A federal choose on Thursday advised Stephen Ok. Bannon, a longtime adviser to former President Donald J. Trump, to give up by July 1 to start out serving a four-month jail time period imposed on him for disobeying a subpoena to provide testimony to the Home committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol.
After Mr. Bannon was sentenced in October 2022 on contempt of Congress costs, Choose Carl J. Nichols, who has overseen the case, allowed him to stay free whereas he appealed. Final month, nonetheless, Mr. Bannon misplaced the primary spherical of that problem as a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court docket in Washington determined that his responsible verdict on costs of ignoring the Home committee’s demand for his testimony was correct.
Legal professionals for Mr. Bannon have promised to ask the complete appeals court docket to rethink the panel’s ruling. Choose Nichols stated that Mr. Bannon must begin serving his sentence in lower than 4 weeks until the complete appeals court docket takes the case and points its personal ruling to pause the sentence from being enforced.
One other former aide to Mr. Trump is already serving a jail time period for refusing to participate within the Home committee’s wide-ranging investigation into Mr. Trump’s efforts to stay in energy after dropping the 2020 election.
In March, Peter Navarro, who as soon as labored as a commerce adviser to Mr. Trump, reported to federal jail in Miami to start serving his personal four-month jail stint after a jury discovered him responsible of contempt of Congress for ignoring one of many committee’s subpoenas.
Mr. Bannon’s authorized travails are prone to proceed after — and even throughout — his stint in jail.
A number of months after he was discovered responsible of contempt of Congress in Washington, state prosecutors in Manhattan accused him of misusing cash he helped increase for a gaggle backing Mr. Trump’s border wall. In his ultimate hours in workplace in 2021, Mr. Trump pardoned Mr. Bannon in a separate federal case that centered on related accusations.
Mr. Bannon’s fraud trial is scheduled to happen later this 12 months in the identical Manhattan courthouse the place Mr. Trump was lately convicted himself on costs of falsifying enterprise information to cowl up a intercourse scandal that threatened his 2016 run for the presidency.
