Steve Bannon will be sentenced today for criminal contempt of Congress after refusing to comply with the Jan. 6 panel. Prosecutors are seeking a penalty of 6 months in jail and a fine of $200,000.
David Dee Delgado/Getty ImagesSteve Bannon, former adviser to former President Donald Trump, on Sept. 8, 2022 in New York City.Former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon heads to a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., Friday, where he'll be sentenced for criminal contempt of Congress.
Federal prosecutors are asking U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols to throw the book at Bannon. They're seeking what they describe as a"severe" penalty: six months in jail and a fine of $200,000. In court papers earlier this week, they said Bannon pursued"a bad faith strategy of defiance and contempt." He called House Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.,"gutless" and said the panel is conducting a"show trial." Bannon used his podcast, which traffics in conspiracy theories, to target people he considered his political enemies.Bannon refused to turn over even a single piece of paper to the Jan. 6 committee, and he also refused to cooperate with the probation office in advance of his sentencing, prosecutor J.P. Cooney wrote.
Things didn't turn out that way. Bannon put on no defense during his trial in July and a jury took fewer than three hours to convict him.Bannon's lawyers say a sentence that involves incarceration would be wrong, because he didn't believe he was breaking the law. Rather, they say, Bannon was following advice from his previous attorney.
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