(New York) The former adviser to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, is due to appear in New York on Thursday to be charged with fraud in a case of alleged embezzlement of funds for the construction of a wall between the United States. States and Mexico, report US media.
Mr. Bannon, 68, a figure of right-wing populism in the United States, was on his way to New York on Wednesday evening to go to the office of the Attorney for the District of Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, on Thursday at 9 a.m. and be criminally prosecuted there. , his lawyer Robert Costello told CNBC television.
The channel thus confirmed initial information revealed on Tuesday evening by the Washington Post, claiming on the basis of sources familiar with the matter that the former eminence grise of President Trump (2016-2021) was going to surrender to local judicial authorities in 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 say it is the same case which had earned Mr. Bannon a first indictment in 2020. for financial fraud by the federal justice of the United States.
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, as he was pardoned by Republican President Trump on January 19, 2021, a day before leaving the White House to leave it to Democrat Joe Biden.
In a press release sent to the media, Mr. 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 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 on January 6, 2021.
Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon is preparing to face New York state charges that he defrauded donors to the nonprofit group We Build the Wall. The move comes just months after Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena by the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol. NPR's Andrea Bernstein joins us now to discuss the new case.
Andrea, so what's this case about?
ANDREA BERNSTEIN, BYLINE: So this case is expected to be similar to a previous federal case that Bannon was indicted on but never tried on because Trump pardoned Bannon before that could happen. That case was involving this nonprofit, We Build the Wall, which was collecting private donations to build a piece of the border wall. And Bannon and others were accused of, basically, skimming money from the donors for personal use for things like travel and credit card debt and the like. In that case, there were three codefendants. Two pleaded guilty. One had a mistrial. A person familiar with the New York case confirms he'll turn himself in tomorrow, which will make him a member of a large and growing group of former top Trump associates in trouble with the law.
MARTINEZ: How did it happen that state prosecutors get the case?
BERNSTEIN: So in the last 24 hours of his presidency, former President Trump pardoned Bannon. Soon after that, the Manhattan DA and the New York attorney general began looking into whether there were victims or criminal activity in Manhattan. We know from past practice they don't bring a case unless they believe they have evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. That, of course, would be tested in this case with the jury.
MARTINEZ: And this has me wondering if there's a question of double jeopardy here because of the previous federal indictment that led to Trump's presidential pardon of Steve Bannon.
BERNSTEIN: So Bannon probably will argue that there is an issue of double jeopardy. In a statement that he released last night, he's already accused the DA of bringing, quote, "phony charges." Previously, the Manhattan DA - excuse me. Previously, the Manhattan DA was told he could not prosecute former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, who had his own case. But that was different because he had already been convicted at trial of fraud and pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States and money laundering. In this case, Bannon never went to trial, so it's untested.
MARTINEZ: Is there, though, a connection between this case and the contempt of Congress case?
BERNSTEIN: Well, there is in the sense that Bannon has very clearly acted as if the rule of law does not apply to him. And it's concerning because he was seeking a pardon for the fraud case at the same time that he was communicating with the White House privately and publicly, encouraging people to protest what he said was a falsely - was a fraudulent election. So it's all wrapped up together because he was very clearly trying to get a private benefit from Trump at the same time that he was involved in this very public activity, which he refused to testify about and was subsequently convicted of committing a federal crime in Washington, D.C., for refusing to comply with that committee.
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