The prime committee subpoenaed Bannon successful September 2021 arsenic it sought grounds from adjacent Trump aides progressive successful efforts to assistance him subvert the 2020 election. | Nathan Howard/AP
A national justice has sentenced longtime Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon to 4 months successful jailhouse for defying a subpoena from lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 onslaught connected the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. He volition besides beryllium forced to wage a $6,500 fine.
U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, said Bannon inappropriately defied the prime committee connected a substance of important nationalist interest, and adjacent aft roadblocks to his grounds had been removed. A assemblage had convicted Bannon successful July connected 2 charges of contempt of Congress — 1 for refusing to attest to the Jan. 6 prime committee, different for refusing to supply applicable documents to the panel.
Nichols opted to let Bannon to enactment retired of jailhouse pending appeal, which could propulsion the contented good into adjacent year.
The prime committee subpoenaed Bannon successful September 2021 arsenic it sought grounds from adjacent Trump aides progressive successful efforts to assistance him subvert the 2020 election. Prosecutors charged him successful November 2021, 3 weeks aft the House voted to clasp him successful contempt.
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