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   On 21 Jun 2024, "Donald J. Trump"  posted some   
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   Steve Bannon’s upcoming criminal fraud trial in New York will no longer be   
   overseen by the same judge who presided over Donald Trump’s hush money   
   trial, and instead a new judge has been reassigned to take the case.   
      
   As the one time Trump adviser prepares to report to prison next Monday for   
   defying a congressional subpoena in a separate case, Judge Juan Merchan   
   will no longer handle his trial in the same courthouse where the former   
   president was convicted. Merchan was not removed from the case, but has   
   another case that conflicts with Bannon’s trial, according to the office   
   of court administration.   
      
   The administrative judge for the New York County Supreme Court Criminal   
   Term notified the parties in an email Friday saying the reassignment will   
   “best serve the needs of the Court.”   
      
   “The Honorable Juan M. Merchan, Acting Supreme Court Justice, who is   
   assigned to this matter, is engaged to preside over a six-defendant trial   
   that is scheduled to commence on September 16, 2024 and expected to last   
   at least three months,” Judge Ellen Biben wrote in the email.   
      
   Bannon’s legal team learned on Friday about the move, a source familiar   
   with the matter told CNN. His criminal case is now assigned to Judge April   
   Newbauer. Bannon has a scheduled appearance before her set for July 23. By   
   then, he will be weeks into serving his sentence at a low-security federal   
   prison in Danbury, Connecticut, unless the Supreme Court intervenes before   
   Monday.   
      
   Merchan had presided over Bannon’s case since his arraignment in September   
   2022. Before it was delayed to the fall, Bannon had been scheduled to go   
   on trial in Merchan’s courtroom in May – when the judge had his hands full   
   with Trump’s seven-week trial.   
      
   Bannon is accused of defrauding donors in a fundraising effort branded the   
   “We Build the Wall” campaign for a border wall between the US and Mexico.   
   Bannon pleaded not guilty in 2022 to the state charges that include money   
   laundering, conspiracy and fraud related to an alleged online scheme.   
      
   As CNN previously reported, the state charges are based on the same   
   conduct Bannon was charged with by federal prosecutors in 2020 that   
   alleged he and three others had defrauded donors in the border wall   
   effort, which raised more than $15 million. He was later pardoned by   
   Trump.   
      
   However, presidential pardons do not apply to state investigations.   
      
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