NEW YORK — The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is weighing whether to bring a state court case against Stephen K. Bannon, who was indicted on federal fraud charges for his role in a fundraising scheme to build a border wall but received a last-minute pardon from President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.
Bannon, one of the architects of Trump’s 2016 election victory and briefly a White House adviser, was among 143 people who received pardons from Trump in his last 24 hours in office. Bannon left the White House early in Trump’s term after he fell out with the president, who wavered until the last minute on issuing his former strategist a pardon, The Washington Post reported.
Bannon and three others were charged by federal prosecutors in Manhattan with falsely claiming that they would not take compensation as part of their “We Build the Wall” fundraising campaign to underwrite part of the construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Continue reading.