Prosecutors have asked the judge in his case to impose a hefty sentence of six months in jail.
Steve Bannon was found guilty on all contempt charges after defying subpoenas from the Jan. 6 House committee. Mike Marza has the breaking details on the verdict.Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday after being convicted of defying a subpoena from the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Prosecutors have asked the judge in his case to impose a hefty sentence of six months in jail, while Bannon's lawyers have argued their client deserves a sentence of probation. The statutes for contempt of Congress each carry a minimum sentence of 30 days behind bars, but Bannon's lawyers argue the judge could just sentence him to probation and not send him to jail.
Prosecutors argued Bannon, 68, deserved the longer sentence because he had pursued a "bad faith strategy" and his public statements disparaging the committee itself made it clear he wanted to undermine their effort to get to the bottom of the violent attack and keep anything like it from happening again.
Many other former White House aides have testified with only their own counsel. Bannon had been fired from the White House in 2017 and was a private citizen when he was consulting with the then-president before the riot.
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