Steve Bannon declares himself guilty in the case of New York, we build the wall ‘

Steve Bannon, an ally of President Donald Trump for a long time, declared himself guilty on Tuesday of fraud for serious crime for helping donors who were giving money to build a wall in the Southern border of the United States.

In exchange for the statement of guilt in the New York Criminal Court, Bannon, 71, agreed to a high conditional and resigned from his right to appeal.

Bannon was sentenced to a three -year conditional discharge. It will not be allowed to serve as an officer or director of a charity or any charity organization in the state of New York, or any fundraising organization or not for profit in the state of New York. You will not be allowed to receive or have assets for any charitable organization. Nor can it be arrested during that period of time.

If you violate the terms of the agreement, you could face between 1 1/3 to 4 years after bars.

Judge April Newbauer asked Bannon if he understood the terms of what he accepted. “Yes, honor,” Bannon replied.

In a statement, Manhattan district prosecutor Alvin Bragg, said: “This resolution achieves our main objective: protect the charity organizations of New York and the charitable donations of the New Yorkers of fraud.”

Bannon was not regretted after the court, and called Bragg and the state attorney general Letitia James an “existential threat” for the Trump administration, apparently referring to the criminal and civil Cases that the two had filed against the president.

“I am asking the attorney general Pam Bondi to begin an immediate criminal investigation into Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, all for what they did to President Trump,” said Bannon.

Bannon was the first hit with scheme -related charges In a different case by federal prosecutors In August 2020. He declared himself innocent and it was forgiven by Trump in the last hours of his first term in office.

Bragg’s office prosecutors accused Bannon in the current case in August 2022, when he was beaten with six money laundering charges, conspiracy and a scheme to disappoint. Bannon declared himself innocent at that time and described the “partisan political weapon of the criminal justice system”.

The accusation accused Bannon and other taxpayers by defrauding that they gave money for the construction of a southern border wall during Trump’s first mandate. Prosecutors say it scammed donors who contributed more than $ 15 million in 2019 as part of a fundraising campaign called “we built the wall.”

Bannón and the others If I had said that 100% of donations would be used to build the wall, one of the promises of the Trump campaign in 2016, and not towards people who execute that effort. Federal authorities said Bannon used their non -profit organization to receive more than $ 1 million wall construction funds, and used that money to pay the president of the Wall group.

Bannon had been scheduled to be tried on March 4. Trump could not forgive him because he faced state, non -federal positions.

Bannon spent Four months in jail Last year, after being convicted of contempt for Congress, for refusing to testify to a select committee of the House of Representatives that investigates the events surrounding the disturbances of the Capitol of January 6, 2021. The records of the White House They had shown that Bannon had multiple conversations with Trump in or immediately before January 6.

This article was originally published in Nbcnews.com