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Prosecutors rebut ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon's attempt to dismiss fraud charges
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Steve Bannon Stiffing His Lawyers May Come Back to Bite Him: Former White House adviser Steve Bannon could face more legal issues associated with an alleged ...
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Steve Bannon Stiffing His Lawyers May Come Back to Bite Him
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What to know about the Texas border wall and who’s building it: Republican state lawmakers already have allocated nearly $1.5 billion to build a wall along ...
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What to know about the Texas border wall and who’s building it
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Third associate of Steve Bannon sentenced to 63 months in prison for border wall scheme
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Video Shows Steve Bannon Confronted Over 'We Build the Wall' Money: In September 2022, Bannon was charged over money laundering allegations in relation to a ...
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Video Shows Steve Bannon Confronted Over 'We Build the Wall' Money
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Steve Bannon's 'We Build the Wall' scheme trial set for May 2024: If the schedule holds, Bannon will be going to trial right after Trump is slated ...
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Quick Glance: Steve Bannon to Face Trial for 'We Build the Wall' Fraud in May 2024
  • Conservative strategist Steve Bannon will go on trial in May 2024 for allegedly defrauding donors who gave money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

  • Judge Juan Manuel Merchan set the trial date for May 28, 2024, after realizing that the originally announced date falls on Memorial Day next year when courts will be closed.

  • Bannon pleaded not guilty in September last year.

  • However, according to investigators, the money was used to enrich Bannon and others involved in the project.
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Lawsuit: Steve Bannon owes $480K for unpaid legal bills: Steve Bannon's latest legal trouble: a lawsuit alleging he stiffed his former lawyers out of more than ...
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Lawsuit: Steve Bannon owes $480K for unpaid legal bills
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Steve Bannon's 'We Build The Wall' is officially a zombie charity: "We Build The Wall's" director resigned Tuesday. But it has one final victim: its defense ...
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Steve Bannon's 'We Build The Wall' is officially a zombie charity
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Steve Bannon proclaims ‘I ain’t going to prison’ at NYC court appearance : The right-wing strategist shared his belief when he appeared in Manhattan Supreme ...
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Steve Bannon proclaims ‘I ain’t going to prison’ at NYC court appearance
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Bannon asks to change lawyers in wall building fraud case: Former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon on Thursday asked to change his representation in the fraud case ...
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Bannon asks to change lawyers in wall building fraud case
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Steve Bannon Dumping Lawyers In Border Wall Fraud Case: A judge questioned whether the move was simply a ploy to delay the former White House strategist's trial ...
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Steve Bannon Dumping Lawyers In Border Wall Fraud Case
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Incoming Kansas attorney general fined for 2020 Senate campaign finance violations
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Quick Glance: Kansas Attorney General punished for campaign finance violations
  • The Federal Election Commission imposed a $30,000 fine on Kris Kobach, the incoming Kansas Attorney General, and a former private border wall organization he was affiliated with for violating campaign finance laws during his unsuccessful 2020 Senate campaign.

  • Kobach admitted to illegally accepting an in-kind contribution from We Build the Wall, a group linked to Steve Bannon that ran a fundraising campaign for a private border wall but was embroiled in fraud allegations.

  • In 2019, Kobach's campaign rented We Build the Wall's email list at a significantly reduced rate.

  • Kobach narrowly won the election for Kansas attorney general, defeating Democrat Chris Mann 51% to 49% in a reliably red state.
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DOJ Tried to Hide Report Warning That Private Border Wall in Texas Could Collapse
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Kobach faces $30,000 FEC fine for accepting illegal donation in 2020 Senate campaign
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Kobach faces $30,000 FEC fine for accepting illegal donation in 2020 ...
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In Retrial, Man Who Helped Run Border Wall Charity Is Convicted: Timothy Shea was the only one of four defendants in the federal case to face a jury ...
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In Retrial, Man Who Helped Run Border Wall Charity Is Convicted
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Jury convicts Colorado man in second 'We Build the Wall' trial: A federal jury in Manhattan on Friday convicted a Colorado man who was charged along with former ...
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Jury convicts Colorado man in second 'We Build the Wall' trial
Quick Glance: "Vicious, biased": Trump attacks judge in New York fraud case
  • In New York courts, there are three active cases involving Trump or the Trump Organization.

