Read more about With Steve Bannon arrest, ‘Sovereign District’ sends another salvo on Business Standard. If the recent firing of the top federal prosecutor was intended to quell criminal investigations into Trump’s close associates, federal prosecutors in New York appear to have missed the memo
If the recent firing of the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan was intended to quell criminal investigations into President Donald Trump’s close associates, as some have accused, federal prosecutors in New York appear to have missed the memo. Thursday’s arrest of Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, served as a stark reminder that no one who has been within the president’s inner circle is automatically immune from federal scrutiny. Bannon,66, and three others are charged with defrauding online donors in the name of helping build the president’s cherished southern border wall. Bannon pleaded not guilty at a hearing Thursday in Manhattan. The indictment came just two months after the abrupt dismissal of Geoffrey S Berman, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York who had overseen several investigations with tentacles into Trump’s orbit including one involving the business dealings of Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney.
