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Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have charged former Trump campaign advisor Steve Bannon with fraud.
Prosecutors announced they arrested and charged Bannon, US military veteran Brian Kolfage, and two others in the scheme to defraud donors to the tune of $25 million.
“The defendants secretly schemed to pass hundreds of thousands of dollars to Kolfage, which he used to fund his lavish lifestyle,” Acting US Attorney Audrey Strauss said.
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Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have charged former Trump campaign advisor Steve Bannon and three others with fraud in connection to the private “We Build the Wall” fundraising campaign.
On Thursday, prosecutors announced they had arrested and charged Bannon, Brian Kolfage, and two others in a plot to defraud donors to the tune of $25 million in an effort to privately build a border wall. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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