This story has been updated with additional information. Kolfage also pleaded guilty to two counts of filing a false tax return and one count of wire fraud in connection with filing a false tax return. Kolfage and another Bannon associate, Andrew Badolato, were indicted on federal charges alongside Bannon and each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in April 2022. FBI Director Christopher Wray and House Oversight Chairman James Comer are scheduled to meet in the coming days as the Kentucky Republican continues to escalate his investigation into President. Prosecutors allege Bannon and others defrauded donors in a fundraising effort called “We Build The Wall.”īannon and an associate, Brian Kolfage, promised donors that the campaign, which ultimately raised more than $25 million, was “a volunteer organization” and that “100% of the funds raised … will be used in the execution of our mission and purpose,” according to an indictment.īut instead, according to prosecutors, Bannon, through a nonprofit under his control, diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars to Kolfage and others. The Manhattan district attorney’s office and New York attorney general’s office announced state charges against Bannon last summer. He was first indicted on federal charges in 2020 but pardoned by Trump in his final days in office. A favicon also known as a shortcut icon, website icon, tab icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon, is a file containing one or more small icons associated with a.
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In a brief court hearing Thursday, the judge said Bannon’s trial would begin – roughly two months after former President Donald Trump will be on trial before the same judge, Juan Merchan, in a separate case related to falsifying business records tied to hush money payments.īannon has pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of conspiracy, money laundering and scheme to defraud.
A New York state judge has set a trial date for Steve Bannon’s fundraising fraud case for May of next year. A debt limit deal is still not yet close at hand for House Republicans and the White House as lawmakers leave the nation’s capital and the risk of a first-ever default grows.
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