DOJ asks judge to sentence Steve Bannon to six months in prison, $200,000 fine for his conviction on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress.
Former President Donald Trump's longtime ally Steve Bannon arrives in Manhattan Supreme Court, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022.The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to sentence Steve Bannon, adviser to former President Donald Trump, to six months in prison and make him pay a $200,000 fine for his"From the moment that the Defendant, Stephen K.
Bannon is set to be sentenced on Friday at the D.C. courthouse by federal judge Carl Nichols at 9 a.m. "From the time he was initially subpoenaed, the Defendant has shown that his true reasons for total noncompliance have nothing to do with his purported respect for the Constitution, the rule of law, or executive privilege, and everything to do with his personal disdain for the members of Congress sitting on the Committee and their effort to investigate the attack on our country's peaceful transfer of power," they say.
In its filing, the department reveals that in July, after Bannon's attorneys failed in their final attempt to have the case dismissed, his lawyer Evan Corcoran contacted the Jan. 6 committee and said outright that Bannon would only to agree to cooperate with the committee if they urged DOJ to drop its charges.
"[Bannon's] statements prove that his contempt was not aimed at protecting executive privilege or the Constitution, rather it was aimed at undermining the Committee's efforts to investigate an historic attack on government," the filing says.
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