After President Donald J. Trump pardoned him in a case connected to a crowd-funded border wall, the Manhattan district attorney’s office opened its own investigation.
Steve Bannon served as a top campaign official for Donald Trump, then a White House advisor and later received a presidential pardon for a federal fraud case.
People familiar with the situation, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sealed indictment, suggested the state prosecution will likely mirror aspects of the federal case in which Bannon was pardoned.
The Manhattan DA’s office had opened an investigation into Bannon in connection with his role in a charity that was supposed to use private funds to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Former White House chief strategist and MAGA warrior Steve Bannon has been criminally charged in New York in a sealed indictment and is expected to surrender to state prosecutors on Thursday…
New York State opened its own investigation into a crowdfunding campaign run by Bannon to build a wall on the southern border after he received a federal pardon from Trump.
Facing fundraising fraud charges related to those for which he got a federal pardon on former President Donald Trump’s last day in office, the former conservative campaign strategist is expected to surrender to Manhattan prosecutors on Thursday.
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