Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to money laundering, fraud charges

Steve Bannon.
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Ally to former President Donald Trump Stephen Bannon on Thursday pleaded not guilty to charges of money laundering and conspiracy for allegedly misleading donors who gave money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, The Associated Press reports.

Per the indictment, New York prosecutors have accused Bannon of promising donors — who handed over more than $15 million to the private fundraiser "We Build the Wall" — that their money would go toward the border project, while concealing "his role in diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars to the drive's chief executive, who had promised to take no salary," Reuters summarizes.

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Brigid Kennedy

Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.