Philadelphia lawyer says his GoFundMe campaign was 'just a joke'

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:

GOFUNDME has been used to raise more than $15 million this year in the Philadelphia area alone, benefiting gunshot victims, Benjamin Franklin's gravestone, an LGBTQ homeless shelter, Philly Jesus and a New Jersey family that lost everything in a house fire.

But Steven Kaplan, an attorney for the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee who has a $316,000 contract with the city's Department of Human Services, logged onto the social fund-raising site last week to create a page for a cause near and dear to his heart:

His own retirement in Florida.

"It has been very difficult flying back and forth to my condo every weekend for the past 10 years," wrote Kaplan, who is paid more than any city employee, including Mayor Kenney, to collect child-support payments for DHS. "I will keep you in my daily prayers for anything you can do to make this dream a reality."

Kaplan, who is pictured on GoFundMe sitting behind the wheel of a black Mercedes convertible, wrote that his city contract is being terminated soon, so he plans to move to his Williams Island condo.

Imagine that.