Bannon Associate Gets 30 Year Sentence for Fraud
A federal judge in Manhattan Monday sentenced self-exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui to 30 years in prison for financial fraud.
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Guo Wengui, Steve Bannon's friend and sponsor, just got 30 years on his latest fraud conviction. But don't worry, with Steve's help and some bitcoin, he has a pardon in his future. www.npr.org/2026/06/29/g ... [image or embed] -- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) 10:32 PM · Jun 29, 2026
Guo Wengui, Steve Bannon's friend and sponsor, just got 30 years on his latest fraud conviction. But don't worry, with Steve's help and some bitcoin, he has a pardon in his future. www.npr.org/2026/06/29/g ... [image or embed]
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Nothing a few million in bribes to Fat Donny Fail can't fix.
#1 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-06-30 01:44 PM | Reply
Wasted prosecutorial efforts against an imminent pardon recipient.
#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-30 06:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
Criminals of a feather flock together!
#3 | Posted by a_monson at 2026-06-30 08:55 PM | Reply
Well Congress could fix this except now the donors own Congress! We are so screwed!
#4 | Posted by danni at 2026-07-01 03:19 PM | Reply
Why do people who take money from other people willingly (I didn't see how it was fraudulent) get more time than people who fraudulently take money from the government?
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Very strange priorities.
#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-01 07:26 PM | Reply
What's to fix here? The "fraud" was caught?
#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-01 07:27 PM | Reply
@#4 ... Well Congress could fix this except now the donors own Congress! We are so screwed! ...
Yup.
The recent SCOTUS decision has apparently turned our elections over to moneyed interests.
Billionaires have more money to donate than workers.
So the workers will inherently, and by intent of SCOTUS, be underrepresented.
Not a good situation.
#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-01 10:08 PM | Reply
This one?
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The Supreme Court's decision in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC, striking down FECA's limits on political-party coordinated expenditures and overruling Colorado II, is a welcome and overdue correction. For a quarter century, campaign finance doctrine maintained an artificial constitutional distinction between parties and the candidates they exist to elect"treating a party's spending in cooperation with its own nominees as a species of suspect, regulable activity, even while the party's independent spending on the very same candidates went unregulated. Justice Kavanaugh's opinion is right to recognize that this line never made much sense. Parties and candidates are not adversaries who happen to share an interest; they are, as Justice Thomas put it in his Colorado II dissent, engaged in the ordinary, expected work of a party system"choosing standard-bearers, building platforms, and pooling resources to get them elected.
#8 | Posted by et_al at 2026-07-01 11:21 PM | Reply
I saw "Bannon" and instinctively knew it would be bad.
#9 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-07-02 11:40 AM | Reply
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