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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michael R. Sisak

Lawyer: Steve Bannon-linked border wall nonprofit is defunct

Curtis Means@2023

We Build the Wall, the nonprofit prosecutors say Steve Bannon worked with to dupe donors who gave money to build a wall on the U.S. southern border, is effectively out of business and can't afford to defend itself in a New York fraud case, a lawyer for the organization said Tuesday.

Justin Weddle, seeking to be removed from the case, told a judge that the last member of We Build the Wall’s board is resigning and that the entity has racked up a “significant outstanding bill” for legal services and that he has "no prospect of getting paid.”

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