Steve Bannon associate sentenced to over 5 years in border wall fraud schemeBy Priscilla DeGregory
July 25, 2023
A Steve Bannon associate was sentenced to over five years in prison Tuesday for a scheme to rip off donors of a fundraising campaign to build a border wall with Mexico in order to “line his own pockets,” prosecutors announced.
Timothy Shea, 52, of Castle Rock, Colorado, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday to 5 years and 3 months in prison after he was convicted for his role in bilking donors who contributed to the “We Build The Wall” GoFundMe campaign.
The campaign raised over $25 million and it is believed that hundreds of thousands of dollars were stolen.
“Timothy Shea abused the trust of donors to ‘We Build the Wall,’ stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to line his own pockets, and attempted to obstruct the federal investigation of his criminal conduct,” Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement.
“The defendant has now been held accountable and faces prison time for his crimes.”
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https://nypost.com/2023/07/25/steve-bannon-associate-gets-over-5-years-in-border-wall-scheme/
