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Trump's former top adviser is sentenced to 4 months in prison, here's the reason

2022-10-21 18:21:17Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Trump's former top adviser is sentenced to 4 months in prison, here's
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One of Donald Trump's former top advisers, Steve Bannon, was sentenced this Friday to 4 months in federal prison and a $6,500 fine. He has been found guilty of criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena issued by a select committee of the House of Representatives on January 6, last year.

The Guardian reports that the sentence, suspended pending appeal, makes Bannon the first person to be jailed for contempt of Congress in more than half a century and sets a strict standard for future contempt cases referred to the justice department by the committee. selectman investigating the attack on the Capitol.

The sentence handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols in Washington was lighter than recommended by prosecutors, who sought six months in prison and a maximum $200,000 fine because Bannon refused to cooperate with preliminary investigations by court officials.

Bannon, 68, had asked the court for relief and asked in court filings that his sentence either be stayed pending an appeal his lawyers filed in D.C. Circuit Court on Thursday or that his term of solitary confinement be reduced in home.

But Nichols denied Bannon's claims, saying he agreed with the Justice Department about the seriousness of his offense and noting that he had shown no remorse and had yet to show any intent to comply with the subpoena.

The select committee had sought Bannon's cooperation after identifying him early in the investigation as a key player in the run-up to the Capitol attack who appeared to have prior knowledge of Trump's efforts to block the certification of Joe Biden's Jan. 6 election victory. .

Close contacts with Trump in the days and hours before the Capitol attack made Bannon among the first targets of the investigation, and his refusal to comply with the subpoena galvanized the panel's determination to make an example of him with a contempt citation. .


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