Conservative strategist Steve Bannon has pleaded guilty to a fraud charge related to duping donors who gave money to a private effort to build a wall along the U.S. southern border.

The 71-year-old reached a plea agreement to avoid jail time related to a scheme to build a wall along the U.S. southern border.

Manhattan state prosecutors had accused the former Trump adviser of defrauding donors who gave to a nonprofit supporting a wall on the southern U.S. border