Steve Bannon turned himself in to the Manhattan district attorney's office, where he is expected to face criminal charges of financial fraud. According to a source familiar, he must turn over his passport and will be arraigned at 2:30 p.m.
turned himself in Thursday morning to the Manhattan district attorney's office, where he is expected to face criminal charges of financial fraud.already pardoned
. However, that presidential Get Out of Jail card only applied to a previous federal case that had to be dropped. The DA operates at a state level and doesn’t have to abide by that pardon. Bannon must turn over his passport and is scheduled to be arraigned at 2:30 p.m., according to a source familiar with the case. That person said the DA’s case is being handled by two prosecutors in the office’s economic crimes bureau: assistant district attorneys Daniel Passeser and Michael Frantel.
The U.S. Constitution guarantees that a person cannot be prosecuted twice for the same crime, a concept known as “double jeopardy.” However, New Yorkers fed up with rampant corruption during the Trump administration sought to create a loophole of sorts in 2019, allowing the state to pursue criminal charges on a local level that weren’t being addressed at the federal one.
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