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State Prosecutors requested that Steve Bannon, former senior advisor to former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), be sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of Congress and pay a fine of $200,000.
“For his sustained, bad-faith contempt of Congress, the Defendant should be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment (…)and fined $200,000, based on his insistence on paying the maximum fine rather than cooperate with the Probation Office’s routine pre-sentencing financial investigation,” the prosecution notes in its request, local media published Monday.
Last July, Bannon was found guilty by a federal court in D.C. for refusing to appear in court looking into the Capitol assault and for refusing to provide documents. The sentence is scheduled to be released next Friday.
So although he freely answered questions about his family, professional life, personal background and health, he refused to disclose his financial records, insisting instead that he is willing and able to pay any fine imposed, including the maximum fine for each count.
