Steve Bannon

Stephen Kevin Bannon born November 27 1953 is an American media executive political strategist and former investment banker He served as the White Houses chief strategist in the administration of US President Donald Trump during the first seven months of Trumps term He is a former executive chairman of Breitbart News and previously served on the board of the nowdefunct dataanalytics firm Cambridge Analytica In August 2020 Bannon and three others were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering in connection with the We Build the Wall campaign The defendants allegedly enriched themselves despite promising that all contributions would go to building a wall Bannon pleaded not guilty and was pardoned by Trump before his trial date Bannon was held in contempt of Congress in October 2021 after he refused to comply with a subpoena issued by the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack the House of Representatives committee investigating the 2021 United States Capitol attack He was indicted by a federal grand jury on two criminal charges of contempt of Congress In July 2022 he was convicted on both counts in a jury trial The two counts each carry a minimum of 30 days to a maximum of one year of incarceration as well as a 100100000 fine On September 8 2022 Steve Bannon was charged with statelevel money laundering and conspiracy counts in New York related to a We Build The Wall fundraising campaign to build a wall on the USMexico border On the same day Bannon turned himself in to the authorities He had previously been spared from federal prosecution in that case because of a pardon by former president Donald Trump on the last day of his presidency in 2021 Description above from the Wikipedia article Steve Bannon licensed under CC BYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia