Breaking: Steve Bannon – former President Donald Trump's chief White House strategist and campaign CEO – sentenced to four months in prison for criminal contempt of Congress.
– Steve Bannon – former President Donald Trump's chief White House strategist and campaign CEO – was sentenced to four months in prison on Friday after a jury convicted him on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He must also pay $6,500 in financial penalties.
The judge agreed with Bannon's legal team that Bannon should be released and his prison time be delayed until the appeal process is resolved. During the July trial, prosecutors told the jury that Bannon thought he was"above the law" and"thumbed his nose" at congressional demands, while Bannon himself did not testify and his legal team called no witnesses.
"The Defendant attempted to leverage the information he had unlawfully withheld from the Committee to engineer dismissal of his criminal prosecution," prosecutors wrote earlier this week."The factual record in this case is replete with proof that with respect to the Committee's subpoena, the Defendant consistently acted in bad faith and with the purpose of frustrating the Committee's work.
"The facts of this case show that Mr. Bannon's conduct was based on his good-faith reliance on his lawyer's advice," his legal team wrote earlier this week,"Based upon clear authority, Mr. Costello provided legal advice to Mr. Bannon. Mr. Costello provided legal justifications for Mr. Bannon's position to the Select Committee and received responses back from Select Committee attorneys. Mr. Costello provided advice to Mr. Bannon, and Mr. Bannon acted on that advice.
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