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

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