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Steve Bannon: Rise & fall of ex-Trump aide now charged in border wall scam

His indictment came on the same morning the Trump administration lost a bid to block a subpoena by the Manhattan district attorney for the president's tax filings

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Bannon served as the chief executive of Trump’s 2016 campaign and was the ideological designer of his populist vision

David Yaffe-Bellany, Christian Berthelsen, Bob Van Voris and Justin Sink | Bloomberg

5 min read Last Updated : Aug 21 2020 | 8:54 AM IST

After Steve Bannon joined the online campaign We Build the Wall to raise private funds for the construction of a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, he made it clear there’d be “no deals I don’t approve.”

That’s according to an indictment unsealed in federal court on Thursday after Bannon was arrested aboard a yacht in Long Island Sound.

Later in the day, in a Lower Manhattan courtroom, the 66-year-old gadfly of the right and onetime top aide to President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to charges he conspired to commit fraud and launder money in the project. A tanned Bannon, with long

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