Lawyers for Steve Bannon urged a federal judge to sanction the Justice Department lawyers who prosecuted the former presidential adviser, arguing that the government’s invasive search of the private communications of one of Bannon’s lawyers amounted to misconduct.
Bannon’s lawyers asked the judge who presided over the former Trump adviser’s trial to revisit the matter, which surfaced last year. A jury in Washington convicted Bannon of contempt of Congress. Bannon has appealed the verdict. The issue raised in Wednesday’s court filing could help his attempt to overturn his conviction.
Robert Costello, who represented Bannon in the early stages of the investigation, accused the government of interfering in his attorney-client relationship with Bannon by obtaining his phone and email records using grand jury subpoenas.
