The Completionist breaks silence on investigation years after charity fraud allegations

Nearly two years after being accused of charity fraud, popular gaming YouTuber Jirard ‘The Completionist’ Khalil has given an update on the DOJ’s investigation into his case.

In November 2023, YouTubers Mutahar (SomeOrdinaryGamers) and Karl Jobst collectively accused Khalil and his charity, the Open Hand Foundation, of fraud.

Specifically, they alleged that the foundation withheld over $600,000 in donations for dementia research since being founded in 2014 and claimed that it failed to report other income.

In his video dissecting the situation, Jobst said that he was able to speak with Khalil.“Jirard assures us they still have the full amount of money and are looking to donate it as soon as possible,” he said. “However, due to Open Hand’s past dishonesty, I think we do need concrete proof of this donation when it happens.”

In December 2023, Khalil posted an 18-minute-long YouTube video addressing the scandal, in which he admitted to waiting too long to donate the funds and announced his departure from his role at Open Hand. Additionally, he revealed that he was able to secure the $600,000 to the Association of Frontotemporal Degeneration on November 29 of that year.

Still, he argued that he hadn’t done anything legally wrong and accused both Mutahar and Jobst of creating their exposé with “selfish intent,” saying he would take legal action against them.

In January 2024, Khalil made a brief appearance on Twitch, where he explained that he’d significantly downsized the team at Open Hand. He also clarified that he couldn’t say much more due to legal reasons and deleted the stream VOD shortly thereafter.

Khalil has been fairly quiet in the year and a half since then — but on September 25, 2025, he finally gave viewers a long-awaited update in a 45-minute-long YouTube video.

The Completionist says DOJ hasn’t wrapped up investigation after 1 year

In the video, Khlail revealed that Open Hand was mass-reported to law enforcement due to Jobst and Mutahar’s videos, resulting in a criminal investigation into the matter by the Department of Justice.

The DOJ told Khalil that they’d wrapped up their investigation in Fall 2024 and would reach out to schedule a final interview to “clear up any lingering questions” — but nearly a year later, no such meeting has been scheduled.

Frustrated, Khalil admitted that he needed to “move on” from the situation and promised to give viewers the full results of the investigation, “whatever it says.”

“I was constantly told by the Department of Justice that this is the final meeting, and the final meeting was right around the corner,” he said. “But officially, now, over a year has passed since then. I didn’t want to speak publicly about this whole investigation until I had those results in my hand, hence my silence all this time.

“The honest truth is that the Department of Justice will not respond to any emails, despite telling Open Hand’s lawyers that they’re interested in one final meeting to close the case.”

Khalil went on to say that he was “absolutely confident that the accusations of fraud and embezzlement will be proven false,” but admitted that he made “serious moral mistakes” and “misleading statements” that resulted in the confusion surrounding Open Hand’s operations.

“All of this is on me,” he continued. “Even though it wasn’t exactly how I imagined how things would go, my goal was always to make sure this money was donated to the right place, as quickly as possible, and I’m immensely thankful that it got done.”

The Completionist apologizes for “empty promises” & heralds “new beginning” for channel

He went on to break down of his side of events, revealing that he’d had disagreements with his family about Open Hand’s donations, resulting in a bureaucratic slowdown as he attempted to donate the funds to the right organizations as quickly as possible in the midst of losing his job at G4 and restructuring his own content team.

“I learned the hard way that the charity world moves at a glacial pace, and I had been touting all these organizations all that we had been doing for many years, only for it to be a bunch of empty promises,” he explained.

In the end, Khalil took accountability for not “partnering with the organization directly, making things right from the beginning, and not cared about restricted donations or where the money was going.”

He went on to say that this marks a “new beginning” for himself and his channel, saying he will make “entirely new kinds of videos” for his audience.