Steve Bannon, former Trump Advisor, pleads guilty of fraud with border walls

New -York – President Trump’s trusted person Steve Bannon pleaded guilty on Tuesday into the deception of New York citizens, who donated we to build a wall, online collection of funds for Trump’s signature project during his first term, in exchange for punishment without prison time.

“The parties have drafted a guilt agreement, Mr. Bannon pleads guilty 5 of the prosecution, which is a scheme of deception in the indictment. He will receive a conditional dismissal,” said prosecutor Jeffrey Levinson.

The statement of the perpetrator of charging is the second criminal condemnation of Bannon after he was serving prison time for contempt for Congress.

Bannon appeared in court in the brown jacket of a shed, its cleaned gray hair, which spills over an inverted collar. He sat on the table of defense table before Judge April Newbauer confirmed that he now wanted to admit his guilt.

“Is that what you want to do?” Newbauer asked. “Yes, your honor,” Bannon replied before admitting that he acted to deceive several donors.

“Do you now recognize your guilt on score 5, the deception scheme?” the courts asked. “Yes,” Bannon replied. The judge has imposed a sentence of three years of conditional dismissal, during which the bannon cannot perform the functions of the director of the charitable organization or the collection of funds for a non -profit organization. He is also forbidden to use the data collected from we build wall donors.

We build a wall, promised 100% of donations, finance the wall along the southern border of the United States, but Bannon redirected money to another place.

Bannon was accused of September 2022. Earlier, he was not guilty and was planned for the next month.

Initially, Bannon was charged with a federal court in three codes. Trump has pardoned Bannon, but not the codes whose drafts were held accountable, which made fraudulent donors whole.

Bannon deceived the donors to a non -profit organization, mistakenly promising that none of the money they sacrificed will be used to pay the salary we build the President of the wall of Brian Kolofaj, while secretly transporting hundreds of thousands of dollars, postponing it through third place. Prosecutors.

The campaign represented that we were building a wall, using money for the private construction of the border wall, and prosecutors stated that “the central part of public exchange of messages to support this effort was that Kolfage did not take a penny of compensation.” Financial records show that Kolfage was paid in accordance with a secret salary agreement, a previous payment of $ 100,000 and monthly payments – about $ 20,000.