  • Trump stated on Truth Social that the only person worse than James was Engoron.

  • "His name is Arthur Engoron & he is a vicious, biased, and mean 'rubber stamp' for the Communist takeover of the great & prosperous American company that I have built over a long period of years,"rubber stamp" for the Communist takeover of the great & prosperous American company that I have built over a long period of years," Trump tweeted.

  • Engoron will consider James' request for an independent monitor to oversee the Trump Organization's actions at a hearing on Thursday, after she claimed the corporation was taking steps to avoid potential penalties, such as forming a new entity called Trump Organization II.
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Bannon trial in ‘We Build the Wall’ scheme expected November 2023 : Former President Trump’s longtime ally Stephen Bannon will likely stand trial in November of ...
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Bannon trial in ‘We Build the Wall’ scheme expected November 2023 
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Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to defrauding border wall donors
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Quick Glance: The Indictment of Bannon Reveals Damning Texts on the "Build the Wall" Scheme
  • "[No] deals I don't approve; and I pay [Brian Kolfage] so what's to worry," Bannon texted an associate on Jan. 15, 2019, according to the indictment.

  • Local prosecutors are attempting to charge him with offenses that were previously pardoned by former President Donald Trump.

  • , according to a person close to the investigation.

  • Kolfage, who is accused of paying himself more than $350,000 in the indictment, pled guilty in April.

  • But Bannon's case was never heard.
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Bannon's Build The Wall Paid CEO $20K a Month Despite Saying 'Not a Penny': Bannon was charged with two felony counts of money laundering, two felony counts of ...
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Bannon's Build The Wall Paid CEO $20K a Month Despite Saying 'Not a Penny'
Quick Glance: Bannon's Build The Wall Paid CEO $20K Per Month Despite Saying 'Not a Penny'
  • Bannon was charged with two charges of criminal money laundering, two counts of felony conspiracy, and one count of felony scheme to defraud.

  • The "Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1" is WeBuildtheWall, Inc.

  • "On or about March 7, 2019, Bannon caused Unindicted Co-Conspirator Entity 1 to transfer $20,000 to Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1," according to the indictment.

  • Unindicted Co-Conspirator 2 told Bannon in text messages on or about January 11, 2019, that this commitment "removes all self interest taint on this" and "gives [Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1] saint hood," it added.
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Colorado man found guilty in "We Build the Wall" fraud trial: A Colorado businessman was convicted Friday of charges that he and others siphoned hundreds of ...
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Colorado man found guilty in
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Colorado businessman set for retrial over border wall fund: A Colorado businessman returns to New York Monday for a retrial on charges that he cheated thousands ...
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Colorado businessman set for retrial over border wall fund
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Kansas AG candidate Kris Kobach resigns from We Build the Wall nonprofit accused of money laundering
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Kansas AG candidate Kris Kobach resigns from We Build the Wall nonprofit ...
Quick Glance: Steve Bannon accuses a "Soros-backed" prosecutor of money laundering.
  • WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon has blamed his indictment in New York on money laundering and conspiracy charges on a "Soros-backed" district attorney.

  • Holocaust parallels and Soros theories dominate Republican discourse in the United States.

  • Bannon's "Soros-backed" remark came after Republican Sen.

