Steve Bannon arrested and charged with fraud over border wall campaign

Bannon and three others allegedly defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with ‘We Build the Wall’Former Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday for his alleged role in skimming donations from “We Build the Wall”, an online fundraising campaign for the US president’s controversial border wall with Mexico, officials in New York said.Using a non-profit organization that he controlled, Bannon “received over $1m from We Build the Wall, at least some of which Bannon used to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in [his] personal expenses”, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/20/steve-bannon-arrested-charged-fraud-we-build-the-wall #steve_bannon #new_york #law_(us) #us_news