The Department of Justice (DOJ) proposed that former Trump administration adviser Steve Bannon should serve six months in jail and pay $200,000 for defying a subpoena by the House Jan. 6 committee.
A jury in July found Bannon guilty on two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify and providing documents to the Jan. 6 committee. His sentencing date is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 21.
In a court filing on Monday, the DOJ wrote that Bannon engaged in “bad-faith contempt of Congress” after the subpoenas were issued.
“The defendant should be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment—the top end of the Sentencing Guidelines’ range—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 DOJ wrote in court papers submitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia….