Bannon Rocketed to Power, Now Is Charged in Border Wall Scam (1)

After Steve Bannon joined the online campaign We Build the Wall to raise private funds for the construction of a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, he made it clear there’d be “no deals I don’t approve.”

That’s according to an indictment unsealed in federal court on Thursday after Bannon was arrested aboard a yacht in Long Island Sound.

Later in the day, in a Lower Manhattan courtroom, the 66-year-old gadfly of the right and onetime top aide to President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to charges he conspired to commit fraud and launder money in the project. A tanned Bannon, ...