USA. Steve Bannon, former adviser to Donald Trump, sentenced to three years in prison suspended for financial fraud

The former adviser to Donald Trump Steve Bannon confessed on Tuesday before the State Court in New York to an allegation of fraud related to his campaign to raise funds on the wall along the US border with Mexico. He was sentenced to three years in prison.

The 71-year-old Bannon was accused of laundering and conspiracy and cheating donors, who in 2019 transferred him over $ 15 million. for a private collection under the slogan “We are building a wall”. Investigators claimed that this money was used by Bannon for private purposes and donated to other people involved in the project.

The construction of the border wall was a key element of Trump's immigration policy during its first presidency.

Bannon was Trump's adviser during the presidential campaign in 2016, and in 2017 he took the function of the main strategist of the president. Then, however, it occurred between them from the conflict, and in 2018 Trump deprived him of his function. Despite this, the 71-year-old remained a hot supporter of the president.

The AP agency emphasizes that Trump cannot pardon Bannon because the allegations against him were brought at the state level.

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In October 2022, Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison and 6.5 thousand. hole. Finds for evasion of testimonies before the Congress of the Congress on Events of 6 January 2021.

Bannon was considered one of the key people involved in protests, which ended in a storm of the Capitol. The day before the riots, he announced during his podstan that on January 6 hell would “unincessible”, and suggested that there would be a “revolution”. On January 5, Bannon also met at the Willar Hotel in Washington with Republican Congressmen.