Stephen Bannon Charged With Fraud Over Border Wall Group
- Trump’s former White House chief strategist is arrested
- U.S. says Bannon took $1 million from We Build the Wall funds
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Stephen Bannon, one of the architects of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was arrested and charged with fraud over his involvement in an online group that raised more than $25 million to help fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Despite portraying the We Build the Wall fundraising group as a volunteer campaign, Bannon received more than $1 million from the group and used some of it to pay personal expenses, prosecutors said. He’s expected to appear in a New York courtroom on Thursday. Three others were also charged in the alleged scheme, including the group’s founder, a disabled Air Force veteran named Brian Kolfage.