A Steve Bannon affiliate was sentenced to over 5 years in jail Tuesday for a scheme to tear off donors of a fundraising marketing campaign to construct a border wall with Mexico to be able to “line his personal pockets,” prosecutors introduced.
Timothy Shea, 52, of Castle Rock, Colorado, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court docket on Tuesday to five years and three months in jail after he was convicted for his position in bilking donors who contributed to the “We Build The Wall” GoFundMe marketing campaign.
The marketing campaign raised over $25 million and it’s believed that lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} have been stolen.
“Timothy Shea abused the belief of donors to ‘We Build the Wall,’ stole lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} in donations to line his personal pockets, and tried to hinder the federal investigation of his prison conduct,” Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams stated in a press release.
“The defendant has now been held accountable and faces jail time for his crimes.”
A jury discovered Shea responsible of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit cash laundering and obstruction of justice in October.
As a part of the sentencing, he was additionally ordered to pay over $3.6 million in restitution and forfeitures.
Shea was charged in 2020 alongside Bannon, the chairman of the fundraiser, Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato.
But Shea was the one one of many defendants to go to trial after Kolfage and Badolato took responsible pleas.
Bannon, the previous chief strategist for Trump when he was in workplace, was pardoned by President Trump earlier than he left workplace. Bannon nonetheless faces state prices for the scheme that weren’t lined beneath Trump’s pardon.
Kolfage, 41, was sentenced in April to 4 years behind bars for embezzling $350,000 from the marketing campaign. In April, Badolato, 58, was sentenced to a few years in jail.
Shea’s prison protection attorneys didn’t instantly return a request for remark Tuesday.
