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Jury deliberates verdict in 'Nosotros Build The Wall' fraud trial

May 31, 2022 Updated: May 31, 2022 x:ten p.yard.

FILE - A U.S. government-built section of border wall snakes through the Sonoran Desert just west of the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, separating Mexico, left, and the United States, Dec. 9, 2020, in Douglas, Ariz. A prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments at a criminal trial, Tuesday, May 31, 2022, that there is overwhelming evidence that organizers of a "We Build The Wall" campaign to raise money for a wall along the U.S. southern border defrauded investors. — FILE - A U.S. authorities-built section of border wall snakes through the Sonoran Desert merely west of the San Bernardino National Wild fauna Refuge, separating United mexican states, left, and the U.s., Dec. 9, 2020, in Douglas, Ariz. A prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments at a criminal trial, Tuesday, May 31, 2022, that in that location is overwhelming evidence that organizers of a "We Build The Wall" campaign to raise coin for a wall along the U.South. southern edge defrauded investors. Matt York/AP

NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments at a criminal trial Tuesday that there is overwhelming evidence that organizers of a "We Build The Wall" campaign to enhance millions of dollars for a wall along the U.S. southern border defrauded investors by lying to them.

Banana U.Due south. Attorney Robert Sobelman urged Manhattan federal court jurors to deliver guilty verdicts on fraud and conspiracy charges against the lone defendant: Timothy Shea.

"You will speedily see that the evidence is overwhelming," the prosecutor said as he delivered a rebuttal after defense attorney John Meringolo told the jury that an amortization was the only fair verdict.

Jurors deliberated for a brusk time belatedly Tuesday without reaching a verdict. Their work resumes Wednesday morning.

Former presidential adviser Steve Bannon was once a defendant in the instance, merely ex-President Donald Trump pardoned him as he left office last year. 2 other defendants had pleaded guilty to charges and wait sentencing.

Meringolo insisted in his closing that there were multiple ways that jurors could conclude there was reasonable uncertainty and that an acquittal was fair.

"At that place are ii sides to every story," he said. "Their story has doubt and their story has reasonable incertitude."

As he had in his opening statement a calendar week earlier, Meringolo insisted that a company prosecutors say was created to carry out a fraud — Ranch Holding Management — was not the vanquish company the government claimed it was. And he said prosecutors were wrong to say his client didn't work.

"It wasn't a shell company. Tim worked," he said.

Sobelman and Assistant U.Southward. Attorney Nicolas Roos in an earlier closing argument attacked the motives of Shea, who owns an free energy drinkable company, Winning Energy, whose cans have featured a drawing superhero image of Trump and claim to contain "12 oz. of liberal tears."

They maintained that Shea, of Castle Rock, Colorado, and his sometime codefendants siphoned money from the fund, which raised over $25 million from thousands of donors after it was created in belatedly 2018.

"No one donates to a nonprofit thinking that the nonprofit is going to loan coin to an energy drinkable company," Sobelman said.

"They stole and looted from the organization," Roos said, citing hundreds of thousands of dollars that did not get to a stretch of several miles of wall that resulted from the fundraising effort.