Steve Bannon, along with three of his associates were indicted by investigators at the U.S. Southern District of New York on Thursday. Brian Kolfage, a triple amputee US Air Force veteran started a crowdsourcing campaign to raise money to pay for a border wall. Previous NextFormer White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been arrested after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors through their campaign “We Build the Wall,” CNBC reports. The campaign was intended to raise money to help President Donald Trump fulfill a campaign promise of building a border wall along the border. His effort came amid a stalemate over government funding on Capitol Hill, where Trump demanded that any spending package include billions of dollars to go toward his proposed border wall.

Source: The Standard August 20, 2020 14:03 UTC