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Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon to be charged with fraud in New York

2022-09-08T10:30:53.512Z


He had previously been arrested in August 2020 for defrauding and embezzling part of the $25 million in donor funds to build a wall between the United States and Mexico.


Donald Trump's former adviser, Steve Bannon, is due to appear in New York justice on Thursday, September 8 to be charged with fraud in a case of alleged embezzlement of funds for the construction of a wall between the United States. and Mexico, US media report.

Steve Bannon, 68, a figure of right-wing populism in the United States, was on his way to New York on Wednesday evening to arrive at 09:00 (1300 GMT) on Thursday at the office of the Attorney for the District of Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, and be there criminally prosecuted, his lawyer Robert Costello told CNBC television.

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The chain thus confirmed a first information revealed Tuesday evening by the

Washington Post

affirming on the faith of sources close to the file that the former éminence grise of President Donald Trump (2016-2021) was going to surrender to the local judicial authorities of the State. of New York to be charged with financial fraud.

The Manhattan prosecutor's office did not respond to AFP's requests.

No details were given to the American press as to the content of the lawsuits, but the

Washington Post

, CNBC and the CNN channel claim that it is the same case which in 2020 had earned Steve Bannon a first indictment for financial fraud by United States federal justice.

The former White House adviser was even arrested in August 2020, accused with three other protagonists of having defrauded and embezzled part of the 25 million dollars in donor funds to build a wall between the United States and Mexico.

A campaign promise from Donald Trump elected in 2016. But Steve Bannon was never tried in court because he was pardoned by Republican President Donald Trump on January 19, 2021, a day before leaving the White House for the leave it to Democrat Joe Biden.

“Bogus lawsuits”

In a press release sent to the media, Steve Bannon denounced “

phony lawsuits against (him) 60 days before the elections

” mid-term legislative elections on November 8.

He castigated “

an armed partisan politicization of criminal justice

”.

The criminal indictment will come six weeks after Steve Bannon was found guilty in federal court in Washington of obstructing the investigative powers of Congress.

He had refused to cooperate with the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Even after being dismissed from the White House in August 2017, Steve Bannon had remained close to Donald Trump and had exchanged with him the day before the attack of January 6, 2021.

Source: lefigaro

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