Fisher Industries, who received funding from Steve Bannon’s ‘We Build the Wall’ campaign has ties to past criminal and civil wrongdoing.
Getty Steve Bannon’s ‘Build the Wall’ campaign hired controversial Fisher Industries to build Trump’s border wall. Stephen K. Bannon was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering on August 20, 2020. The former top advisor to President Donald Trump was federally charged along with three others, Timothy Shea, Andrew Badolato, and Brian Kolfage, for their involvement in what prosecutors say was scheme to steal funds from donors to the “We Build The Wall” campaign, according to a press release from the U. S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. While Fisher Industries was not named in the indictment, it is the parent company of Fisher Sand & Gravel, the construction company hired by Bannon’s “We Build the Wall” campaign to make the 3-mile Texas wall a reality. Tommy Fisher, CEO of the family-owned company, went on Fox News to personally lobby for Trump’s attention, and win his firm the project. On March 5, 2019, Fisher said on Fox & Friends that his company could build 234 miles of border wall for $4.3 billion, well under the $5.7 billion that the Trump administration had requested from Congress. How a CEO’s repeated appearances in conservative media might get him the border wall contractTommy Fisher, president of Fisher Industries, has made repeated appearances in conservative media touting his multibillion-dollar plan, insisting he can build the wall faster and for less than his competitors. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK Follow us: Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/2019-05-24T19:59:38Z Fisher Industries, which has eight divisions and an estimated 1,200 employees, beat out the five competing firms asked to develop prototypes of the wall to win the $400 million border wall contract. Despite their award being repeatedly contested, and the company’s history of criminal tax evasion, pollution citations, environmental fines, and a former CEO charged with child pornography, Bannon’s privately funded campaign chose their firm to build the wall. Here’s what you need to know about Fisher Industries checkered past: David William Fisher, who was the foreman at Fisher Sand & Gravel, and chairman of the Dickinson United Methodist Church’s administrative council, pleaded guilty in 2005 to child pornography charges, according to the Bismarck Tribune. Fisher acknowledged to U. S. District Judge Daniel Hovland that he possessed two short video clips and an estimated 23 computer files of child pornography in March 2003. According to court documents obtained by the Bismarck Tribune, six of the images were of a 10-year-old girl whom Fisher had hired to help with office chores.
