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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4588266" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p><a href="https://gizmodo.com/steve-bannon-arrested-in-25-million-border-wall-gofund-1844786925" target="_blank">Steve Bannon Finally Gets His Walls</a></p><p></p><p>"U.S. federal prosecutors announced Thursday morning that four men have been indicted for their roles in a crowdfunding scheme to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former right-hand man, was among those indicted this morning and is already in federal custody, according to <a href="https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1296441861570265095" target="_blank">MSNBC</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Brian Kolfage started a GoFundMe page in December of 2018 called “We Build the Wall,” which promised to help President Donald Trump fulfill his promise to construct a physical barrier between the U.S. and Mexico. Kolfage allegedly kept $350,000 in funds for personal use while Bannon allegedly rerouted $1 million to a nonprofit and spent hundreds of thousands on personal expenses.</p><p></p><p>Bannon was arrested while on a boat off the coast of Connecticut, unnamed law enforcement sources told <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/former-trump-campaign-manager-steve-bannon-indicted-for-fraud-in-ny/2576990/" target="_blank">ABC4 New York</a>. Agents from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, which investigates crimes like wire and mail fraud, performed the arrest, according to <a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan/status/1296445655699918857" target="_blank">several reports</a>.</p><p></p><p>“As alleged, the defendants defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, under the false pretense that all of that money would be spent on construction,” the Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a statement posted online by the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/leaders-we-build-wall-online-fundraising-campaign-charged-defrauding-hundreds-thousands" target="_blank">U.S. Department of Justice</a>.</p><p></p><p>“While repeatedly assuring donors that Brian Kolfage, the founder and public face of We Build the Wall, would not be paid a cent, the defendants secretly schemed to pass hundreds of thousands of dollars to Kolfage, which he used to fund his lavish lifestyle,” Strauss continued. “We thank the USPIS for their partnership in investigating this case, and we remain dedicated to rooting out and prosecuting fraud wherever we find it.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]306610[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4588266, member: 48469"] [URL="https://gizmodo.com/steve-bannon-arrested-in-25-million-border-wall-gofund-1844786925"]Steve Bannon Finally Gets His Walls[/URL] "U.S. federal prosecutors announced Thursday morning that four men have been indicted for their roles in a crowdfunding scheme to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former right-hand man, was among those indicted this morning and is already in federal custody, according to [URL='https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1296441861570265095']MSNBC[/URL]. Brian Kolfage started a GoFundMe page in December of 2018 called “We Build the Wall,” which promised to help President Donald Trump fulfill his promise to construct a physical barrier between the U.S. and Mexico. Kolfage allegedly kept $350,000 in funds for personal use while Bannon allegedly rerouted $1 million to a nonprofit and spent hundreds of thousands on personal expenses. Bannon was arrested while on a boat off the coast of Connecticut, unnamed law enforcement sources told [URL='https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/former-trump-campaign-manager-steve-bannon-indicted-for-fraud-in-ny/2576990/']ABC4 New York[/URL]. Agents from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, which investigates crimes like wire and mail fraud, performed the arrest, according to [URL='https://twitter.com/margbrennan/status/1296445655699918857']several reports[/URL]. “As alleged, the defendants defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, under the false pretense that all of that money would be spent on construction,” the Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a statement posted online by the [URL='https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/leaders-we-build-wall-online-fundraising-campaign-charged-defrauding-hundreds-thousands']U.S. Department of Justice[/URL]. “While repeatedly assuring donors that Brian Kolfage, the founder and public face of We Build the Wall, would not be paid a cent, the defendants secretly schemed to pass hundreds of thousands of dollars to Kolfage, which he used to fund his lavish lifestyle,” Strauss continued. “We thank the USPIS for their partnership in investigating this case, and we remain dedicated to rooting out and prosecuting fraud wherever we find it. [ATTACH type="full"]306610[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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