Two leaders of the "We Build the Wall" online fundraising campaign ...
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Two leaders of the "We Build the Wall" online fundraising campaign have pled guilty to defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors. In 2020 ...Read full article
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Quick Glance: Steve Bannon to Face Trial for 'We Build the Wall' Fraud in May 2024
- Conservative strategist Steve Bannon will go on trial in May 2024 for allegedly defrauding donors who gave money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
- Judge Juan Manuel Merchan set the trial date for May 28, 2024, after realizing that the originally announced date falls on Memorial Day next year when courts will be closed.
- Bannon pleaded not guilty in September last year.
- However, according to investigators, the money was used to enrich Bannon and others involved in the project.
We Build The Wall founder sentenced to 4 years in prison: NEW YORK (AP) — The co-founder of a fundraising group linked to Steve Bannon that promised to help ...
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Quick Glance: Bannon ally sentenced to four years in jail for Trump border-wall fraud
- Bannon's pardon covers federal crimes but not suspected state offences.
- Another former Bannon associate, Andrew Badolato, 58, pled guilty and was sentenced to three years in jail.
- Along with Bannon, Trump's former campaign chair and White House strategist, Badolato and Kolfage led the fundraising effort.
- He also pled guilty to tax evasion charges.
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Quick Glance: Steve Bannon postpones the "We Build The Wall" litigation by ghosting his lawyers
- Right-wing agitator Stephen Bannon has been ghosting his defense lawyers in his "We Build The Wall" charity scam case for months, according to those lawyers, who appeared in Manhattan state court on Thursday.
- Schoen informed Judge Juan Merchan during the court hearing that Bannon was no longer speaking with him or Mitchell.
- Merchan suggested that the Manhattan District Attorney's office "set aside" discovery evidence for whatever Bannon hires.
- In August 2020, federal prosecutors in Manhattan filed a similar set of fraud allegations against Bannon and three other people, alleging that they had exploited nonprofit funding to enrich themselves.
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Bannon asks to change lawyers in wall building fraud case: Former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon on Thursday asked to change his representation in the fraud case ...
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Steve Bannon Dumping Lawyers In Border Wall Fraud Case: A judge questioned whether the move was simply a ploy to delay the former White House strategist's trial ...
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Incoming Kansas attorney general fined for 2020 Senate campaign finance violations
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Quick Glance: Kansas Attorney General punished for campaign finance violations
- The Federal Election Commission imposed a $30,000 fine on Kris Kobach, the incoming Kansas Attorney General, and a former private border wall organization he was affiliated with for violating campaign finance laws during his unsuccessful 2020 Senate campaign.
- Kobach admitted to illegally accepting an in-kind contribution from We Build the Wall, a group linked to Steve Bannon that ran a fundraising campaign for a private border wall but was embroiled in fraud allegations.
- In 2019, Kobach's campaign rented We Build the Wall's email list at a significantly reduced rate.
- Kobach narrowly won the election for Kansas attorney general, defeating Democrat Chris Mann 51% to 49% in a reliably red state.
Steve Bannon’s lawyers tell NYC judge he’s stopped talking to them at fiery court hearing
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Bannon Battles It Out in Border Wall Case — With His Own Lawyers
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Kobach faces $30,000 FEC fine for accepting illegal donation in 2020 Senate campaign
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DOJ Tried to Hide Report Warning That Private Border Wall in Texas Could Collapse
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In Retrial, Man Who Helped Run Border Wall Charity Is Convicted: Timothy Shea was the only one of four defendants in the federal case to face a jury ...
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Jury convicts Colorado man in second 'We Build the Wall' trial: A federal jury in Manhattan on Friday convicted a Colorado man who was charged along with former ...
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- Trump stated on Truth Social that the only person worse than James was Engoron.
- "His name is Arthur Engoron & he is a vicious, biased, and mean 'rubber stamp' for the Communist takeover of the great & prosperous American company that I have built over a long period of years,"rubber stamp" for the Communist takeover of the great & prosperous American company that I have built over a long period of years," Trump tweeted.
- Engoron will consider James' request for an independent monitor to oversee the Trump Organization's actions at a hearing on Thursday, after she claimed the corporation was taking steps to avoid potential penalties, such as forming a new entity called Trump Organization II.
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Quick Glance: The Indictment of Bannon Reveals Damning Texts on the "Build the Wall" Scheme
- "[No] deals I don't approve; and I pay [Brian Kolfage] so what's to worry," Bannon texted an associate on Jan. 15, 2019, according to the indictment.
- Local prosecutors are attempting to charge him with offenses that were previously pardoned by former President Donald Trump.
- , according to a person close to the investigation.
- Kolfage, who is accused of paying himself more than $350,000 in the indictment, pled guilty in April.
- But Bannon's case was never heard.
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- Bannon was charged with two charges of criminal money laundering, two counts of felony conspiracy, and one count of felony scheme to defraud.
- The "Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1" is WeBuildtheWall, Inc.
- "On or about March 7, 2019, Bannon caused Unindicted Co-Conspirator Entity 1 to transfer $20,000 to Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1," according to the indictment.
- Unindicted Co-Conspirator 2 told Bannon in text messages on or about January 11, 2019, that this commitment "removes all self interest taint on this" and "gives [Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1] saint hood," it added.
Colorado man found guilty in "We Build the Wall" fraud trial: A Colorado businessman was convicted Friday of charges that he and others siphoned hundreds of ...
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Colorado businessman set for retrial over border wall fund: A Colorado businessman returns to New York Monday for a retrial on charges that he cheated thousands ...
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Kansas AG candidate Kris Kobach resigns from We Build the Wall nonprofit accused of money laundering
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- Holocaust parallels and Soros theories dominate Republican discourse in the United States.
- Bannon's "Soros-backed" remark came after Republican Sen.
- Two months earlier, the Republican Party of Minnesota apologized for showing a video depicting Soros as a puppet master manipulating and managing two Jewish Democrats.
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