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Bannon's GoFundMe Border Wall Buddies Plead Guilty While He Lives Free With Trump Pardon
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bannons-gofundme-border-wall-buddies-plead-guilty-while-he-lives-free-with-trump-pardon/ar-AAWtxEs?li=BBnb7KzSteve Bannon is a free man today thanks to Donald Trump’s pardon of the far-right power player in the last minutes of his presidency. Others involved in the same scheme as Bannon weren’t so lucky: Two of them pleaded guilty Wednesday to defrauding donors to the $25 million GoFundMe border wall project known as “We Build The Wall.”
Brian Kolfage, who led the project, and another man charged in the fraud, Andrew Badolato, pleaded guilty to their roles in “defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors” in the wall-building scheme, the Justice Department said in a press release.
In short: Though Kolfage repeatedly promised donors that their money was going to the construction of segments of privately built border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, he, Bannon and others secretly siphoned off more than $1 million for themselves.
Brian Kolfage, who led the project, and another man charged in the fraud, Andrew Badolato, pleaded guilty to their roles in “defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors” in the wall-building scheme, the Justice Department said in a press release.
In short: Though Kolfage repeatedly promised donors that their money was going to the construction of segments of privately built border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, he, Bannon and others secretly siphoned off more than $1 million for themselves.
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It truly is an Orwellian time when criminals like Bannon are hailed as "patriots." It doesn't even occur to the GQPers that they should be angry about being swindled.