Bannon himself got a free pass courtesy of President Trump. (via MaddowBlog)
On the surface, what those guys appeared to be doing was an ambitious project: We Build the Wall said it was raising private funds to build barriers along the U.S./Mexico border. But below the surface, what those guys were actually doing really was “amazing,” but not in a good way.yesterday that two of the men who oversaw the operation were sentenced to prison “for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors.
Chances are, most Americans aren’t familiar with Kolfage and Badolato, but it’s a safe bet you’ve heard of their former partner: Steve Bannon. As a high-profile political player, Bannon’s role as a board member of the outfit lent it credibility. It wasn’t long before We Build the Wall raised $25 million for the private venture., for example, that structural issues raised concerns that the conservative outfit delivered a defective product.
For his part, Bannon told the public that We Build The Wall would function as “a volunteer organization.” Federal prosecutors disagreed: The Justice Department charged Bannon and his associates in August 2020,that they “defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their 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.
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