Steve Bannon has been charged by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office with two counts of money laundering, three counts of conspiracy, and one count of scheming to defraud.
by the offices of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Braggs and New York Attorney General Letitia James. In a statement regarding the charges, James suggested that the evidence will clearly demonstrate that Bannon is guilty.
“Mr. Bannon took advantage of his donors’ political views to secure millions of dollars which he then misappropriated,”Earlier this week, a number of media outlets reported that Bannon was planning to voluntarily turn himself in but plead “not guilty” to the charges. In response, Bannon issuedregarding his then-pending charges, suggesting he may resort to violence if he is found guilty.
“They are coming after all of us, not only President Trump and myself,” he said. “I am never going to stop fighting. In fact, I have not yet begun to fight. They will have to kill me first.”“I keep waiting for the first MAGA person to realize that Steve Bannon is being prosecuted for stealing THEIR money from THEM,”. “But the con man and deplorable carnival barker is now telling the rubes that this is a prosecution of them. The victims love their abuser and want more.
“Despite his bravado, I can assure you that Bannon was shaking in his boots when he surrendered this morning,”, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. “He is facing serious time in an upstate NY prison upon conviction. We can expect that 2 of his former fed co-defendants to cooperate against him. He will be convicted.”
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