How Steve Bannon Faces NY ‘Wall’ Prosecution After Trump Pardon

Steve Bannon is about to learn that a presidential pardon only goes so far in New York. Donald Trump pardoned his onetime top aide on his last day as president, allowing Bannon to avoid a trial on US charges that he defrauded contributors to a fund to build Trump’s wall on the US-Mexico border. Thanks to a state law enacted three years ago -- which was aimed at weakening Trump’s power to protect people in his orbit from criminal prosecutions -- the 68-year-old political consultant now will have to answer to an indictment over his role in the “We Build ...