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hlthe2b

(102,562 posts)
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 11:19 AM Aug 2020

Who is Kolfage, triple Amputee from Castle Rock, CO (arrested w Bannon)? Denver media is on it:

Castle Rock man among four indicted, accused of defrauding donors to border wall project
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon also accused of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering.

https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/castle-rock-man-indicted-border-wall-funding-campaign/73-c1b09d96-fbf6-46a4-b649-d5bb6c2ff4ea

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According to an indictment unsealed Thursday in New York, Bannon, Shea, Brian Kolfage, and Andrew Badolato siphoned money donated to the online "We Build The Wall" project -- which raised $25 million. Among the allegations is that the group transferred "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to Kolfage to support his "lavish lifestyle" and that the group concocted an elaborate scheme to cover up the payments. Each faces one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Federal prosecutors allege that Kolfage, a Purple Heart winner and triple amputee, "covertly took for his personal use more than $350,000 in funds that donors had given to We Build the Wall," that Bannon, "through a non-profit organization under his control ('Non-Profit-1'), received over $1 million from We Build the Wall." At least some of that money was spent by Bannon on personal expenses, according to the statement.



According to the statement, the four then "devised a scheme to route those payments from We Build the Wall to Kolfage indirectly through Non-Profit-1 and a shell company under Shea’s control, among other avenues. They did so by using fake invoices and sham “vendor” arrangements, among other ways, to ensure, as Kolfage noted in a text message to Badolato, that his pay arrangement remained 'confidential”' and kept on a 'need to know' basis.

In a December 2018 interview with 9NEWS, Shea's wife, Amanda, said she and her husband had met Kolfage several years earlier and eventually developed a conservative news website with him.

When Kolfage had the idea to set up a GoFundMe to help fund the border wall, Shea said she was immediately on board.
"He is just the face of it, because he's really good at that, and I do a lot of the backend stuff," Shea said during a Skype interview.

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Who is Kolfage, triple Amputee from Castle Rock, CO (arrested w Bannon)? Denver media is on it: (Original Post) hlthe2b Aug 2020 OP
Massively wrong wording, and a huge insult. SeattleVet Aug 2020 #1
Indeed... We still need editors. hlthe2b Aug 2020 #2

SeattleVet

(5,485 posts)
1. Massively wrong wording, and a huge insult.
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 01:50 PM
Aug 2020

One does not "win" the Purple Heart; it is earned with blood. It's not a competition.

The phrase "Purple Heart winner" is disgusting and an insult to all wounded veterans.

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