FRIDAY, August 21, 2020 NEWS & CLASSIFIEDS TEMPLE DAILY TELEGRAM / 5B PRESIDENT TRUMP Ex-aide arrested, pleads not guilty in border wall scheme BY LARRY NEUMEISTER, Manafort, whom sel; Erik Prince, founder of non months ago but did not the campaign and warned that on the upcoming presidential COLLEEN LONG Bannon re- the controversial security firm say whether the president had it would return donations un- election, said it seemed clear AND JILL COLVIN placed; his long- Blackwater; former Republi- been informed. less the money was transferred that prosecutors were “attack- ASSOCIATED PRESS time lawyer, can Rep. Tom Tancredo of According to the indictment, to a legitimate nonprofit. Ban- ing political infrastructure that Michael Cohen; Colorado; and former major the defendants used fake in- non was brought in around supports President Trump NEW YORK — President and his former league baseball pitcher Curtis voices, another nonprofit and that time. right before the election.” He Donald Trump’s former chief national security Schilling. They were not sham vendor arrangements to It originally promoted a proj- was not charged in the case. BANNON strategist Steve Bannon adviser, Michael named in the indictment. try to hide their efforts to ect for 3 miles of fence posts Benjamin Harnwell, who pleaded not guilty to charges Flynn. Trump has also made Trump quickly distanced siphon money. Under the in South Texas that was ulti- with Bannon launched an in- that he ripped off donors to an clear that he is willing to use himself from Bannon while arrangement, Bannon and his mately built and largely stitute in Italy to train future online fundraising scheme to his near-limitless pardon claiming he knew nothing co-defendants allegedly paid funded by Fisher Industries, populists, called the indict- build a southern border wall in power to help political allies about the project and never Kolfage $100,000 up front which has received about $2 ment “spurious” and evidence federal court Thursday, hours escape legal jeopardy, most believed in a privately fi- and an additional $20,000 billion in funding for wall con- that the “forces of darkness” after he was pulled from a recently commuting the sen- nanced barrier. monthly, all while claiming tracts. The company’s CEO, would stop at nothing to de- yacht off the coast of Con- tence of longtime political ad- “When I read about it, I did- they served as volunteers and Tommy Fisher, did not re- stroy Bannon. necticut and arrested. viser Roger Stone. n’t like it. I said this is for that Kolfag was not paid. spond to calls for comment. The combative Bannon led He and three others were Bannon was taken into cus- government, this isn’t for pri- The indictment said Kolfage In 2019, Kolfage and Fisher the conservative Breitbart charged in an indictment un- tody around 7 a.m. by the U.S. vate people. And it sounded to “went so far as to send mass successfully constructed a News before being tapped to sealed Thursday in Manhattan Postal Inspection Service on a me like showboating,” he told emails to his donors asking half-mile of bollard-style bor- serve as chief executive offi- federal court. 150-foot luxury yacht called reporters at the White House, them to purchase coffee from der fence on privately donated cer of Trump’s campaign in its At his hearing the same day, Lady May, which was off the adding that he felt “very his unrelated business, telling land in New Mexico near of El critical final months. A voice Bannon had his hands cuffed coast of Connecticut, authori- badly” about the situation. donors the coffee company Paso. Construction faced re- of nationalist, outsider conser- in front of him while a large, ties said. The boat is owned An immigration plan un- was the only way he ‘keeps sistance from local authorities vatism, he later served as white mask covered most of by exiled Chinese billionaire veiled by Trump last year in- his family fed and a roof over in New Mexico and Texas and chief strategist during the tur- his face. He rocked back and Guo Wengui and currently for cluded a proposal to allow the their head.’” drew accusations of improper bulent early months of forward as he sat on a chair in sale for nearly $28 million. public to donate toward his Kolfage eventually spent permitting. In May, federal of- Trump’s administration and a holding cell at Manhattan Neither Bannon, nor his long-promised wall, as the some of the over $350,000 he ficials found that a section of was at the forefront of many federal court, from where he spokesperson or attorney re- Kolfage group had originally received on home renovations, Fisher’s privately funded wall of the administration’s most appeared via video as his sponded to requests for com- said was its mission before payments toward a boat, a lux- violated flood construction contentious policies, includ- lawyers were on the tele- ment Thursday. Kolfage did changing it to private con- ury SUV, a golf cart, jewelry, standards along the Rio ing its travel ban on several phone. not respond either. Also struction of their own wall. cosmetic surgery, personal tax Grande. It also caused erosion. majority-Muslim countries. The magistrate judge ap- charged were Andrew But Trump later denounced payments and credit card debt. Dustin Stockton, who But Bannon also clashed with proved Bannon’s release on Badolato and Timothy Shea, the project publicly, tweeting Charges included conspiracy helped start the campaign and other top advisers and was $5 million bail, secured by the owner of an energy drink last month that he “disagreed to commit wire fraud and con- then left the project to work pushed out. $1.75 million in assets. company called Winning En- with doing this very small spiracy to commit money The “We Build The Wall” ergy. The company’s cans fea- (tiny) section of wall, in a laundering. fundraiser was headed by men ture a cartoon superhero tricky area, by a private group Originally called “We the who pushed their close ties to image of Trump and claim to which raised money by ads” People Build the Wall,” the President Trump, giving their contain “12 oz. of liberal and claiming, “It was only campaign launched in Decem- effort a legitimacy that helped tears.” done to make me look bad.” ber 2018 and raised approxi- them raise more than $25 mil- Other prominent members Attorney General William mately $17 million in its first lion. of the wall group included for- Barr told The Associated week. But it soon drew As a UHC resource center, we collect But according to the crimi- mer Kansas Secretary of State Press he had been made aware scrutiny. 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