Today, Monday, US prosecutors requested a six-month prison sentence for Steve Bannon, the former adviser to Donald Trump who was convicted in July of contempt of court for refusing to testify in the investigation of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol Building.
A judge in Washington is expected to rule Friday in the 68-year-old Bannon case.
With the deadline to pronounce the verdict approaching, prosecutors have set the charges against Bannon as "defiance of the judiciary, bad faith and contempt", since he was summoned by the committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack.
Because he maintained this position, the prosecution requested "that he be sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment, which is the maximum penalty, and a fine of $200,000."
Steve Bannon is considered one of the architects of Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 US presidential election. Even after he was excluded from the White House in August 2017, he remained close to Trump and spoke to him the day before the attack on Capitol Hill.
In order to find out the nature of their conversations, the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee tasked with highlighting the role played by Donald Trump in this attack summoned Steve Bannon to testify and provide documents, but he refused, invoking the right of presidents to keep some conversations secret, which led to accusing him of “obstructing” the work of Congress.
During his trial in federal court in Washington in July, the jury found him guilty after less than three hours of deliberation.
On the other hand, the former adviser to Donald Trump is being pursued in the case of embezzling millions of dollars in donations to build a wall between the United States and Mexico.