Bannon admitted to one count of scheming to defraud in the first degree stemming from the proposed construction of a private U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Manhattan state prosecutors had accused the former Trump adviser of defrauding donors who gave to a nonprofit supporting a wall on the southern U.S. border

Right-wing pundit Steve Bannon pleaded guilty to a fraud charge Tuesday in his Manhattan case, admitting he scammed supporters of Donald Trump’s immigration policies during his first term.