Steve Bannon pleads guilty in New York 'We Build the Wall' case [View all]
Source: NBC News
Feb. 11, 2025, 10:45 AM EST
Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony fraud for helping to defraud donors who were giving money to build a wall at the southern U.S. border. In exchange for the guilty plea in New York criminal court, Bannon, 71, agreed to a conditional discharge and waived his right to appeal.
Bannon was sentenced to three years conditional discharge. He will not be allowed to serve as an officer or director of a charity or any charitable organization in New York state, or any fundraising or not-for-profit organization in New York state. He will not be allowed to receive or hold assets for any charitable organizations. He also cannot be arrested during that time period. If he violates the terms of the deal, he could face between 1 1/3 to 4 years behind bars.
Judge April Newbauer asked Bannon if he understood the terms of what he agreed to. “Yes, your honor,” Bannon replied. In a statement, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said, “This resolution achieves our primary goal: to protect New York’s charities and New Yorkers’ charitable giving from fraud." Bannon was not repentant after court, and called Bragg and state Attorney General Letitia James an "existential threat" to the Trump administration, apparently referring to the criminal and civil cases the two had brought against the president. "I’m calling on right now the Attorney General Pam Bondi to begin an immediate criminal investigation into Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, all of it for what they did to President Trump," Bannon said.
Bannon was first hit with charges related to the scheme in a different case by federal prosecutors in Aug. 2020. He pleaded not guilty and was pardoned by Trump in the final hours of his first term in office. Prosecutors from Bragg's office charged Bannon in the current case in Aug. 2022, when he was hit with six counts of money laundering, conspiracy and a scheme to defraud. Bannon pleaded not guilty at the time and called the case “partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system.”
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Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty Tuesday on a fraud charge in a case alleging he helped defraud donors who were giving money to build a wall at the southern U.S. border.
In exchange for the guilty plea, he agreed to a conditional discharge and waived his right to appeal.
Bannon was sentenced to three years conditional discharge. He will not be allowed to serve as an officer or director of a charity or any charitable organization in New York State or any fundraising or not for profit organizations in New York State. He will not be allowed to receive or hold assets for any charitable organizations.
He was originally charged in an indictment with six counts of money laundering, conspiracy, and a scheme to defraud.
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