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Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon arrested on fraud charges in border wall fundraising scheme
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Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon arrested on fraud charges in border wall fundraising scheme

Former senior White House strategist Steve Bannon and three associates were arrested on charges of defrauding donors in a fundraising scheme for their "We Build the Wall" campaign.

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Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was arrested on charges of defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors through his “We Build the Wall” fundraising campaign.

Bannon and three others were indicted in a federal investigation in the Southern District of New York.

Prosecutors allege the four defrauded donors by raising “more than $25 million to build a wall along the southern border of the United States,” but some of that money was used for personal gain.

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Prosecutors claim that the defendants “collectively received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donor funds from ‘We Build the Wall,’ which they each used in a manner inconsistent with the organization’s public representations,” according to the indictment.