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Victoria Bekiempis

Legal fallout for Trump cronies persists despite his pardons

Steve Bannon speaks outside court in New York on 8 September.
Steve Bannon speaks outside court in New York on 8 September. Photograph: Yuki Iwamura/AP

When the far-right firebrand Steve Bannon was hit with fresh fraud charges for an alleged border wall fundraising scheme, he joined the ranks of several close Donald Trump cronies recently prosecuted by the Manhattan district attorney’s office.

In 2019, then district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr brought mortgage fraud charges against Paul Manafort, Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman. And in 2021, the current district attorney, Alvin Bragg, charged the former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg with fraud, and Ken Kurson with felony cyberstalking, in separate cases.

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