Bannon associates to be sentenced for fraud over Trump's border wall

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NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) - Two former associates of Steve Bannon are set to be sentenced on Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan, after they admitted to conspiring to defraud donors to a campaign to build former President Donald Trump's wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.

 

UPDATE 1-Bannon associate sentenced to more than 4 years for fraud over Trump border wall​

Story by By Luc Cohen • 28m ago

(Recasts with sentencing)
By Luc Cohen

NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) - Decorated U.S. Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage, an ex-associate of Donald Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon, was sentenced on Wednesday to more than four years in prison after admitting to conspiring to defraud donors to a campaign to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border promised by the former president.

Kolfage, 41, pleaded guilty last year to misappropriating funds meant for the "We Build the Wall" campaign. U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres announced the 51-month sentence at a hearing in federal court in Manhattan.

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Two Sentenced To Prison For ‘We Build The Wall’ Online Fundraising Fraud Scheme​

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BRIAN KOLFAGE and ANDREW BADOLATO were sentenced today by United States District Judge Analisa Torres. KOLFAGE was sentenced to 51 months in prison, and BADOLATO was sentenced to 36 months in prison, for their respective roles in carrying out a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with an online crowdfunding campaign known as “We Build The Wall” by soliciting donations using false statements and then stealing the resulting donations.

 
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