Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato previously pleaded guilty to several federal crimes related to siphoning funds from the online fundraising scheme.
The two men, Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato, previously pleaded guilty to several federal crimes related to siphoning funds from the online fundraising scheme known as"We Build The Wall," which raised more than $25 million from tens of thousands of private donors.
Badolato, who pleaded guilty to committing wire fraud, received a 3-year prison sentence. Prosecutors said he also took hundreds of thousands of dollars in"We Build The Wall" donations for personal use. During the sentencing, Judge Analisa Torres said Kolfage and Badolato's scheme"was no ordinary financial fraud," noting that it could have a"chilling effect" on political fundraising efforts, the Justice Department said in aAccording to prosecutors, Kolfage, an Air Force veteran who lost limbs during the war in Iraq, worked with Badolato, Bannon and others to divert hundreds of thousands of dollars in private donations to bank accounts and entities they oversaw, despite...
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