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GoFundMe launched to pay for Trump's border wall, $1M in two days
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<blockquote data-quote="essentialsaltes" data-source="post: 76639255" data-attributes="member: 294566"><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-associates-build-the-wall-fraud-case-plea-deals-2022-3" target="_blank">Two co-defendants in the "Build the Wall" fraud case involving ex-Trump strategist Steve Bannon have agreed to plea deals ahead of their scheduled trial, according to court documents. </a></p><p></p><p>Brian Kolfage and Timothy Shea have "reached agreements in principle with the Government to enter pleas of guilty to certain charges in this case," the court documents filed on Friday state. </p><p></p><p>Kolfage, Shea, and Andrew Badolato face federal money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy charges for their alleged involvement in a scheme to steer money away from a nonprofit to fund Trump's border wall and toward them and Bannon, according to the August 2020 indictment out of New York federal court.</p><p></p><p>While the group did help fund small sections of the border wall, some of which are <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/eroding-private-border-wall-to-get-an-engineering-inspection-just-months-after-completion" target="_blank">facing scrutiny</a> for not complying with federal regulations and potentially being structurally unsound, they also spent more than $350,000 on things like travel, credit card debt, and hotels, according to the indictment.</p><p></p><p>When they later learned that there was an investigation into their alleged fraud, the men took additional steps to conceal their crimes, according to the indictment. They began using encrypted messaging, and removed all language from their website that said they wouldn't be taking a salary.</p><p></p><p>Badolato is still going to trial. Bannon was pardoned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="essentialsaltes, post: 76639255, member: 294566"] [URL='https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-associates-build-the-wall-fraud-case-plea-deals-2022-3']Two co-defendants in the "Build the Wall" fraud case involving ex-Trump strategist Steve Bannon have agreed to plea deals ahead of their scheduled trial, according to court documents. [/URL] Brian Kolfage and Timothy Shea have "reached agreements in principle with the Government to enter pleas of guilty to certain charges in this case," the court documents filed on Friday state. Kolfage, Shea, and Andrew Badolato face federal money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy charges for their alleged involvement in a scheme to steer money away from a nonprofit to fund Trump's border wall and toward them and Bannon, according to the August 2020 indictment out of New York federal court. While the group did help fund small sections of the border wall, some of which are [URL='https://www.propublica.org/article/eroding-private-border-wall-to-get-an-engineering-inspection-just-months-after-completion']facing scrutiny[/URL] for not complying with federal regulations and potentially being structurally unsound, they also spent more than $350,000 on things like travel, credit card debt, and hotels, according to the indictment. When they later learned that there was an investigation into their alleged fraud, the men took additional steps to conceal their crimes, according to the indictment. They began using encrypted messaging, and removed all language from their website that said they wouldn't be taking a salary. Badolato is still going to trial. Bannon was pardoned. [/QUOTE]
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