Two plead guilty to pocketing funds raised for ‘We Build the Wall’ project

Co-founder of project to raise money for US-Mexico wall pleads guilty in case that once included Trump's adviser Steve Bannon

The co-founder of the We Build The Wall" project aimed at raising money for a border wall pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in a case that once included Donald Trump's adviser Steve Bannon.

Brian Kolfage admitted to pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars while promising all donations would pay for the wall. His plea came a month before a trial in a case that began in dramatic fashion in August 2020, when Bannon was pulled from a luxury yacht off the coast of Connecticut and arrested on allegations that he and three others ripped off donors trying to fund a southern border wall.