Bannon update

[Takket]

If you are like me, you’ve been incredibly frustrated that this criminal was pardoned out of a fraud sentence and the s using appeals to stay out of jail for his contempt of congress sentence of four months. Well, looks like Bannon has a LOT more to worry about than just the contempt sentence. Granted anything he’s convicted of will just go into more potentially years long appeals, but this guys future is BLEAK

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/steve-bannon-you-in-danger?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

But the legal walls are finally closing in on Bannon. That federal, presidential pardon didn’t prevent Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg from charging Bannon under New York state law for those same illegal actions. That trial is set to begin in four months.

And Bannon’s primary financial benefactor, the shadowy Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, is now under indictment for bilking anti-communist dissidents out of one billion dollars. Earlier this month, a superceding indictment alleged that Guo’s business entities, some of which included Bannon as a partner and co-founder, were part of a criminal organization.

And it looks like Trump isn’t the only criminal defendant to stiff his lawyers. As The Daily Beast reported today, Bannon reportedly owes his attorneys nearly half a million dollars, and they are out to recover it.

All this adds up to some pretty bad news for Bannon. So let’s review where things stand with him, and why it might not be long before Bannon is off that podcast and behind bars where he belongs.

[badhair77]

1. I would love to see him crying behind bars.

Get that smirk off his face, permanently.

[Roy Rolling]

42. Disappointing headline

For a moment, I thought karma had caught up with him. Still, I wish him all he deserves as the fruits for his life of cultivating death in others. Whatever the fuck that may be.

Go ahead, surprise us god of all things material, spiritual, and everything in between.😂

[Rhiannon12866]

44. The entire title: Steve Bannon, You In Danger

He escaped accountability last time with a pardon, but the legal walls are closing in on him at last.

[pwb]

2. Good.

.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Few deserve life imprisonment more.

Traitor.

[UpInArms]

4. Steve Bannon Admits Bank Account May Have Evidence of Fraud

After failing to pay his lawyer nearly half a million dollars, he’s now clambering to halt a review of his personal finances—a situation that’s forcing him to admit something quite embarrassing: that there might be evidence of his border wall fraud scheme in his bank documents.

The conspiracy-spewing right-wing political agitator had the gall to stiff his lawyer, former federal prosecutor Robert “Bob” Costello, who stuck by him for years. Specifically, Costello was Bannon’s lawyer on a number of cases, including when he faced criminal charges for pocketing donor funds intended for a privately funded border wall between the United States and Mexico. So it was only a matter of time before the law firm of Davidoff Hutcher and Citron came knocking with a lawsuit, one that quickly resulted in a judge ordering Bannon to hand over the overdue $480,487.

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Protass also argued that subjecting Bannon to questions under oath from the aggrieved law firm’s attorneys “also poses a significant risk” for the same reason: he might say something damning that could bolster two ongoing criminal cases against him.

Bannon, who helped coordinate a key part of former President Donald Trump’s undemocratic plot to stay in power after losing the 2020 election, refused to testify about his so-called “Green Bay Sweep” to congressional investigators. As Bannon’s lawyer, Costello ran interference when the House Jan. 6 Committee issued a subpoena ordering the MAGA media figure to testify—and represented him when the Department of Justice followed up with criminal charges. Bannon was convicted by a Washington jury in 2022, but he remains out of prison while he appeals the judgment.

More at:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-admits-bank-account-may-have-evidence-of-fraud

[flying_wahini]

5. I'm betting he won't show up, trial or no trial.

He can live on his yacht but pull his plug on internet use. (Gotta be a way to do this?)
Watch him go crazy.

[progressoid]

6. Defrauded more than 11,000 donors in NY state alone.

Good god there are a lot of rubes out there.

Specifically, the indictment alleges that Bannon and his fake charity defrauded 430 Manhattan-based donors out of $33,600. Across the whole state, there were allegedly more than 11,000 donors defrauded out of more than $730,000. The very serious money laundering charges carry a prison sentence of between five to fifteen years, which could be added to should he also be found guilty of fraud and conspiracy.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. The indictment is a good read

Seems to me they have him by the balls:


https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22276877-steve-bannon-indictment

[progressoid]

20. Just started reading it. Only 4 pages into it and...

Unindicted Co- Conspirator 2 stated to Bannon that this promise “removes all self interest taint on this” and it “gives [Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1] saint hood.”

