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Brian Kolfage leaves court after being sentenced for defrauding donors to the "We Build the Wall" effort, Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in New York. The co-founder of a fundraising group linked to Steve Bannon that promised to help Donald Trump construct a wall along the southern U.S. border has been sentenced to four years and three months in prison. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

‘We Build The Wall’ founder Brian Kolfage gets four-plus years in prison

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

(Image courtesy of We Build the Wall)

Keno Vasquez, Texas judge, orders We Build the Wall not to build

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

FILE - This Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019, file photo and provided by the National Butterfly Center shows what the center's director, Marianna Wright, says is land cleared in preparation to build a separation wall on the border of the United States and Mexico in in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. State District Judge Keno Vasquez on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, issued a temporary restraining order against We Build the Wall, which raised $25 million after promising to build its own private barrier. The the nonprofit National Butterfly Center, which is located near the site, filed the motion for the temporary restraining order. (Luciano Guerra/National Butterfly Center via AP, File)

Texas judge orders border wall fundraiser not to build

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Hotel apologizes after Trump group alleges discrimination

Associated Press

The "We The People Will Build the Wall" campaign has surpassed $20 million since it was created in December by Air Force veteran and triple amputee Brian Kolfage. (Associated Press)

WeBuildtheWall Inc. conservatives head to Texas to try to build their own border wall

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

In this Jan. 9, 2019, file photo, construction crews install new border wall sections seen from Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Conservatives head to Texas to try to build their own wall

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Wall donations refunded or shifted to non-profit effort

By CURT ANDERSON - Associated Press

In this Jan. 14, 2016 photo, U.S. Air Force Sr. Airman (retired) Brian Kolfage, speaks with the media during a 2016 groundbreaking ceremony for a new home he and his family were receiving through the Gary Sinise Foundation's RISE program at Sandestin, Fla. An online fundraiser started by Kolfage to pay for construction of President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall was up to millions of dollars Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018 bringing further attention to an issue that could lead to a government shutdown. (Devon Ravine/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP)

Not clear how US would get money from border wall fundraiser

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Jan. 14, 2016 photo, U.S. Air Force Sr. Airman (retired) Brian Kolfage, speaks with the media during a 2016 groundbreaking ceremony for a new home he and his family were receiving through the Gary Sinise Foundation's RISE program at Sandestin, Fla. An online fundraiser started by Kolfage to pay for construction of President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall was up to millions of dollars Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018 bringing further attention to an issue that could lead to a government shutdown. (Devon Ravine/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP)

Viral campaign to fund Trump’s border wall led by veteran behind network of fake news sites

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE--In this AprIl 1, 2015, file photo, retired Air Force Airman Brian Kolfage, right, gives a piece of cheese to his one-year-old daughter Paris Kolfage as his wife Ashley Kolfage looks on at their recently rented home in Sandestin, Fla. Kolfage, a triple-amputee who lost his limbs serving in Iraq in the U.S. Air Force, started a GoFundMe page to help fund construction of President Donald Trump's border wall has already raised millions of dollars.(Nick Tomecek/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP, file)

Veteran draws millions in donations for Trump’s border wall

By TERRY TANG - Associated Press