Adam Frey has beaten cancer!

DH · 03-28-2008, 02:18 AM

Originally Posted by HatchetJack

Get him to Pittsburgh asap. Ithaca is not where he needs to be for medical treatment.

Adam got back home to Pittsburgh about an hour and a half ago and updated his blog:

www.adamfrey.us

Hatchet, I read your other post about getting a lawyer to help set up a fund. Have you done this before? Any advice or input would be helpful. I'd like to help Adam as much as possible so he can just focus on getting better and not have to do this kind of stuff but I'm not sure what is the best way to start with this one.

Do we have any lawyers on this board who might be able to give me some advice on setting up and official fund? That might help with the eligibility stuff too since the money would be going to a fund and not to Adam directly. Please email me directly with any words of wisdom. hobeika@post.harvard.edu or dhobeika@gmail.com

HatchetJack · 03-28-2008, 06:49 AM

I will find out what is required. Probably better done by someone who knows the Freys. Will let you know when I hear back.

goferphan · 03-28-2008, 08:14 AM

I would assume caveman.lawyer is a lawyer but I could be wrong.

HatchetJack · 03-28-2008, 08:24 AM

ok. spoke with an attorney. He needs to setup a trust. There are multiple options but the fastest method is to setup a family trust. The donations have to be used towards medical related costs. In this setup, the donations can be tax deducted. There are a couple of options but the fastest involves Adam and his family filling out some short paper work to generate a fund ID.

I will get the form name and ID shortly and pass it along. If Adam has no legal recourse or someone in Pittsburgh to coordinate this I could step in and help. However, I think this should be done by Adam and his family and not by someone he does not know.

I am guessing the legal costs would not be huge and if manageable, I'd be glad to make that my donation to thr fund once built

DH · 03-28-2008, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by HatchetJack

ok. spoke with an attorney. He needs to setup a trust. There are multiple options but the fastest method is to setup a family trust. The donations have to be used towards medical related costs. In this setup, the donations can be tax deducted. There are a couple of options but the fastest involves Adam and his family filling out some short paper work to generate a fund ID.

I will get the form name and ID shortly and pass it along. If Adam has no legal recourse or someone in Pittsburgh to coordinate this I could step in and help. However, I think this should be done by Adam and his family and not by someone he does not know.

I am guessing the legal costs would not be huge and if manageable, I'd be glad to make that my donation to thr fund once built

Thanks a billion for looking into this. I will forward the info to Adam and see how they want to proceed.

Could you email me at my email address in the post above to I have your contact info and may contact you directly with questions and what not? Thanks!

Tony Rotundo · 03-28-2008, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by DH

Thanks a billion for looking into this. I will forward the info to Adam and see how they want to proceed.

Could you email me at my email address in the post above to I have your contact info and may contact you directly with questions and what not? Thanks!

Danielle,

These people (PledgeDirect) helped with a fund for a wrestling coach friend who died leaving behind three kids and a pregnant wife (sadly, one year anniversary of that is in two days).

They are good people:

http://www.pledgeconnect.com/

I worked with Craig Wilding . They work with the bank that the fund is set up with. This was in NY, mind you, so not sure about PA.

It was the Jon Vesper fund, if you want to drop my name.

Tony

PS: Fund is closed (raised enough to pay off the mortgage!), but here's the link, you can customize their pages a bit:

https://secure.pledgeconnect.com/don...aspx?jonvesper

Tony Rotundo · 03-28-2008, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by Tony Rotundo

Danielle,

These people (PledgeDirect) helped with a fund for a wrestling coach friend who died leaving behind three kids and a pregnant wife (sadly, one year anniversary of that is in two days).

They are good people:

http://www.pledgeconnect.com/

I worked with Craig Wilding . They work with the bank that the fund is set up with. This was in NY, mind you, so not sure about PA.

It was the Jon Vesper fund, if you want to drop my name.

Tony

PS: Fund is closed (raised enough to pay off the mortgage!), but here's the link, you can customize their pages a bit:

https://secure.pledgeconnect.com/don...aspx?jonvesper

craig.wilding@infintechllc.com

DH · 03-29-2008, 01:28 AM

Originally Posted by Tony Rotundo

craig.wilding@infintechllc.com

Thanks Tony! This is really helpful. I will look into this. It's great to have you on thewrestlingtalk!

(For those of you who haven't met Tony, he is the awesome photographer for tech-fall.com who took the infamous Churella - Caldwell "your wrestling skills are no match for my crane style" picture at Vegas).

JPOConnorFan · 03-30-2008, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by DH

Thanks Tony! This is really helpful. I will look into this. It's great to have you on thewrestlingtalk!

(For those of you who haven't met Tony, he is the awesome photographer for tech-fall.com who took the infamous Churella - Caldwell "your wrestling skills are no match for my crane style" picture at Vegas).

That was a great pic.

DH · 04-02-2008, 01:36 AM

Hey guys,

So Adam was supposed to have his first chemo treatment today but it didn't happen.

It turns out that they misdiagnosed it and it's NOT Hodgkin's. It's a rare form of testicular cancer that developed in his internal organs instead of his testicles. Weird, huh?

Adam is managing to keep his sense of humor through all of this (see his latest blog posting at www.adamfrey.us ) but this is insane. He might have to move to Indianapolis, as they have a better cancer treatment center there for what he is dealing with, but he would like to stay in Pittsburgh if possible.

I have been in email contact with the NCAA compliance officer from Cornell and the Cornell Athletic department is probably going to be setting up an official trust fund for Adam in the near future so it complies with all NCAA regulations. I will keep you posted as to when it's set up and people can make donations.

Thanks!

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