After Pardon for Bannon, 2 to Admit Bilking Donors to Border Wall
Source: NY Ledger
“The defendants defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, under the false pretense that all of that money would be spent on construction,” said Audrey Strauss, then the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, when the charges were announced in August 2020.
The other defendant expected to plead guilty on Thursday is Andrew Badolato, 57, a venture capitalist from Sarasota, Fla., the court filings show. The fourth, Timothy Shea, 51, of Castle Rock, Colo., had reached a tentative deal to plead guilty, but changed his mind, prosecutors said in a recent court filing. Mr. Shea is scheduled for trial on May 16.
The We Build the Wall case has been widely watched, initially because of Mr. Bannon’s connection and then, after his pardon, because the three less-well-connected defendants were left facing prosecution.
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