According to CNN, the judge levied a $ 6500 fine and sentenced former Trump advisor Steve Bannon to four months in prison for contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a summons issued by the House of Representatives Committee, which was looking into the January 6 storming of Congress.
A 200 000 dollar fine and six months in jail were the Ministry of Justice’s requests.
US Federal Judge Karl Nichols said on Friday that there is a minimum mandatory one -month prison for former Trump’s crime, Steve Bannon. According to Nichols, Bannon David Shwin’s attorney has failed in his attempts to convince the judge that there is no minimum standard for contempt.
This summer, the former Trump aide was found guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress: one for failing to appear before the inquiry committee on January 6 and the other for failing to provide the documents that the committee requested. The criteria for the issuance of decisions range from one to six months, as he further indicated.
On allegations of disrespecting Congress, Bannon’s incarceration, the former Trump adviser
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