Bannon ally handed four-year prison term over Trump border-wall fraud

US air force veteran Brian Kolfage admitted to conspiring to defraud donors to campaign to build wall along US-Mexico border

Brian Kolfage, a US air force veteran and former associate of the Trump ally and adviser Steve Bannon, was sentenced on Wednesday to more than four years in prison after admitting to conspiring to defraud donors to a campaign to build a wall along the US-Mexican border, as promised by the former president.

Bannon, 69 and a former campaign chair and White House strategist for Trump, was also charged in the case but received a presidential pardon in the final hours of Trump's term.