Steve Bannon allegedly defrauded supporters of Donald Trump in a campaign to raise funds to build part of the wall the Republican wanted to build on the US-Mexico border.
Steve Bannon, a former top adviser to former President Donald Trump, is expected to face new criminal charges and plans to surrender to state prosecutors on Thursday, according to a report in the Washington Post.
In part, the accusations against Mr. Bannon reflect dimensions of a federal case, for which the real estate mogul’s former strategist had received a presidential pardon in 2021, the report clarifies.
Steve Bannon allegedly defrauded supporters of the former president as part of a fundraising campaign to build part of the wall the Republican wanted to build on the US-Mexico border.
Bannon has pleaded not guilty.
Details of the new state court prosecution have not been confirmed, the newspaper noted in the report. A spokesman for Mr. Bannon downplayed the case, calling it political persecution, a “weaponization of the criminal justice system” by Democrats.
The case will be handled by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, according to the Post. A spokeswoman for his office declined to comment on the case.
Local authorities in New York “had done the exact same thing in August 2020 to get me out of the way ahead of the election. It was futile then and it will certainly be futile now,” Mr. Bannon assured in a press release released by his spokesman.
In July, Steve Bannon was found guilty of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena by the House Special Investigations Committee into the attack on the federal Capitol on January 6, 2021 to testify before it. The commission called the verdict “a victory for the rule of law.”
Mr. Bannon played a key role in Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, was a White House strategist in 2017, but then fell out with the tycoon. Since then, their relationship has been restored. He was also the mastermind behind far-right media outlets, notably the website Breitbart.
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