Wiley said on Instagram on Friday that he won’t take a personal or business income tax deduction for the donation. Because of Venmo restrictions, he said, he will distribute about $18,760 to one organization per week for the next four weeks. The first recipient, he said, will be the Santee Nation Disbursement Fund.

Wiley did not respond to two attempts to reach him Friday.

Wiley is good friends with Peterson’s son, Peterson said, but Peterson doesn’t endorse Wiley’s fundraiser.

On Friday, Peterson’s office sent Stepanek and Wiley letters and emails. The letter requests that they keep the Attorney General’s Office informed of their efforts “by providing the undersigned investigator with an itemization of all receipts and disbursements related to your fundraising activity.” The information should be provided no later than April 8 and at 30-day intervals after that, the letter said.

The letter went on cite Nebraska statutes noting that “it is considered a deceptive trade practice to obtain ‘money or property by knowingly false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises.’ ”