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Manhattan DA subpoenas Bannon financial records - report
Joanna
Walters
The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance, has
subpoenaed financial records related to Steve Bannon’s crowd-funding US-Mexico
border wall effort, signaling that its criminal investigation into the one time
chief strategist for the former US president, Donald Trump, is making progress,
sources familiar with the matter have told CNN.
The outlet
further reported that:
Prosecutors
sent the subpoenas after Trump pardoned Bannon in late January for federal
conspiracy crimes tied to the southern border-wall project, making Bannon among
the Trump world figures -- including the former president -- subjects of
criminal investigations by Vance.
The grand
jury subpoenas were sent to Wells Fargo, one of the financial institutions that
handled some of the accounts used in the fundraising effort, and to GoFundMe,
the crowdfunding platform where Bannon’s project, “We Build the Wall,” once
operated to drum up private funds for the wall project, the people said.
The state
grand jury investigation revives the possibility that Bannon, the conservative
and outspoken political strategist, could face state criminal charges after
shedding the federal case last month.
In addition
to the criminal investigation, the New Jersey attorney general’s office has
launched a civil inquiry into We Build the Wall.
In
September, the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs subpoenaed We Build the
Wall for documents seeking a wide range of records, according to court filings.
The move by
Vance comes as he is investigating Trump and the Trump Organization for
potential financial crimes, including insurance fraud and tax fraud, according
to people familiar with the matter. Trump has called the investigation a witch
hunt and fishing expedition.
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