In Steve Bannon Case, Prosecutors Have ‘Voluminous’ Emails – By Benjamin Weiser and William K. Rashbaum (The New York Times) / Sept 1 2020
Federal prosecutors have seized “voluminous” emails and other communications in their case against Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Donald Trump who is charged with defrauding donors to a private group that promised to build a wall on the Mexican border, the government said Monday.
Bannon and three other men have been accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in the scheme. The campaign, known as “We Build the Wall,” raised more than $25 million from private donors by promising to build portions of the wall, the president’s signature political initiative.
Prosecutors have said that while thousands of investors were led to believe all their donations would go toward the project, Bannon diverted more than $1 million and used some of it for personal expenses. He pleaded not guilty Aug. 20 and declared as he left federal court in Manhattan, “This entire fiasco is to stop people who want to build the wall.”
The government outlined the materials it had seized during a virtual court hearing in Manhattan on Monday that also highlighted the charged, election-year atmosphere surrounding the case.
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