WASHINGTON — Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon is needed Report to jail on Monday after the Supreme Court rejected a last-minute bid to overturn his four-month prison sentence for ignoring subpoenas from a House committee on Jan. 6.
Bannon was convicted Nearly two years ago, in July 2022, he was indicted in Washington on two counts of contempt of Congress and was convicted In October 2022, he was sentenced to four months in prison. US District Judge Carl Nichols suspended his sentence while he appealed his conviction. was rejected in May. After Nichols Bannon ordered to go to prison until July 1, said that there is no reason to continue the suspension of the sentence. Then the appeals court Bannon’s appeal was rejected from the decision leaving only the Supreme Court to help him escape from prison.
It was Bannon It is held in contempt of Congress after denying a January 6 committee request for documents and testimony as part of an investigation into former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and stay in office ahead of the January 6 attack on the Capitol. , 2021. Bannon’s attorney told the Supreme Court that he was relying on counsel’s advice and was waiting for the executive privilege issues to be resolved. But as federal prosecutors noted in their 2022 sentencing filing, there was no operational claim of executive privilege because Bannon was part of the Trump administration years ago, not during the period under investigation by the Jan. 6 committee.
Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro, who was sentenced to four months in federal prison on the same charges, is ending his sentence. he applied to prison in March.
Bannon, 70, has already been assigned an inmate number by the federal Bureau of Prisons: 05635-509.
Daniel Barnes contributed.