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☆ Bannon co-defendant Shea sentenced to 5-1/4 years over 'We Build the Wall' fraud
  + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Luc Cohen | Thomson Reuters | Reports On The New York Federal Courts. Previously Worked As A Correspondent In Venezuela | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Timothy Shea's sentence was the longest imposed over the "We Build the Wall" campaign, which federal prosecutors said raised more than $25 million from hundreds of thousands of donors. Two other defendants, who pleaded guilty, received shorter prison terms. Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was also charged in the case, but Trump pardoned him in the final hours of his presidency. Two other defendants, the campaign's leader Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato, pleaded guilty and were sentenced in April to 4-1/4 years and three years in prison, respectively. Bannon was criminally charged last September by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg with state law violations arising from the wall campaign.
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☆ Bannon associate sentenced to more than 4 years for fraud over Trump border wall
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Luc Cohen | Thomson Reuters | Reports On The New York Federal Courts. Previously Worked As A Correspondent In Venezuela | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Kolfage, 41, pleaded guilty last year to misappropriating funds meant for the "We Build the Wall" campaign. Andrew Badolato, 58, another former Bannon associate, also pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison at the same hearing. "The fraud perpetrated by Mr. Kolfage and Mr. Badolato went well beyond ripping off individual donors," Torres told the hearing. He also pleaded guilty to tax charges. In September, Bannon, 69, was indicted in New York state court in Manhattan on money laundering and conspiracy charges over the planned wall.
☆ We Build The Wall founder sentenced to 4 years in prison
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
A third man involved in siphoning funds from the wall project, Colorado businessman Tim Shea, won't be sentenced until June. Kolfage, Badolato and Shea were not pardoned by Trump, leaving them to face the prospect of years in prison. As money poured into the cause, Kolfage and his partner, Shea, turned to Bannon and Badolato for help creating a nonprofit, We Build the Wall, Inc. "The fraudsters behind We Build The Wall injured the body politic," she said. Some sections of a border barrier were built by We Build the Wall on private lands, but the nonprofit is now defunct.
☆ Judge Sentences Trump Allies in ‘We Build the Wall’ Scheme
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Colin Moynihan | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
In 2019, Brian Kolfage, an Air Force veteran injured in Iraq, formed a nonprofit group to construct the border barrier that then-President Donald J. Trump had promised. It was called simply We Build the Wall. Mr. Kolfage had three co-founders: a Colorado entrepreneur named Timothy Shea; a Florida financier, Andrew Badolato; and Stephen K. Bannon, who had served as an adviser to Mr. Trump. Mr. Badolato and Mr. Bannon took significant control of day-to-day operations, according to federal prosecutors. Mr. Kolfage, who lost both legs and part of his right arm in Iraq, was the group’s public face, pledging that all money raised would go toward a wall between the United States and Mexico and that he would “not take a penny of compensation.”In 2020, however, prosecutors accused Mr. Badolato, Mr. Bannon, Mr. Kolfage and Mr. Shea of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars, with some going to personal expenses, like boat payments.
☆ Steve Bannon's 'We Build The Wall' is now a zombie charity. The only guy left is an unpaid lawyer whom a judge won't let quit.
  + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Steve Bannon's 'We Build the Wall' is officially a zombie charity — its last director quit Tuesday. The scam non-profit has one last victim: its defense lawyer, who said he hasn't been getting paid. The lawyer told a Manhattan judge he can't advise and defend a company with no 'human' client. He also has no prospect of getting paid, Weddle told the judge. Bannon was first charged with defrauding donors through the charity by federal prosecutors, in August 2020.
☆ Newly-elected Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach fined $30,000 by FEC for illegal contribution from 'WeBuildTheWall' scam organization
  + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Kris Kobach was fined $30,000 by the Federal Election Commission for accepting an illegal contribution. He was just elected Kansas Attorney General. "We Build The Wall," the group that contributed to Kobach's Senate campaign, has a colorful history of its own. But Bannon now faces similar charges from the New York State Attorney General and was arrested again in September 2022. The incoming state attorney general, who served as Kansas secretary of state from 2011 until 2019, rose to national prominence during the Trump administration for his anti-immigration views and claims of voter fraud.
☆ Steve Bannon's donor-fraud charges in New York include money laundering, conspiracy, scheme to defraud
  + stars: | 2022-09-08 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Steve Bannon has been charged in Manhattan with money laundering, conspiracy, and scheme to defraud. The charges are less severe than in the federal 'We Build the Wall' case Trump pardoned him on. Read Bannon's new 'We Build the Wall' donor-scam indictment here. A handcuffed Steve Bannon is escorted to his seat at the defense table in Manhattan Supreme Court on September 8, 2022. Kolfage and co-defendant Andrew Badolato, both of Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan in April and have yet to be sentenced.
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