The United States Department of Justice has asked a federal judge on Monday to sentence former adviser to President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, to six months behind bars, considering that he carried out a “bad faith strategy of defiance and contempt” against the congressional commission investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
Bannon, an influential far-right political figure, was convicted in July on two counts of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena.
Each charge is punishable by 30 days to a year in prison and a fine of between $100 and $100,000. He is scheduled to be sentenced before District Judge Carl Nichols on Friday morning.
Prosecutors told Nichols in their sentencing recommendation Monday that Bannon’s actions, including his refusal to date to present “a single document” to the congressional committee, led them to recommend a prison sentence in part top of the guideline range.
They also urged the judge to impose the maximum fine of $200,000, which they said was based on Bannon’s “insistence on paying the maximum fine rather than cooperating with the routine pre-sentence Probation Office financial investigation.”
“Throughout the pending case, the defendant has exploited his notoriety – through press conferences in court and his War Room podcast – to show the public the source of his bad faith refusal to comply with the subpoena. of the committee: a total disregard for government process and the law,” prosecutors wrote in their filing.
Information of: Israel News
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