Originally Posted by
ClydeR
Steve Bannon, White House Chief Strategist during a few months of Trump's first year in office, was ordered to report to jail on July 1, 2024. He was convicted in July of 2022 of contempt of Congress and has been appealing that conviction ever since.
More interestingly, Bannon has a criminal trial scheduled in New York in September. The September trial relates to fundraising Bannon did in 2018 through 2020 to raise money to build the wall along the Mexican border. He was investigated by Trump's DOJ, which charged him and three others with staling the money. Shortly before midnight on January 19, 2021, the day before Biden's inauguration, Trump pardoned Bannon prior to his trial. The State of New York continued the work begun by Trump's DOJ. These are serious charges likely to carry significant jail time if he is convicted.
I will be interested in hearing the evidence to find out how much, if any, of the money went to Trump's businesses.
Trump did not pardon the other people whom the DOJ charged along with Bannon. Those others were convicted in federal courts.