The Justice Department is seeking a six-month prison sentence and $200,000 fine for ex-President Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress.
The Justice Department is seeking a six-month prison sentence and $200,000 fine for ex-President Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress ’s former adviser Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress.
‘For his sustained, bad-faith contempt of Congress, the Defendant should be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment – the top end of the Sentencing Guidelines’ range,’ prosecutors stated in the filing. A jury over the summer found Steve Bannon guilty of willfully defying a subpoena from the January 6 committee from the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot.
The former White House strategist tried to stop the criminal case from proceeding by offering a belated January 6 testimony if Congress pushed the Justice Department to drop charges against him.
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