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Within days of what originally had been scheduled as the trial date in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for wounded warrior Brian Kolfage of Miramar Beach on wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy charges, mid-November has been targeted as a potential new start date. Kolfage, a former Air Force airman and wounded warrior who lost both legs and an arm in a 2004 rocket attack in Iraq, faces single counts of each charge in connection with the Florida nonprofit organization he founded in 2019 to collect donations for privately funded construction of sections of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. ....
The Tuesday indictment charges Kolfage with single counts of filing a false tax return and wire fraud connected to the electronic filing of that return. Kolfage is a former Air Force airman who lost both legs and an arm in a 2004 rocket attack in Iraq and subsequently got involved in conservative causes, including an effort that is part of the Tuesday indictment. More specifically, the indictment alleges that during the 2019 tax year, Kolfage received hundreds of thousands of dollars from multiple organizations including We Build The Wall, Inc., the nonprofit organization he founded in 2019 to collect donations for privately funded sections of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and failed to report that income to the Internal Revenue Service. ....
A digital billboard on Nine Mile Road recently has been flashing a message from the FBI announcing that the agency is seeking information on the violence at the Capitol. The billboard announces that tips can be reported to the FBI by calling 1-800-CALL-FBI or visiting fbi.gov/USCAPITOL. FBI headquarters has placed a general ad with a billboard advertising company, and so those companies run billboards or place advertisements on electronic billboards all over the country, said FBI spokeswoman Amanda Videll. Wherever there is space, they just run them on whatever billboards they manage. It might run on that billboard as long as there is space and the companies are willing to do that. But they are placed at random.” ....