Media caption "James said a medical condition made it hard for him to work, but God had always looked after him", reports Pia Harold 
 
 Donations of more than $110,000 (£67,000) have poured in from across the US for a Boston homeless man who returned a lost bag with $42,000 in it. 
 
 Glen James alerted police after he found the backpack containing cash and traveller's cheques last weekend, and the bag's owner was then tracked down. 
 
 A complete stranger later started an online fund for Mr James after reading media reports about his honesty. 
 
 The man, Ethan Whittington, now plans to meet Mr James to give him the money. 
 
 This isn't only about rewarding a great guy. I think it's a statement to everyone in America Ethan Whittington, Fund starter 
 
 Mr Whittington, who lives in Midlothian, Virginia, said he was so overwhelmed by Mr James' honesty that he decided to start the fund. 
 
 "The fact that he's in the situation he is, being homeless, it blew my mind that he would do this,'' Mr Whittington was quoted as saying by the Associated Press. 
 
 He said his idea of starting donations on a crowdfunding website for Mr James "caught on like wildfire ever since". 
 
 "It's brought me a lot of hope. This isn't only about rewarding a great guy. I think it's a statement to everyone in America. 
 
 "If we come together and work toward one thing and work together, then we can make it happen." 
 
 Meanwhile, Mr James, a former Boston courthouse employee, said that he would not have kept "even a penny" of the money he had found in the backpack - even if he were desperate. ||||| A fund set up for a Boston homeless man who turned in a backpack he found filled with more than $40,000 in cash and traveler's checks has raised more than twice that much. 
 
 Glen James flagged down a police officer Saturday after he found a backpack containing $2,400 in cash and nearly $40,000 in traveler's checks at the South Bay Mall. 
 
 The man who lost the backpack told workers at a nearby store at the mall and they called police, who later returned the backpack to him. 
 
 Midlothian, Va., resident Ethan Whittington read media accounts of James' honesty and started a fund for him on the crowd-funding website gofundme.com. By late Thursday afternoon donations were at nearly $111,000 and growing. 
 
 THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. 
 
 A fund for a homeless man who turned in a backpack with more than $40,000 inside has collected nearly $98,000 _ an overwhelming response that is a "statement to everyone in America," according to the man who started the donation drive. 
 
 Glen James flagged down a police officer Saturday after he found the backpack containing $2,400 in cash and almost $40,000 in traveler's checks at the South Bay Mall in Boston. The man who lost it told workers at a nearby store and they called police, who later returned the backpack to him. 
 
 Boston police honored James with a special citation Monday. After reading media accounts of James' honesty, a stranger, Ethan Whittington, started a fund for James on the crowdfunding site gofundme.com. By Thursday morning, $97,889 in donations had been made. 
 
 Whittington, a 27-year-old from Midlothian, Va., who is an accounts manager for a marketing firm, said he decided to try to raise money for James after reading about his honesty. Now Whittington says he's overwhelmed by the generosity of strangers. 
 
 "The fact that he's in the situation he is, being homeless, it blew my mind that he would do this (turn in the backpack)," Whittington said Wednesday. 
 
 "It's caught on like wildfire ever since," he said. "It's brought me a lot of hope. ... This isn't only about rewarding a great guy. I think it's a statement to everyone in America. If we come together and work toward one thing and work together, then we can make it happen." 
 
 Whittington said he's also encountered some skeptics who question whether his efforts to raise money for James could be a scam. 
 
 "It's almost kind of depressing, to do something for a great cause, and you've got the naysayers out there," he said. 
 
 "I just wish there was some way I could 100 percent reassure everyone. I would be publicly humiliated if I scammed people now." 
 
 Whittington said he has spoken with James on the phone and hopes to come to Boston soon to work out how the money will be distributed to James. He said his new fundraising goal for James is $250,000, up from the $50,000 he originally hoped to raise. ||||| Glen James / CBS Boston 
 
 (CBS) BOSTON - First, Boston homeless man Glen James found a bag containing a passport, cash and travelers checks worth more than $42,000, and returned it - all of it - to police. 
 
 Monday, the city's police department honored James for his honesty. 
 
 Now, a Virginia man has helped raised nearly $100,000 for the homeless hero, according to CBS Boston. 
 
 Ethan Withington heard James' story and set up a fund on the internet fundraising website Go Fund Me. 
 
 CBS Boston reports his goal is to raise $250,000 so James can buy a house. 
 
 "When you hear stories like that it's something positive compared to the negative stories we're inundated with on a constant basis," Withington said. "It's hard to not want to help somebody. I want to make a positive impact on his life, not just hand him a $50,000 check." 
 
 The goal was to raise $50,000 but in one day, the site exceeded that goal and so a new goal was set. 
 
 The fundraising drive has so far garnered at least $88, 000 in contributions. 
 
 "I had no idea it would get as big as it has," Withington told CBS Boston. 
 
 "After all the stuff you hear on the news, you wonder about people," Withington said. "If we can get more people to do this we could completely change the world one person at a time." 
 
 Complete coverage of "homeless hero" Glen James on Crimesider ||||| Last October, the homeless man used his last $20 to buy gas for a woman , Kate McClure, who was stranded on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia. McClure, in return, created a GoFundMe campaign with her boyfriend Mark D'Amico to raise money for Bobbitt to thank him. 
 
 McClure and Bobbitt's story quickly transformed into a viral "feel-good" story, and the campaign, as of Friday night, raised a total of $402,706 within nine months. 
 
