Steve Bannon pleads guilty to fraud charge in border wall case Trump ally pleaded guilty to charge related to duping donors who gave money to effort to build wall on US border.
Steve Bannon pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a fraud charge related to duping donors who gave money to a private effort to build a wall along the US southern border – a case the conservative strategist has decried as a “political persecution”.
Bannon went to prison in an unrelated case last year, serving four months at a federal lockup in Connecticut for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021.
Bannon spoke to reporters afterward and called on the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to begin an immediate criminal investigation into the New York attorney general, Leticia James, and the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg.
Bragg, a Democrat, took up the case after Trump cut Bannon’s federal prosecution short with a pardon in the final hours of his first term in the White House.
