Steve Bannon has pleaded not guilty in Manhattan criminal court to charges of defrauding donors to the 'We Build the Wall' fundraising campaign for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
, and allege that Bannon and "We Build the Wall" defrauded 430 Manhattan-based donors out of $33,600. Across New York state, there were more than 11,000 donors defrauded out of more than $730,000, according to the indictment.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, speaking at a news conference announcing the charges Thursday afternoon, said that We Build the Wall raised $15 million from donors across the country based on "false pretenses," citing a pledge organizers made that the group's president would take no salary. The quartet allegedly used some of the $25 million raised through "We Build the Wall" on personal expenses, including a luxury SUV, a golf cart, and cosmetic surgery, the federal indictment said."The defendants defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, under the false pretense that all of that money would be spent on construction," then-U.S.
Bannon's surrender Thursday makes him the third defendant pardoned by Trump to subsequently face charges brought by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. Ken Kurson, a former editor of the New York Observer, associate of Jared Kushner and speechwriter for Rudy Giuliani, was pardoned by Trump in a federal cyberstalking case. Kursonto two state-level misdemeanors that accused him of spying on his former wife's computer.
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