Donald Trump former campaign manager,Steve Bannon, arrested and charged with fraud over border wall campaign

Donald Trump former campaign manager,Steve Bannon, arrested and charged with fraud over border wall campaign.

President Trump former campaign manager, Steve Bannon has been arrested and charged with fraud in New York City over his alleged position and role he took in skimming large donations from an online fund raising campaign which is projected to gather funds to construct Donald Trump's controversial border wall.

The campaign is called “We Build The Wall”, the authorities in the US said that the donated funds is over twenty five million dollars($25 million).

Following Bannon's arrest, three other men who were allegedly part of the heist were also arrested alongside him.

Their names are Brian Kolfage,Andrew Badolato,Timothy Shea.The charges were contained in an indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court.It was reported that Bannon received over a million dollars from the Non-profit organization which was being controlled by him, it was also reported that he had used the funds in which he collected from the Non-profit organization to handle his own personal expenses and bills.

A federal prosecutor in Manhattan said that he received “over $1 million from we build the wall,at least some of which Bannon used to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in his personal expenses”.

Bannon was the chief executive officer of Donald Trump's election campaign in it final months in 2016 and then became the president's chief strategist during the early months of Trump's administration. 

Federal prosecutors alleged that Bannon and three others orchestrated the scheme to defraud large numbers of citizens who donated to the online crowd funding campaign to build a wall along the southern border of the United States. 

In a statement by the Acting US attorney, Audrey Strauss, Strauss said the fund capitalized on donors interests in building border wall was funneled into the secret interest of Bannon and his associates using the money for their lavish lifestyles.

Philip Bartlett,who is the inspector in charge of the case said , 

“As alleged, not only did they lie to donors,they schemed to hide their misappropriation of funds by creating sham invoices and accounts to launder donations and cover up their crimes, showing no regard for the law of the truth”.