Federal judge sentences Steve Bannon to 4 months of imprisonment for contempt of Congress

As reported in this USA Today piece, “Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison Friday, three months after his conviction on contempt of Congress charges for defying a subpoena from the special House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack.” Here is a bit more:

The Justice Department had sought a six month prison term for Bannon and recommended that he pay a maximum fine of $200,000 for “his sustained, bad-faith.”… While Bannon initially refused to comply with the panel’s summons, citing a claim of executive privilege, prosecutors said Monday that the Trump operative’s actions were “aimed at undermining the Committee’s efforts to investigate an historic attack on government.”

Bannon’s attorneys argued that a sentence of probation was more appropriate. “The legal challenges advanced by Mr. Bannon were not meritless or frivolous and were aimed at protecting his constitutional rights,” attorney Evan Corcoran argued in court documents. “For these reasons, the fact that Mr. Bannon chose to put the Government to its burden at trial should not preclude him from receiving a reduction to his offense level based on acceptance of responsibility.”

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