He allegedly participated in the embezzlement of funds collected from the public to finance the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico.
–Steve Bannon, former adviser to Donald Trump, was arrested Thursday for embezzlement, online fraud and misuse of corporate assets. He was scheduled to appear the same day in federal court for the Southern District of New York, which deals with financial crimes.
Bannon is accused of embezzling funds raised in a campaign to fund the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Taking up one of Donald Trump’s main campaign slogans in 2016, Bannon and his alleged accomplices, Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea, had titled their operation “We Build the Wall” (“We are building the wall”). They had raised over $ 25 million online.
According to the prosecutor’s office, “The defendants have abused hundreds of thousands of donors by taking advantage of their interest in funding a wall along the border to raise millions of dollars. While repeatedly assuring donors that
