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Home›Personal Pages›Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato plead guilty to “We Build the Wall” fraud

Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato plead guilty to “We Build the Wall” fraud

By Rosa K. White
April 21, 2022
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Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Kolfage also pleaded guilty to two counts of filing a false tax return and one count of wire fraud in connection with filing a false tax return.

“I knew what I was doing was wrong and a crime,” Kolfage told the judge. The two men will be sentenced on September 6.

The men are accused by federal prosecutors of using hundreds of thousands of dollars donated to an online crowdfunding campaign called We Build the Wall for personal expenses, among other things.
Bannon, who pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing, was pardoned by then-President Trump in his final days in office. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is investigating Bannon for the same behavior and to determine if he violated state law. The pardon only covered federal crimes.

Timothy Shea, a fourth man charged in the fundraising effort, has pleaded not guilty. Last month he told the judge he would plead guilty, but changed his mind and is due to stand trial next month.

Bannon and Kolfage promised donors that the campaign, which ultimately raised more than $25 million, was “a voluntary organization” and that “100% of the funds raised…will be used in carrying out our mission and our goal,” according to the indictment.

But instead, prosecutors say, Bannon, through a nonprofit under his control, used more than $1 million from We Build the Wall to “secretly” pay Kolfage and cover up. hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bannon’s personal expenses.

Kolfage, according to the charges, spent more than $350,000 of the donations on personal expenses, including cosmetic surgery, a luxury SUV, a golf cart, payments for a boat, home renovations, jewelry, payments personal taxes and credit card debt.

Kolfage, an Air Force veteran and Purple Heart recipient who had his legs and right arm amputated after being injured in a 2004 explosion in Iraq, previously helped run several Facebook pages and websites for right-wingers who shared conspiracy theories and political fake news. .

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