These 5 Sarasota County residents connected to Trump have faced investigations

Former president Donald Trump will become the first president to be criminally indicted for allegedly stashing more than 300 classified documents after leaving the White House in January 2021.

Those connected to Trump have faced their own court proceedings. What Sarasota County residents have been connected to the former president and also have faced their own investigations?

Michael Flynn

Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn bought a home in Englewood in 2021 and applied to join the Sarasota GOP executive committee in 2022.

He was convicted of lying to the FBI and was later pardoned by Trump. He also was involved in efforts to try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

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Doug Logan

Sarasota County resident and Cyber Ninja CEO Doug Logan has been a part of an investigation into those who pushed to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in 2020.

He faces a criminal probe after completing “audits” of ballots in Georgia, Michigan and Arizona elections to strengthen unproven claims of voter fraud during the election. Logan has been accused of tampering with voting machines in Michigan and breaching voting machines in Georgia following the 2020 election.

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Steve Bannon

Trump’s former White House chief strategist claimed to live on Casey Key and was one of four men that were charged for a $25 million fraudulent fundraising scam called “We Build the Wall.”

Although Bannon was charged along with three other men, he was pardoned by Trump for his alleged role in the scam. Since the pardon only covers federal charges, Bannon was later charged for his role by the state of New York and is scheduled to go to trial in the fall.

Andy Badolato

Sarasota County resident Badolato was sentenced to three years in prison in April for his role in the “We Build the Wall” border scam with Bannon.

The group, including Badolato, kept hundreds of thousands of dollars for personal use after promising that all of the money would be used for the wall.

In addition to the jail time, Badolato was ordered to forfeit $1.4 million and pay $2.9 million in restitution.

Joseph Hackett

In June, Hackett, a chiropractor from Sarasota, was a low-level member of the Oath Keepers, a far-right extremist group. He was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other charges during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack. Jan. 6 House Committee members concluded in a report that Trump plotted to overturn the 2020 results despite knowing he’d lost, sent an angry and armed mob to the Capitol and failed to respond to the violence as it unfolded on television.

Hackett's role in the insurrection included amassing guns and ammunition to stash in a Virginia hotel for a so-called “quick reaction force” that could be quickly shuttled to Washington, prosecutors said.

He attended an “unconventional warfare” training, and in the leadup to Jan. 6 he repeatedly warned other Oath Keepers about “leaks” and the need to secure their communications, and later changed his online screen names, authorities have said.

This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Trump arraignment: Sarasota Trump allies who faced investigations