An ex-associate of Steve Bannon was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in prison for ripping off donors of a US-Mexico border wall fundraising campaign — and blowing the cash on lavish personal expenses.

Brian Kolfage, 41, embezzled more than $350,000 in donor funds to the “We Build the Wall” campaign that he spent on boat payments, cosmetic procedures and jewelry, federal prosecutors said.

Kolfage — an Air Force veteran who lost his legs and his right hand in a 2004 rocket attack in Iraq — previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud related to the border wall campaign. 

A co-defendant, financier Andrew Badolato, 58, also a Bannon associate, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to the same charge.

At his sentencing in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, Kolfage told the judge he was “remorseful, disgusted, humiliated.”

“I made a promise not to personally benefit and I broke that promise,” he said.

His attorneys had suggested that he be sentenced to home detention because of his medical needs.

But Judge Analisa Torres handed down a 51-month penalty, saying Kolfage and Badolato’s fraud “went well beyond ripping off individual donors.”

“They hurt us all by eroding the public’s faith in the political process,” Torres said.

Kolfage started the “We Build The Wall” campaign on GoFundMe in December 2018 before spinning it out as its own nonprofit a month later.

The drive eventually took in more than $25 million, ostensibly for the purpose of building a wall across the US-Mexico border, a key campaign promise of former President Donald Trump.

Though the group did start building portions of the wall in Texas and New Mexico, US Attorney Damian Williams says the two men “stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to line their own pockets.” 

They did this by using fake invoices, sham contracts and shadowy bank accounts that they controlled to pay themselves out.

In the end, Kolfage’s sentence fell squarely in line with what prosecutors asked for. Badolato, on the other hand, was sentenced to 10 fewer months than the government requested.

Bannon served as chairman of “We Build The Wall.” The political strategist and former Breitbart head was CEO of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign before working as his chief strategist in the White House for seven months.

Trump pardoned Bannon on his way out of the White House in January 2021, but the pardon only covers alleged federal crimes. Bannon still has to answer to state charges brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over his involvement in the fundraiser. 

A third Bannon associate, Timothy Shea, was convicted in October for his involvement in the border scheme. He will be sentenced in June.

Shea has been the only one of the four defendants to face a jury. His first trial ended in a mistrial last June after 11 jurors wrote a note to Torres informing her that a 12th juror called them “liberals” and accused them of facilitating a “government witch hunt,” according to The New York Times.

Kolfage, Badolato, Bannon, Shea were indicted on federal charges back in 2020.

In January, a skeptical Manhattan Supreme Court judge questioned whether Bannon was ghosting his lawyers in an attempt to draw out the case, after his attorney claimed that they were barely on speaking terms.

With Post wires