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  Former Trump political adviser and exiled Chinese businessman raised more than $300 million in private offering, Guo says By  Brian Spegele ,  Sha Hua  and  Aruna Viswanatha Aug. 19, 2020 1:17 pm ET A media company linked to former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon and exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui raised more than $300 million in a private offering this spring that is now being investigated by federal and state authorities, say people familiar with the matter. Exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui built a large following online, particularly among the Chinese diaspora in the U.S. and elsewhere. NATALIE KEYSSAR FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL  WSJ NEWS EXCLUSIVE  U.S. Fundraising at Company Tied to Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui Faces Probe Former Trump political adviser and exiled Chinese businessman raised more than $300 million in private offering, Guo says By  Brian Spegele,  Sha Hua and Aruna Viswanatha Aug. 19, 2020 1:17 pm ET A m...

 Steve Bannon runs the new vast right-wing conspiracy—and he wants to take down both Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush. By Joshua Green | October 8, 2015 From Bloomberg Businessweek Photographs by Jeremy Liebman for Bloomberg Businessweek It’s nearing midnight as Steve Bannon pushes past the bluegrass band in his living room and through a crowd of Republican congressmen, political operatives, and a few stray Duck Dynasty cast members. He’s trying to make his way back to the SiriusXM Patriot radio show, broadcasting live from a cramped corner of the 14-room townhouse he occupies a stone’s throw from the Supreme Court. It’s late February, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference is in full swing, and Bannon, as usual, is the whirlwind at the center of the action. Bannon is the executive chairman of Breitbart News, the crusading right-wing populist website that’s a lineal descendant of the Drudge Report (its late founder, Andrew Breitbart, spent years apprenticing with Matt Drud...

  Bannon’s Work With Wanted Chinese Billionaire Began Shortly After He Left White House Stephen K. Bannon, once President Trump’s top political adviser, struck up a business relationship with a mysterious and wanted Chinese billionaire just after his White House job ended. Bannon’s Work With Wanted Chinese Billionaire Began Shortly After He Left White House Stephen K. Bannon, once President Trump’s top political adviser, struck up a business relationship with a mysterious and wanted Chinese billionaire just after his White House job ended. Almost immediately after ending his White House employment, Stephen K. Bannon, the former chief strategist to President Trump, forged a lucrative financial relationship with a mysterious Chinese billionaire who was sought by Beijing for extradition from the United States. China’s government had already accused Guo Wengui, a real estate magnate also known as Miles Kwok, of money laundering, bribery and rape when he and Mr. Bannon developed a mutua...

  Stephen K. Bannon speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 23 in National Harbor, Md. (Michael Brochstein / TNS) By DEL QUENTIN WILBER , CHRIS MEGERIAN, SARAH D. WIRE, JENNIFER HABERKORN AUG. 14, 20207:44 PM UPDATED 8 PM WASHINGTON —  The Senate Intelligence Committee has sent a bipartisan letter to the Justice Department asking federal prosecutors to investigate Stephen K. Bannon, a former Trump confidant, for potentially lying to lawmakers during its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The letter, a copy of which was reviewed by The Times, was signed by the panel’s then-chairman, Republican Sen. Richard M. Burr, and its ranking Democrat, Sen. Mark Warner. For the record: 10:57 AM, Aug. 15, 2020A previous version of this article reported that the Senate Intelligence Committee referred the Bannon case to the U.S. attorney’s office after Robert S. Mueller III testified to the panel about his investigation. The case wa...

  The Los Angles Times says the senators sent a letter last year calling for a criminal investigation. As the president’s battles over mail voting, the US Postal Service, and COVID-19 funding dominate headlines, a significant piece of news touching on alleged criminal activity by several close Trump associates and family members flew largely under the radar. On Friday night the Los Angeles Times reported that the Senate Intelligence Committee sent a bipartisan criminal referral to the US Department of Justice last summer asking for investigations into Stephen Bannon, a former Trump confidant and strategist; Erik Prince, the head of a mercenary security company and the brother of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos; and Sam Clovis, Trump’s 2016 campaign co-chairman. According to the Times, each of those three Trump associates may have lied during congressional testimony, and both Republicans and Democrats on the committee wanted DOJ to investigate whether criminal charges would be wa...

