Steve Bannon's criminal trial will be postponed until next year after prosecutors introduced additional evidence in his fraud case. The former White House chief strategist, who served a four-month prison sentence this year for contempt of Congress,

Manhattan prosecutors brought the case against Bannon after Donald Trump pardoned him in a similar federal prosecution that was in its early stages.

Steven Bannon's trial on fraud charges relating to the border wall at the U.S.-Mexico border is now postponed until February, a judge ruled this week. On Monday, Bannon, a former White House chief strategist during President-elect Donald Trump's first administration,

The Trump ally and former White House advisor was scheduled to stand trial on money laundering charges in December.

A judge Tuesday set Feb. 25 as the start of Bannon's trial on charges related to alleged money laundering, conspiracy and a scheme to defraud. The case stems from Bannon's alleged role in an organization that raised millions on the promise — during Trump's first term in office — that they would privately build a wall along the U.

Trump's former adviser had wanted his trial on conspiracy, fraud and money laundering charges moved into the new year.

Bannon, 70, had been set to stand trial beginning Dec. 9, but state Supreme Court Judge April Newbauer moved the date to Feb. 25 in a hearing Monday morning. The case against Bannon began in late 2020,