Arrested Steve Banon, former Trump advisor, for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars to build the Mexican wall
- In the 'We Build a Wall' campaign, Steve Bannon and three other friends, all of whom are important personalities, are charged with appropriating some of the $25 million obtained through private donations.
The arrests have taken place this Thursday for an alleged crime of fraud for the use of money raised for the Mexican wall building campaign, reported New York prosecutor Audrey Strauss.
According to the Prosecutor's Office, Bannon and Company used the campaign funds to meet the personal expenses they suffered. Former U.S. President Donald Trump advisor is charged with spending hundreds of thousands of dollars. A statement is expected this Thursday at the New York Hearings Hall. The other three detainees are Timothy Shea, appointed in May as Deputy Administrator of the Acting Drugs Control Directorate, Brian Kolfage, a veteran of the Iraq War, and Andrew Badolato.
"Kolfage, Bannon, Badolato and Shea received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the donors of the campaign 'We Build a Wall' and used it in a way that did not respond to the public intention of the organization," the prosecutor's statement states. "Bannon received a million dollars from a non-profit organization under his control, and at least hundreds of thousands of dollars were allocated to cover his personal expenses," he added.
According to the prosecutor's indictment, the defendants "scammed" hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on the interest of funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, ensuring that all that money would be spent on construction. While Brian Kolfage assured donors that he would not receive a penny, "the defendants secretly gave him thousands of dollars he used to fund his pompous life," he added.
The Prosecutor's Office accuses them of "conspiracy to commit electronic fraud" and of "conspiracy to launder money" to detainees. Both charges face a maximum sentence of 20 years in jail for reckless murder. Philip R. Inspector Bartlett has stated that "this case should alert other scammers that there is no one above the law, even if it is a war veteran or a millionaire political strategist."
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