Bannon associate Brian Kolfage sentenced to more than four years ...

[IceWizard]

Bannon associate Brian Kolfage
sentenced to more than four years for
Trump border wall fraud


Prosecutors say US Air Force veteran misused $350,000
of donations meant for wall on southern border



Steve Bannon associate Brian Kolfage has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for
his role in defrauding donors to help privately build Donald Trump’s southern border wall.

Kolfage, a US Air Force veteran who lost his legs and right hand in a rocket attack in Iraq, pleaded
guilty last year to misappropriating more than $350,000 from the “We Build the Wall” campaign.

The 41-year-old was sentenced to 51 months in prison at a hearing in federal court in Manhattan
on Wednesday.





Brian Kolfage taking in the Veterans Day parade in New York in 2014
(REUTERS)




Prosecutors said that he spent the money on cosmetic surgery, boat payments and jewelry.
In addition, he also pleaded guilty to tax charges.

Andrew Badolato, 58, another former Bannon associate, also pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to three years in prison at the hearing, reported Reuters.

“While they were publicly promising that 100 per cent of donated funds would go towards construction
of a southern border wall, and that Kolfage would take no money, the defendants privately arranged
to steal donor money to compensate Kolfage,” prosecutors wrote before his sentencing.

Bannon, Mr Trump’s former White House strategist, was also charged in the scheme but later received
a presidential pardon in the waning hours of his single term in office.









However, the 69-year-old was indicted by New York state prosecutors in Manhattan last September
on money laundering and conspiracy charges over wall fraud, to which he has pleaded not guilty.

Presidential pardons only cover federal crimes and not ones prosecuted by the states.

Federal prosecutors had asked for Kolfage to serve 51 months behind bars, while his lawyers had asked
for three years of home detention because of his medical needs.

“The fraud perpetrated by Mr Kolfage and Mr Badolato went well beyond ripping off individual donors,”
US District Judge Analisa Torres said as she sentenced the men. “They hurt us all by eroding the public’s
faith in the political process.”

[Charon]

What a sad, horrible life. To lose one's legs and one's hand is horrific. It usually takes a very strong and Godly man to handle same.

So what, is this guy so bitter he felt he wanted and deserved the monies raised?

No one is accountable for their actions anymore.