 The story is in the link guys. Thanks so much for even taking a quick look! Let's do something special https://t.co/MFugVz1mj2 #philly #love 
 
 But what started as a good deed has now devolved into an all-out feud. Bobbitt's lawyer says a large portion of money never reached his client. 
 
 "From what I can see, the GoFundMe account raised $402,000 and GoFundMe charged a fee of approximately $30,000. Mark D'Amico and Kate McClure gave Johnny about $75,000. There should be close to another $300,000 available to Johnny," Bobbitt's lawyer Chris Fallon told CNN on Friday. 
 
 Fallon says he and another attorney, Jacqueline Promislo, are working to get that money back. The goal, Fallon said, is to secure a guardian to manage that money so the 14,000 people who contributed to the GoFundMe campaign would know where their money is going. 
 
 A spokesperson for GoFundMe said the crowdfunding website "is looking into the claims of misuse regarding this campaign." 
 
 "When there is a dispute, we work with all parties involved to ensure funds go to the right place," GoFundMe's statement read. "We will work to ensure that Johnny receives the help he deserves and that the donors' intentions are honored." 
 
 Misuse, the company said, "is very rare on our platform." Misused campaigns make up "less than one-tenth of 1% of all campaigns." 
 
 Kate McClure helped raise more than $400,000 for Johnny Bobbitt Jr., a homeless man, to repay his kindness. 
 
 The relationship between Bobbitt and McClure began to deteriorate when she and her boyfriend bought Bobbitt a camper -- they originally promised him a house -- and parked it in their driveway in New Jersey, where Bobbitt lived until June, Promislo said. 
 
 "This was not his choice and he didn't have any say in the matter," Promislo said. "Johnny would have preferred to go back to North Carolina. That would have been a much better environment." 
 
 Bobbitt, a North Carolina native, "had no access to money or food" while living in the camper, Promislo said. "He didn't have any ability to take care of himself there." 
 
 Promislo said the camper was bought with the money from GoFundMe. McClure and D'Amico also bought Bobbitt a truck, which they drove. The truck ended up breaking down. 
 
 CNN has reached out to both McClure and D'Amico, but has not received a response. 
 
 In an interview with Megyn Kelly on NBC Monday, said that the camper was Bobbitt's choice. 
 
 "I asked him what his dream was, and he said 'to end up in Alaska in a travel trailer, living off the land, fishing and hunting,'" D'Amico told Kelly. "He picked it out, he bought the trailer." 
 
 Promislo told CNN Monday that was false. 
 
 "Nothing has been his choice," she said. 
 
 In the NBC interview, D'Amico said Bobbitt spent $25,000 on drugs in 13 days during the holiday season. "Every dollar he ever touched was used for drugs." 
 
 "That's absolutely incorrect," Promislo told CNN. 
 
 Fallon earlier admitted Bobbitt has an addiction problem, and said that was possibly a reason McClure didn't want to give him any more money. 
 
 "It's not heroin or opioids but another drug problem," Fallon said. 
 
 In an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer , McClure said she and D'Amico did what they could to help Bobbitt. The couple told the paper they gave Bobbitt more than half the money but are withholding the rest until he gets a job and is drug-free. 
 
 D'Amico told the Inquirer that he controls the money but thinks neither he nor his girlfriend did anything wrong. He said giving such a large amount of money to an addict is like giving someone a loaded gun. 
 
 The Inquirer also said Bobbitt wondered how McClure paid for a new BMW and went on vacations to California, Florida and Las Vegas. McClure said the couple used their own money for the BMW and vacations. D'Amico told the Inquirer he spent $500 of the GoFundMe money to gamble, but he paid the money back to the campaign. 
 
 In the NBC interview, D'Amico said that spending was with Bobbitt's permission. 
 
 Promislo disputed that statement Monday. 
 
 "Mr. Bobbitt never consented to Mark spending any money, for gambling or anything." 
 
 Promislo also told CNN she can't speak to the claims made in the Inquirer. 
 
 At Kelly's prompting, D'Amico said Monday that he was in the process of finding a trustee for the money and would open his books to a forensic accountant. 
 
 Promislo said she welcomed the move, but added that her requests for transparency had so far gone unanswered. She said D'Amico had canceled a scheduled meeting Monday morning to discuss the matter. 
 
 Promislo said Bobbitt is currently living on the streets of Philadelphia "in harm's way." He was very successful at a methadone clinic before, she said. He had detoxed himself, but she said he is not physically in detox now.
– Whoever said no good deed goes unpunished probably never got six figures out of the act. But turning in a lost backpack with $42,000 in cash and traveler's checks inside has paid off for Glen James, who's raked in more than $130,000 in donations from across the country as of this writing. It all comes from an online fund, set up by a stranger touched by the Good Samaritan and homeless Bostonian, the BBC reports. "The fact that he's in the situation he is, being homeless, it blew my mind that he would do this,'' Ethan Whittington tells the AP. Whittington, 27, says the crowdfunding campaign on gofundme.com "caught on like wildfire" and he's talked with James on the phone about visiting Boston to hand over the money. Since hitting his $50,000 goal, the marketing accounts manager has bumped that number up to $250,000—so James can buy a house, CBS Boston reports. "After all the stuff you hear on the news, you wonder about people," Withington says. "If we can get more people to do this we could completely change the world, one person at a time."