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We Build The Wall founder sentenced to 4 years in prison
Associated Press ^ | April 26, 2023 | Jake Offenhartz

Posted on 04/26/2023 11:11:16 AM PDT by Olog-hai

The co-founder of a fundraising group linked to Steve Bannon that promised to help Donald Trump construct a wall along the southern U.S. border was sentenced to four years and three months in prison on Wednesday for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors.

Brian Kolfage, a decorated Air Force veteran who lost both of his legs and an arm in the Iraq War, previously pleaded guilty for his role in siphoning donations from the We Build the Wall campaign.

A co-defendant, financier Andrew Badolato, was also sentenced to three years for aiding the effort. He had also pleaded guilty. A third man involved in siphoning funds from the wall project, Colorado businessman Tim Shea, won’t be sentenced until June.

Kolfage and Badolato were also ordered to pay $25 million in restitution to the victims. …

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1 posted on 04/26/2023 11:11:16 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Disgusting.


2 posted on 04/26/2023 11:16:53 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Olog-hai

I believed in Kolfage and am very disappointed in him. And Bannon? What?


3 posted on 04/26/2023 11:20:25 AM PDT by KittyKares
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To: Olog-hai

Did they REALLY divert $$$$ to their own use, or is this yet another dirty hit job by the LIEberal SCUM?


4 posted on 04/26/2023 11:20:29 AM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: Taxman

Exactly. This smells like a hit job.


5 posted on 04/26/2023 11:22:24 AM PDT by JayGalt (Convenience is the bait in which the true poison is concealed.)
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To: Taxman

Apparently Kolfage was to plead guilty according to other sources who reported this on the eighth of this month.


6 posted on 04/26/2023 11:25:26 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Anyone ever seen Kofalge’s blonde wife? She’s smoking hot!


7 posted on 04/26/2023 11:25:56 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
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To: Taxman

We will know when some big guns from the left start going to jail.


8 posted on 04/26/2023 11:31:46 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Taxman

We will know the justice system is fair when some big guns from the left start going to jail.


9 posted on 04/26/2023 11:33:18 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Taxman

HIT JOB, clearing the decks for the coming climate lockdown, that will mirror the book 1984 by the time it is completed.


10 posted on 04/26/2023 11:35:22 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (Repent, turn back to your first Love. If you do well you will be blessed, if not...America 2023)
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To: DesertRhino
Disgusting.

Yes, it is very disgusting that the corrupt Federal Justice system can prosecute political enemies and imprison them for bullsh*t made up charges.

But this is where we are now. We are on the edge of Nazism.

11 posted on 04/26/2023 11:41:24 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Apparently Kolfage was to plead guilty according to other sources who reported this on the eighth of this month.

The way a Federal prosecutor works is they can threaten to keep you in prison forever if you don't plead guilty. It is my understanding they "win" most of their cases by forcing the defendant to plead guilty.

They use extortion and any threat they can think of to push people into pleading guilty.

12 posted on 04/26/2023 11:43:49 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

The Bill of Rights means nothing to those “prosecutors”, of course.


13 posted on 04/26/2023 11:54:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Leep

Beginning after President Trump becomes POTUS 47 in January, 2025!


14 posted on 04/26/2023 12:01:53 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: Glad2bnuts

Perhaps we can head that Dystopian World off?

We can, but it will not be an easy chore!

When we WIN, though, it will be a SWEEEEEEEEET VICTORY!


15 posted on 04/26/2023 12:03:42 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: Olog-hai

He “got an offer he could not refuse?”

I refuse to believe Kolfage is anything but the victim of an EVIL prosecution!


16 posted on 04/26/2023 12:05:49 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: Taxman

Once Biden usurped, the political imprisonments that started under Obama resumed.


17 posted on 04/26/2023 12:11:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought new, state charges against Bannon last year. He is awaiting trial. Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes, not state offenses. Bannon has called the case “nonsense.”

You can be assured that the case is complete bull chit.

18 posted on 04/26/2023 12:15:03 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: Olog-hai

THERE WILL BE A RECKONING!


19 posted on 04/26/2023 12:23:41 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: Olog-hai

Meanwhile, the Clinton Foundation syphoned off $31 million from the “Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund” to pay for Webb Hubble’s daughters wedding. /spit


20 posted on 04/26/2023 12:55:05 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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