Posted on 04/21/2022 4:48:40 PM PDT by conservative98
Two fraudsters who ripped off donors of a fundraising campaign that purportedly sought to collect money for a wall along the southern US border during Donald Trump’s presidency pleaded guilty Thursday for their roles in the scam.
The swindlers, Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato, each copped to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud during a remote hearing before Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan federal court.
Kolfage also pleaded guilty making false statements on tax returns to hide from the IRS the hundred of thousands of dollars he siphoned off from the GoFundMe campaign, which was dubbed “We Build the Wall.”
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In brief remarks at the plea hearing, both Kolfage and Badolato told Torres they knowingly lied to donors, claiming they would not take any of the cash for personal gain, as the online campaign raked in millions of dollars.
“I knew what I was doing was wrong and a crime,” Kolfage said after saying he falsely told donors he would not take a salary from the campaign.
Brian Kolfage allegedly lied to the IRS about raking in approximately $350,000 in GoFundMe donations.
Badolato added they claimed they would not take money from the fund in order to “bolster the reputation and in turn generate more donations.”
“I’m terribly, terribly sorry for what I did,” he said.
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Alinsky.
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
Lefties, Commies and Democrats never saw a law that they did not immediately fold, spindle and mutilate.
"Guilty as sin, free as a bird."
From CNN - the Manhattan (NY State) District Attorney is currently investigating Bannon for violating NY State laws, which are not affected by a federal pardon.
yeah. don’t buy anything about this bs article except that Kolfage was forced into a deal. not in his shoes, don’t know what the corrupt feds threatened him with.
but all the “fraudsters” i’ve ever heard about always keep their stated promise by putting up a real 5 miles of the best wall on the border you can see and touch for yourself and for less money then the fed gov’t to boot.
yeah, “fraudsters,” right. i know who the “fraudsters” in this case were, they were probably wearing armani suits and shouting to the chief fraudster “your honor.”
I donated to them, too. Brian Kolfage seemed legitimate.
When the Federal prosecutors are after you, you *WILL* plead guilty and say anything they tell you to say.
I know a man that went through this. They threatened his pension, they threatened to seize his house and leave his wife and children destitute, and they told him "if you beat one charge, we will file another charge, and we will keep filing charges against you until you are utterly bankrupt, and we will get you in the end."
They told him, "If you plead guilty, we will leave your pension alone, we will not go after your assets, we won't bankrupt you, we'll give you a year in prison and we will be done with you."
He took the deal, but he hates them with a blue purple passion from h3ll.
I don't want to go into details about his case because I don't want him to be identified, but he was railroaded.
This. The Courts are a scam and so are Federal prosecutors. They are entirely political and Trump should have fired every single one of them the same way Bill Clinton did.
I quote that one often. Alinsky's rules actually work.
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