NEW YORK (AP) - Former White House adviser Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday on charges that he and three others ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme ``We Build The Wall.''
The charges were contained in an indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court.
Federal prosecutors alleged that Bannon and three others ``orchestrated a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of donors'' in connection with an online crowdfunding campaign that raised more than $25 million to build a wall along the southern border of the United States.
A phone at the office of Bannon's lawyer went unanswered Thursday morning.
A spokeswoman for Bannon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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