Steve Bannon: justice department urges six-month prison term in contempt case
The Guardian, US
Steve Bannon should be sentenced to six months in prison and a $200,000 fine for “his sustained, bad-faith contempt of Congress”, the justice department said in a legal filing on Monday.
Bannon, the former Donald Trump White House strategist, was found guiltyon two counts of criminal contempt of Congress in July for ignoring a subpoena from the US House committee investigating the January 6 attack.
Bannon faces up to a year in prison on each count on which he was found guilty. The punishment proposed Monday is at the “top end” of government sentencing guidelines and was needed because Bannon “consistently acted in bad faith and with the purpose of frustrating the committee’s work”, US justice department prosecutors wrote.They said Bannon had refused to cooperate with the committee in any way, except for instances in which he attempted a quid pro quo of exchanging information for dismissal of his criminal case.
