Donnie-boy's buddy Steve Bannon busted in "We Build the Wall" scam

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Steve Bannon & 3 others ARRESTED, charged with border wall fundraiser fraud
https://www.rt.com/usa/498555-steve-bannon-indicted-wall/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Former Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon, triple-amputee Air Force vet Brian Kolfage and two others have been arrested and charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors with their 'We Build the Wall' online fundraiser.

Bannon, Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea are accused of scamming over $25 million under the guise of raising funds to build a wall on the US' southern border with Mexico in an indictment unsealed Thursday in Manhattan federal court.

While donors to the crowdfunding campaign were told Kolfage, the public face of We Build the Wall, "would not be paid a cent," the quartet allegedly funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to themselves, concealing the transactions with phony invoices and accounts.

We Build the Wall "capitaliz[ed] on [donors'] 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," acting US Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a statement on Thursday.