Former US President Trump’s adviser Steve Bannon attends a hearing in Manhattan, New York, on January 12, 2023. He was accused of fraud in raising funds to support the construction of the US-Mexico border wall.
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Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Tuesday to order former Trump White House aide Steven Bannon to begin serving on his staff. Sentenced to four months in prison Contempt of Congress, citing recent appeals court decided to maintain his belief.
If the motion is approved, Bannon may soon be required to go to jail and serve time rRefusing to comply with a subpoena from a House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“The United States of America petitions the Court to revoke Defendant’s probation because it has no legal basis under that law,” prosecutors wrote in a filing in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
Bannon’s attorney, David Schoen, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the motion.
In July 2022, Bannon was convicted of two counts of criminal contempt of Congress.
Judge Carl Nichols, appointed to the District Court by the former President Donald TrumpBannon was later sentenced to four months in prison but allowed to remain free while he appeals.
In issuing the decision, Nichols wrote that Bannon’s appeal “raises a significant legal issue that could lead to a reversal or ordering of a new trial.”
But on Friday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit disagreed with Nichols’ assessment and ruled unanimously to uphold Bannon’s conviction.
The panel rejected an argument by Bannon’s attorneys that Bannon was not guilty of contempt because his lawyers advised him not to comply with the House subpoena. On January 6, the special committee asked him to provide testimony and documents related to the attack on the Capitol, which was carried out by a mob of Trump supporters.
After the ruling, Bannon’s attorney, Schon, said he would ask a panel of all judges from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear the appeal.
In a court filing on Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia told Nichols that because Bannon’s appeal was dismissed “on all grounds” … there are no longer “substantial legal issues that could result in a reversal or order to dismiss.” ”. A new trial. “
“Under the circumstances … probation must be revoked,” prosecutors wrote.
Federal district and appeals courts in Washington, D.C., rejected a similar request by another former Trump aide, Peter Navarro, to suspend his four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress, prosecutors wrote in a footnote.
Navarro is currently serving a minimum security sentence miami federal prison.
in April, Alan WeisselbergTrump, the longtime former finance chief of the Trump Organization, was sentenced to five months in prison after pleading guilty in a New York state court to perjury while testifying in Trump’s civil trade fraud case.
Weisselberg is currently serving his sentence on Rikers Island in New York City.
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