The former adviser to former US President Donald Trump, Stephen Bannon, surrendered this Thursday to the District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, New York, and is likely to be subject to coercive measures.
For now, the charges against Bannon are unknown, but local media reports that the lawsuit may be related to his work on the “We Build The Wall” campaign, a fundraising operation to help fulfill Trump’s promise to build a wall along the US-Mexico border.
Steve Bannon is confident he will win the lawsuit after being found guilty of disobedience to the US Congress.
Before entering the Manhattan district attorney’s facility, where he turned himself in, Bannon described the situation to journalists as “an irony”, saying that he is being persecuted for trying to stop illegal immigration, that it is criminal.
In February of last year, the New York Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation against Trump’s controversial former adviser for alleged fraud against donors of funds to build the wall on the border with Mexico, after being pardoned by the former president, hours before leaving the White House. .
Trump’s “precautionary” pardon applies to potential federal crimesbut not to state crimes, so Bannon could be charged in this case.
Last July, Bannon was found guilty of contempt of Congress, for which he could be sentenced to up to a year in prison and a fine of up to $200,000 (the same amount in euros).
Steve Bannon guilty of disobedience to the US Congress.
Source: Observadora
