Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to NY state charges of money laundering, conspiracy and fraud related to border wall effort – By Kara Scannell, Hannah Rabinowitz and Shawna Mizelle (CNN) / Sept 8, 2022
(CNN) Former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon pleaded not guilty Thursday in a New York court to state charges of money laundering, conspiracy and fraud related to an alleged online scheme to raise money for the construction of a wall along the southern US border, according to his attorney.
The state charges are based on the same conduct Bannon was charged with by federal prosecutors in 2020 that alleged he and three others had defrauded donors in the border wall effort, which raised more than $15 million. He was later pardoned by Trump.
Presidential pardons do not apply to state investigations, however.
Handcuffed and flanked by officers as they walked past reporters into court, Bannon said, “This is what happens in the last days of a dying regime. They will never shut me up, they’ll have to kill me first. I have not yet begun to fight.”
