A New York state courtroom Thursday set a trial date for former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon. On Might 27, 2024, Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg Jr. will start his trial towards Bannon, by which Bannon is accused of wrongly collecting greater than $15 million from US political donors for his “We Construct the Wall” group.
Bannon appeared briefly within the New York State Supreme Court docket, Prison Time period on Thursday earlier than Choose Juan Merchan. Merchan is similar decide overseeing Bragg’s unrelated prison case towards former President Donald Trump. On Tuesday, Trump appeared nearly earlier than Merchan the place he assigned a March 25, 2024 trial date to the previous president.
In September 2022, Bragg indicted Bannon and the not-for-profit company he based, WEBUILDTHEWALL, INC., on monetary fraud costs. Prosecutors allege that in 2019 Bannon lied to political donors, promising the cash donated to WEBUILDTHEWALL can be directed in direction of the development of a wall alongside the southern US border with Mexico. Bannon then diverted donated funds from WEBUILDTHEWALL in direction of salaries, which the group particularly informed donors it might not do. Bannon is charged with two counts of money laundering in the second degree, two counts of conspiracy in the fourth degree, one rely of scheme to defraud in the first degree, and one rely of conspiracy in the fifth degree.
Bannon is scheduled to seem once more earlier than Merchan on April 29, 2024, the place it’s anticipated each events will argue motions forward of the beginning of the trial.
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