Jury finds former Trump adviser guilty on two counts of criminal contempt for refusing to appear before House committee
Steve Bannon, the former top strategist to
“Bannon had an obligation to appear before the House select committee to give testimony and provide documents,” said the US attorney for the District of Columbia, Matthew Graves. “His refusal to do so was deliberate and now a jury has found he must pay the consequences.” Bannon’s legal team declined to present evidence in defense after Nichols, saying he was bound by the controlling case law, excluded their main arguments. The case turned on whether Bannon was in “willful” defiance of the select committee’s subpoena.
In closing arguments for the defense, Bannon’s attorney Evan Corcoran suggested the select committee’s subpoena was illegitimate since the signature of the panel’s chair, Bennie Thompson, appeared suspect. He also argued that the subpoena deadlines were “placeholders” that could be negotiated. That line of argument also never seemed particularly persuasive after it was revealed that despite seemingly offering to cooperate with the select committee, and receiving a new letter from the panel seeking documents, Bannon is understood to have turned over nothing.
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