{"id":33042,"date":"2025-02-11T16:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/steven-bannon-pleads-guilty-to-scheme-to-defraud-in-border-wall-fundraiser-avoids-jail-time\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T16:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:03:32","slug":"steven-bannon-pleads-guilty-to-scheme-to-defraud-in-border-wall-fundraiser-avoids-jail-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/steven-bannon-pleads-guilty-to-scheme-to-defraud-in-border-wall-fundraiser-avoids-jail-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Bannon pleads guilty to scheme to defraud in border wall fundraiser, avoids jail time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a charge that he defrauded donors who gave money to a private campaign to build a wall along the U.S. southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Bannon pleaded guilty to one scheme to defraud count and was sentenced to three years conditional discharge. He will avoid jail time as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plea agreement<\/a> as long as he stays out of trouble.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When reporters asked Bannon how he felt as he left the courtroom, he responded: &#8220;Like a million bucks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bannon&#8217;s lawyer told reporters outside the court that there was no way his client could get a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-ally-steve-bannon-pledges-take-down-elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP ALLY STEVE BANNON PLEDGES TO \u2018TAKE\u2026 DOWN\u2019 ELON MUSK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bannon, 71, pleaded not guilty in September 2022 to a state court indictment charging him with money laundering, fraud and conspiracy in the &#8220;We Build the Wall&#8221; scheme.<\/p>\n<p><i>This is a breaking news story; check back for updates.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a charge that he defrauded donors who gave money to a private campaign to build a wall along the U.S. southern border. Bannon pleaded guilty to one scheme to defraud count and was sentenced to three years conditional discharge. He will &#8230; <a title=\"Steven Bannon pleads guilty to scheme to defraud in border wall fundraiser, avoids jail time\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/steven-bannon-pleads-guilty-to-scheme-to-defraud-in-border-wall-fundraiser-avoids-jail-time\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Steven Bannon pleads guilty to scheme to defraud in border wall fundraiser, avoids jail time\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}