A federal appeals court denied former Trump advisor Steve Bannon’s appeal of his conviction for contempt of Congress for defying a House subpoena from the House Jan. 6 Committee, paving the way for his four-month jail sentence to begin.
Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in jail for refusing to cooperate with a House subpoena.
The House Jan. 6 Committee, formed to investigate the Capitol insurrection following former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, subpoenaed Bannon in September 2021, though Bannon refused to comply.
Bannon was indicted In April 2022 by a federal grand jury in Washington D.C. on two counts of contempt of Congress, including for his failure to hand over documents to the House committee.
While prosecutors had pushed for a six-month sentence, Bannon was ultimately sentenced to four months and issued a $6,500 fine, and Bannon quickly appealed the ruling.
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