Steve Bannon’s Pardon Complicates Case Against Co-Defendants
- Three others are also accused of defrauding border-wall donors
- Experts say they could try to cast Bannon as the chief culprit
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Donald Trump’s midnight pardon of Steve Bannon complicates the case against the three other men charged with using border-wall donations for personal expenses.
The former chief White House strategist was the highest-profile person accused by Manhattan federal prosecutors in August of defrauding people who gave $25 million to the nonprofit We Build the Wall Inc. Though donors thought they were helping to fund private portions of Trump’s promised wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, the government says around $1 million of the money was used for travel and personal luxuries, including a Range Rover for Bannon.