  By Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman Jan. 3, 2018 WASHINGTON — President Trump excommunicated his onetime chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, from his circle on Wednesday, ending for now a partnership of convenience that transformed American politics while raising questions about the future of the nationalist-populist movement they cultivated together. The rupture came after Mr. Bannon was quoted in a new book disparaging the president’s children, asserting that Donald Trump Jr. had been “treasonous” in meeting with Russians and calling Ivanka Trump “dumb as a brick.” Mr. Trump, described by his spokeswoman as “furious, disgusted,” fired back by saying that Mr. Bannon had “lost his mind.” In a written statement, the president excoriated Mr. Bannon as a self-promoting exaggerator who had “very little to do with our historic victory” in the 2016 presidential election and was “only in it for himself.” Rather than representing Mr. Trump’s hard-core political base or supporting his age...

  Former Breitbart News head Stephen Bannon was accused by his ex-wife during divorce proceedings of trying to thwart her efforts to send their children to schools with large Jewish student populations. Claudia Rosenbaum BuzzFeed News Reporter Andrew Kaczynski BuzzFeed News Reporter Posted on August 26, 2016, Donald Trump's campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, was accused by his ex-wife during divorce proceedings of trying to thwart her efforts to send their children to private schools with large numbers of Jewish students, citing his disdain for "whiny brats." "He said that he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be ‘whiny brats' and that he didn’t want the girls to go to school with Jews," his ex-wife, Mary Louise Piccard, claimed in court fillings reviewed by BuzzFeed News. Bannon's spokesperson, Alexandra Preate, denied that he ever made the comments. "Mr. Bannon said he never said anything like that and proudly s...

  Donald Trump's campaign CEO Stephen Bannon was branded an anti-Semite by the same ex-wife who claimed he choked her, court documents reveal. Mary Louise Piccard said in a 2007 court declaration that Bannon didn't want their twin daughters attending the Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles because many Jewish students were enrolled at the elite institution. "The biggest problem he had with Archer is the number of Jews that attend," Piccard said in her statement signed on June 27, 2007. "He said that he doesn't like the way they raise their kids to be 'whiny brats' and that he didn't want the girls going to school with Jews," Piccard wrote. "I told him that there are children who are Jewish at (a competing school), and he asked me what the percentage was. I told him that I didn't know because it wasn't an issue for me as I am not raising the girls to be either anti-Semitic or prejudiced against anyone," she wrote. The teet...

Stephen Bannon is pictured during a round table with the Republican Leadership Initiative at Trump Tower.Carlo Allegri / Reuters Aug. 28, 2016, 5:16 AM CST / Updated Aug. 28, 2016, By Elizabeth Chuck, Ali Vitali and Andrew Blankstein Who is Trump's new campaign manager, Steve Bannon? AUG. 20, 201613:44 The ex-wife of Donald Trump's new campaign chief executive Steve Bannon claims Bannon made anti-Semitic comments while the couple fought over which private school to send their daughters to nearly a decade ago. The allegations — which came to light amid scrutiny over the appointment of Breitbart News head Bannon to Trump campaign CEO —were made in a sworn declaration by the ex-wife in a 2007 court filing. The court declaration was filed in the midst of a contentious divorce battle between them that lasted 10 years. The divorce was initiated in 1997, but disagreements over schooling choices for the couple's twin girls brought them back to court a decade later. One of many docu...

 Anti-Semitic Trump campaign CEO Stephen Bannon not a big fan of ‘whiny brat’ Jews, ex-wife says By NANCY DILLON NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | AUG 27, 2016 Donald Trump's campaign CEO Stephen Bannon was branded an anti-Semite by the same ex-wife who claimed he choked her, court documents reveal. Mary Louise Piccard said in a 2007 court declaration that Bannon didn't want their twin daughters attending the Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles because many Jewish students were enrolled at the elite institution. "The biggest problem he had with Archer is the number of Jews that attend," Piccard said in her statement signed on June 27, 2007. "He said that he doesn't like the way they raise their kids to be 'whiny brats' and that he didn't want the girls going to school with Jews," Piccard wrote. "I told him that there are children who are Jewish at (a competing school), and he asked me what the percentage was. I told him that I didn't know bec...