Donald Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon, was charged Thursday in New York with financial fraud in a case of alleged embezzlement and laundering of funds for the construction of a wall between the United States and Mexico, New York state tax authorities announced. .
“It’s a crime to make a profit by lying to donors, and in New York they are held accountable for it,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said at a news conference as he unveiled the charges, including “money laundering.” “. , against Bannon and an association “We Build the Wall” that had raised some 15 million dollars in the United States to finance the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico.
“False Trials”
This wall was a campaign promise of Republican Donald Trump who was elected president in November 2016.
His Eminence Gray at the time, Steve Bannon, spent Thursday morning at Alvin Bragg’s offices, to receive his indictment, which had been fanned by the American press since Tuesday night.
Under US criminal procedure, Bannon must appear before a New York judge in the afternoon to hear a grand jury indictment and plead “guilty” or “not guilty.”
According to US television, citing his lawyer Robert Costello, he should opt for “not guilty”, paving the way for a criminal trial.
Until Tuesday night, he had denounced in a press release “false lawsuits against him 60 days before the November 8 mid-term legislative elections” between the Republican opposition and the Democratic majority.
Source: BFM TV