Bannon should be known from now on as "self interested taint"

[NBachers]

32. I can't sympathize with puke dupes who gave $$$ to Bannon; but I hope they've got their long legal knives out for him.

[surfered]

7. Thanks, you've brightened my day

[Carlitos Brigante]

8. So, he's still alive? I guess it's more like undead. But still, damn..... nt

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

9. A prison shower, shave and haircut will make him look less Harkonnen-esque

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[kimbutgar]

10. Please destroy him I'd love to see that SOB silenced and jailed!

[malaise]

11. Great news

Thanks and rec for visibility

[Martin68]

12. Thanks for the excellent news. I was afraid this dirty crook would get away with it thanks to

Trump’s pardon. Glad to hear the justice system and his own lawyers are after him.

[lindysalsagal]

13. These crooks believed tfg would pay their legal bills

Sad trombone: they're all broke: gqp, rnc, tfg,Rudy, all of them. Broke losers.

So.Much.Winning.

[Xolodno]

41. They are not broke, not by a longshot.

Where their money is, that's a different story. I bet they have plenty stored away in Cyprus, Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, etc. They keep enough here in the states for living expenses, so should they do get sued to oblivion, they declare BK and should they have to liquidate domestic holdings, they still have plenty to fall back on. Plenty of ways to launder money abroad. It's what I would do.

[momta]

14. Thanks for the update, Takket.

The wheels of justice are moving way too slowly in his case, but it's nice to know they're still turning.

[NBachers]

33. It's the Steamroller of Justice that I'm waiting for.

[sop]

16. Bannon should use some of that 'Seinfeld' syndication money to pay his legal bills.

Forbes reported that Bannon owns a 1% share of the syndication profits for 'Seinfeld,' they estimated he has received around $32.6 million since 1998.

[lastlib]

17. I want Roger Stone to live out his remaining years in the same cellblock....

But not as cellmates--that's too much.

[NBachers]

34. I want all Maggot crooks in separate units so they can't plot & collaborate with each other. No contact with each other

[housecat]

36. ...OR put Bannon, Flynn, Miller, Stone etc together with no

outside contact. They would surely kill each other.

[NBachers]

40. Lord of the Flies Wing

[Joinfortmill]

18. Just made my day. Bannon is a dangerous person, 'cause he's got a couple more brain cells than Trump.

[TexasBushwhacker]

38. Watch "American Dharma"

Interview with filmmaker Errol Morris. Totally absent of any moral character.

[ShazamIam]

19. Good news and Thanks for the post Takket, I scrolled around a few news feeds this AM and didn't see this. nt

[H2O Man]

21. Recommended!

[NEOBuckeye]

22. Send him to the dog pound.

This stay needs to be taken off the streets.

[Nightowl]

31. Dog Pound?

The dogs don't deserve that!

[NoMoreRepugs]

23. The prospect of that ShitStain spending some time behind bars makes me smile.

[Warpy]

24. Why is he still being considered above the law?

Send him off to serve his sentence like any other citizen.

[Alice Kramden]

25. KnR

Lock him up!

[GreenWave]

26. Oh this is the most wonderful time of the year!

[underpants]

27. I'd expect a similar sentence that Navarro got.

[Leghorn21]

28. As if this day hasn't already been FABULOUS, Takket!!

Things are looking grim indeed for Sloppy Steve, and OH, I could NOT be happier!!!

Thanks so much for posting!!!

[Mr.Bee]

29. He'll Podcast behind bars...

American First,
Americans Last
Make America Great for Trump

[dalton99a]

30. That piece of shit should die of liver cancer in prison.

[oldsoftie]

35. Well, I saw that title & thought he died.

[UTUSN]

37. K&R

[Blue Owl]

39. The one-man leper colony, as Tiedrich so eloquently calls him

[slightlv]

43. As much as he flies around the world,

trying to set up his "colleges" for training revolutionaries and chao agents, I'd wonder if he won't fly the coop... perhaps to Hungary... should the walls get any closer. This is one person who should have his passport taken away. He is a flight risk. He has no reason to stick around and hear the consequences of his actions.