Cosmetic surgery and super yachts: Inside the 'Build The Wall' scheme that led to Steve Bannon's arrest

Relaxed and brimming with bravado, Steve Bannon sat back in his seat, and smiled his wolfish grin at the camera. “We’re off the coast of Saint-Tropez in southern France, on the Mediterranean,” he said. “We’re on a million-dollar yacht – Brian Kolfage, he took all that money from ‘Build the Wall.'” He laughed, chummily slapping Mr Kolfage, triple-amputee Iraq veteran, on the shoulder. It was a joke, of course. Fast forward just over a year, and, prosecutors say, that joke cut close to the bone. Mr Bannon was arrested on Thursday - on a $28 million yacht, owned by a fugitive Chinese billionaire - and charged with taking the money from We Build the Wall, the crowdfunding group he headed. Mr Kolfage, 38, was also arrested at his home in Miramar Beach, Florida; so too were Andrew Badolato, 56, a venture capitalist from Sarasota, Florida; and Timothy Shea, 49, of Castle Rock, Colorado. The three men - Mr Kolfage, Mr Badolato and Mr Shea - were united by their admiration for President Donald Trump, whose election campaign was run from August 2016 by Mr Bannon.