Two individuals close to Steve Bannon said late Tuesday night that Steve Bannon, one of former President Donald Trump's aides, is facing a state indictment in New York and will turn himself in.
The allegations' specifics lacked instant clarity. Late on Tuesday, the New York District Attorney's Office declined to comment.
Steve Bannon Expected To Surrender in New York Court
Steve Bannon will surrender himself on Thursday, according to The Washington Post, which broke the news of his impending indictment. Bannon was found guilty of contempt of Congress in July after he refused to appear before the House committee looking into the attack on the US Capitol on January 6.
On October 21, 2021, he will be sentenced, and the highest sentence he might receive is two years in prison. In August 2020, Steve Bannon was charged with an indictment for allegedly cheating contributors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars through the "We build the wall" campaign, a fundraising initiative to erect a wall along the southern border.
Donald Trump pardoned Steve Bannon just hours before he left office on Jan. 20, 2021. Bannon stated in a statement on Tuesday night that the Southern District of New York performed the same thing in August 2020 to try to take me out of the race, as per CBS News.
A border wall at the southern border of the United States was the goal of the project. Following Bannon's federal pardon, the New York office was still considering whether to file charges against him in February 2021. Steve Bannon was charged with stealing $1 million in contributions. On the counts, he had entered a not-guilty plea.
In the statement, it was mentioned that Bannon's home in Washington, DC, had been swatted, which is the act of calling a false 911 number to get a lot of police to the victim's house.
A caller said there had been a gunshot at the address in July and reportedly threatened to commit suicide if police went to the property. When the police showed up there, they realized it was a prank call right away.
Bannon Calls Accusations "Phony"
Steve Bannon has also been in the spotlight recently as a result of the multiple references he receives from Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Trump, and the book Breaking History. In Kushner's book, the president's son-in-law is accused of leaking information and Bannon threatens to 'tear you in half" if the president's son-in-law disagrees.
But it ends with Kushner assuring the president that he wasn't against granting Bannon's pardon after he was accused of engaging in a fraud scheme to gather private funding for a border wall. Kushner refers to Bannon as a toxic figure in the White House in his book. Bannon was "undermining us, battling with colleagues, and it just wasn't helping us achieve the plan," Ivanka Trump's husband continued.
He also pointed out that Bannon is now a strong admirer of the former president and is probably right on a lot of topics, according to Daily Mail. On Tuesday, Bannon referred to the accusations as phony and a politically driven attack. Bannon stated in a statement that "this is nothing more than a politicized political weaponization of the criminal justice system."
While a third man went to trial and had his case ended in a mistrial in June when the jury couldn't reach a verdict, two other individuals participating in the fundraising scam entered guilty pleas in the federal case. Since his time as a White House assistant, Bannon has regularly been the subject of criminal court investigations.
He became the closest Trump associate to be criminally convicted about the Capitol riot when he was found guilty of contempt of Congress less than two months ago for refusing to assist the special House committee looking into the Jan. 6 uprising, New York Post reported.
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