  • Two months earlier, the Republican Party of Minnesota apologized for showing a video depicting Soros as a puppet master manipulating and managing two Jewish Democrats.
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Trump supporters and ‘We Build the Wall’ scam victims testify at NYC fraud trial: “I was insulted that somebody had taken what should be a position of honor and ...
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Trump supporters and ‘We Build the Wall’ scam victims testify at NYC fraud ...
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Steve Bannon to Be Charged Again Over Alleged Border Wall Scam: The former Trump adviser is expected to turn himself in to New York state authorities on Thursday
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Steve Bannon to Be Charged Again Over Alleged Border Wall Scam
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Ex-Trump Aide Steve Bannon En Route to Surrender in New York State, Turn Over Passport
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Steve Bannon was indicted over private border wall campaign. Here are the Arizona ties
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Steve Bannon Says Authorities ‘Will Have to Kill Me,’ But He’s About to Turn Himself In
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Q&A: Anaïs Mitchell couldn't imagine success of 'Hadestown' then or now: When Anaïs Mitchell believes in a project, she sticks with it. At least that was the ...
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Q&A: Anaïs Mitchell couldn't imagine success of 'Hadestown' then or now
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'Hadestown,' coming to the Fox, features 3 St. Louisans in sizzling spin on myth: Inspired by Greek mythology and boasting a folk-inflected score with a hint of ...
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'Hadestown,' coming to the Fox, features 3 St. Louisans in sizzling spin ...
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Settlement Over Private Border Wall Won’t Stop Flooding or Erosion of Rio Grande Shoreline, Experts Say
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NY prosecutors moving closer to charging Steve Bannon in border wall effort Trump pardoned him for
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NY prosecutors moving closer to charging Steve Bannon in border wall ...
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'We Build the Wall' fraud case ends in mistrial; jury deadlocked: Colorado businessman Timothy Shea was accused of ripping off thousands of donors who ...
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'We Build the Wall' fraud case ends in mistrial; jury deadlocked
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Liberal-Loathing Forces Mistrial in Bannon Co-Conspirator Timothy Shea’s ‘Build the Wall’ Case
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'We Build The Wall' trial ends in mistrial; jury deadlocked: Prosecutors said they were ready to retry the case, though it was unlikely a retrial would occur ...
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'We Build The Wall' trial ends in mistrial; jury deadlocked
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Steve Bannon buddy on trial for ‘We Build the Wall’ charity scam: Timothy Shea was in charge of a shell company that moved $20,000 of donations a month from the ...
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Steve Bannon buddy on trial for ‘We Build the Wall’ charity scam
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Champion Of Trump's Wall Pleads Guilty To Fraud, Faces Years In Prison: Brian Kolfage has admitted to pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars donors gave him ...
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Champion Of Trump's Wall Pleads Guilty To Fraud, Faces Years In Prison
Quick Glance: Following Bannon's pardon, two states admit bilking donors to the border wall.
  • In his closing hours as president, Donald J. Trump pardoned his former chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who faced accusations of conspiring to defraud supporters to a private group that pledged to build a wall along the Mexican border.

  • However, the three men charged with Mr. Bannon were not pardoned, and two of them pleaded guilty in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Thursday.

  • Prosecutors stated in a recent court filing that he had made a tentative agreement to plead guilty but changed his mind.

  • The allegations against Mr. Kolfage involve a maximum term of 46 years in jail, according to the judge.
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We Build the Wall woes remain after founder Brian Kolfage’s guilty plea: Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage faces more than five years in prison after pleading ...
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We Build the Wall woes remain after founder Brian Kolfage’s guilty plea
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Two of Bannon's co-defendants plead guilty to 'We Build the Wall' fraud
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Two of Bannon's co-defendants plead guilty to 'We Build the ...
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Private border wall settlement in Texas won’t stop environmental damage: Federal authorities have reached a deal that gives builders of the privately funded ...
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Private border wall settlement in Texas won’t stop environmental damage
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Texas butterfly center targeted by far-right conspiracy theorists to reopen: Misinformation about the center being a site for illegal immigration circulated ...
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The Veteran Who Launched A Multimillion-Dollar Effort To Build A Border Wall Has Agreed To Plead Guilty To Fraud Charges
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