After Pardon for Bannon, 2 to Admit Bilking Donors to Border Wall

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Prosecutors say they took money from donors to Donald J. Trump’s signature project and spent it on jewelry, plastic surgery and a golf cart.

In Donald J. Trump’s final hours as president in January 2021, he pardoned his onetime chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who faced charges that he had conspired to swindle donors to a private group that promised to build a wall along the Mexican border.

But three men charged with Mr. Bannon were not pardoned, and two of them are expected to plead guilty on Thursday in Federal District Court in Manhattan, court filings show.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/nyregion/trump-bannon-border-wall.html

 

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The indictment accused Mr. Bannon of siphoning more than $1 million from the project through a nonprofit organization he controlled, and using the money, among other things, to pay Mr. Kolfage and to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in Mr. Bannon’s personal expenses.

The indictment said Mr. Kolfage took more than $350,000 in donated funds and used that money to pay for home renovations, a luxury S.U.V., boat payments, a golf cart, cosmetic surgery and jewelry.