I never gave Jack Monroe any money, but I was taken in by her for a while. There were always some red flags - for me, mostly that her recipes didn't consider time costs. And it was hard to believe that her loving middle class family wouldn't help her at all.
The fact that Jack Monroe got a column in the Guardian about her life in extreme poverty at a time when her annual earnings comfortably exceeded mine (even allowing for her having a son to look after) does rather annoy me. Seems like peak Guardian too. Harrumph. 1/
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But I shrugged them aside because I liked her. Gives me more insight into how EA ignored red flags about SBF for so long.
That said, if I had been going to invest either serious money or reputation in Jack Monroe I would have done proper due diligence.
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I think there is a good chance that she has actually committed fraud - spending money intended for her book on herself. If her bookkeeping is really that bad, I doubt she kept that money separately. We will see.
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Oh god, I also hilariously assumed that she didn't have any money because she'd been far to altruistic - I assumed she was giving too much money away and not charging enough for books etc.
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