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The New York Times reports:
A Colorado man convicted last year of conspiring to defraud people who donated money to build the kind of border wall championed by Donald J. Trump was sentenced Tuesday to five years and three months in prison. The defendant, Timothy Shea, began working with a disabled veteran named Brian Kolfage.
In early 2019 Stephen K. Bannon, the former Trump adviser, and Andrew Badolato, a financier from Florida, joined them to form a group called We Build the Wall. The group raised more than $25 million, saying that everything it took in would go toward the wall. Mr. Kolfage, We Build the Wall’s public face, promised he would “not take a penny.”
Prosecutors said that instead the defendants stole more than a million dollars from the group, spending some on jewelry, boat payments and cases of a Trump-themed energy drink that claimed to contain “liberal tears.”
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Judge: This Court has previously sentenced Mr. Kolfage to 51 months, and Mr. Badolato to 36 months. Both have medical problems that Mr. Shea doesn’t. I sentence you Mr. Shea to 63 months in prison
— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) July 25, 2023
A Colorado businessman convicted of fraudulently siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from an online fundraiser to build a wall along the U.S. southern border has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison. Timothy Shea was senten… https://t.co/sU5YlcwqBU
— The Gazette (@csgazette) July 25, 2023