flags around this type of situation, I'd be questioning him myself

Jirard answering that phone call must be one of the biggest regrets in his life lol

Moral of the story: if a KZfaqr talks about a charity and it really strikes a chord with you, no matter how much you trust that KZfaqr, if you want to donate, donate directly to a charity e.g. instead of donating at Indieland donate to an officially recognised dementia research charity

If I invoked my mother's name while performing shady deals with cancer research charity money, I wouldn't be able to live with myself, and she'd try her hardest to slap some sense into me from beyond the veil.

I hate how he keeps saying this charity is in honor of his late mother, while lying through his teeth about who their donations would be benefitting. You're not honoring your mother, you're sullying her good name.

My grandmother died earlier this week from complications of her own dementia. The fact that someone who has also gone through this and with his own mother no less, can do this type of shit is infuriating.

For not being able to find a charity to donate to, Jirard sure been name dropping a lot of them for years. Scam 100%.

I think is absolutely disgusting, and it's exacerbated by the fact he continues to say "I'm doing this because my mom was affected by it." Feels gross.

The downfall from being a loved content creator to a total scumbag for fraud is something admiring, now it makes sense that Karl Jobst made a video about him considering Jirard made a speedrun for his downfall

I wonder how much of this charity money is going to lawyers now

What’s so astonishing is that until this controversy Jirard had an impeccable reputation on KZfaq and multiple large content creators have spoken highly of him including Charlie. To go from that to literal charity fraud is one of the wildest 180s I’ve ever seen

The AFTD just tweeted. 600k has been donated by the Open Hand Foundation

Love your journalism and what you stand for Muta, hope this situation gets unraveled soon

Jirard is SO slimy. Every few years he's involved in some controversy about this or that but it's somehow never his fault. He always walks away clean, acting as if he was totally innocent the whole time. He's doing it here in the interviews, getting fake indignant about all of this "the money wasn't donated and that's NOT f***in cool". Gimme a break. This guy needs to get fried but I promise you this: he will claim complete ignorance, complete innocence, and claim that HE is the victim here. He'll say he wasn't taking advantage of people's good will, it was HIM that was getting taken for a ride all along! Poor Jirard! Don't let him get away with it. He was 100% involved in this, he was the public face of the organization for years, and the SOB is using his own mother's premature and tragic death to scam people. Please get him this time.

the absolutely insane part to me is that if they had just donated the money from livestreams and stuff then they couldve probably continued to keep the money from the golf tournament and merch without anyone ever really catching on.

The update I've been waiting for 👌

I totally agree with you Mudahar about reporting him. There are way too many lies and manipulation at play here. People are saying that maybe the money just got mismanaged "bullshit". A lot of planning goes into setting up those charity events and one of the easiest and most important parts is just giving a check to the said charity for all the money that you accumulated. If they truly do have all the money in an account somewhere, there's nothing stopping them from waiting until it reaches a million dollars and then disappearing.

Wow, even hiding money gifted from Jamie Lee Curtis. I hope she sees this, tbh. This is disgusting.

This makes me so upset. I work in a nursing home. Primarily in the dementia unit most days. It's such a sad disease. I really hope this gets investigated. It needs investigated. The money needs to go to charity. I don't care which one. Do what you said you'd do Jirard. Do better.

It was funny how quickly his "friends" came to defend him, I would investigate them too. Maybe the scam goes even further.

Jaime lee curtis daughter works for the completionist thats why shes part of that

Makes you really wonder about the instance of Jirard and Greg splitting up, dissolving their friendship in the process. People were so fast to villainize Greg when he departed from their show. Now it seems like he had good reason to distance himself from Jirard and is owed a pretty big apology from those who harassed him.

That's what we call money laundering, cleaning illegal funds by writing them off as tax free "Charity" donations. That family needs to be criminally investigated under RICO.

What angers me with the passion of a thousand suns is how so many people and fans alike are ignoring the evidence. Jirad not only knew about the donations but continued to advertise them. His interview with Karl and Mutar spoke volumes. He knew that he had been caught but instead of coming clean.

Video of the year right here for you. Great job.

What is so nefarious is that if you go back and listen to Jirard in the first 10 min of the video where he is saying that they donate to these specific organizations, his verbiage is always so muddled. Multiple times it sounds like he almost says specifically "the money goes to these organizations" or something explicit like that, but he stops just short to say they "work with" these organizations or something less than a direct lie. *This guy absolutely knew what he was doing the entire time.*

It's good to know that charity fraud and spitting on the memory of the mother is a family business.

This is so sad to hear. This definitely needs to be looked at by appropriate parties. Keep up the good work, Mutahar. 🖤

This is the greatest "again" of all time

This might explain why Jirard has to have his yearly Mea culpa where he talks about how he’s so depressed and just needs to fix things. Leading a fraudulent scam will do a lot to one’s mental health.

You know this just makes everyone feel even worse to those who gave the completionist Jirard the benefit of the doubt. Does he think this is going to blow over? $650k doesn't just go away without people asking questions especially to charity. Really hope the money gets to the research asap and Jirard better speak up. This is terrible.

Knew he was trash when he was cheering on Frosk while she burned down G4's revival.