A fact from Conscience Fund appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 April 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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One question that springs to mind - most money sent to the fund is, obviously, by cheque. This makes the source identifiable, which makes me wonder if there's a stated policy to not keep records of the names of "donors", or has any enterprising prosecutor ever tried to use money sent to the fund as evidence in some way? Shimgray | talk | 15:35, 5 April 2009 (UTC)Reply
None of the articles I read while researching this article mention any prosecutions related to donations. The wording of news articles suggests several reasons for this. Instead of personal checks, many donations are sent with unsigned notes and with cash or money orders and thus provide no identifying information beyond a postmark. There are also statute of limitations considerations as the donations often arrive years after the motivating event. The majority of donations also appear to be fairly small (stolen staplers or reused postage stamps) and thus not worth the cost and effort of prosecution. --Allen3talk 00:30, 6 April 2009 (UTC)Reply
