A federal jury found Peter Navarro, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress on Thursday following about five hours of deliberation.
Judge Amit P. Mehta for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia set sentencing for Jan. 12 in the case, which sprang out of Navarro’s refusal to cooperate with a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Navarro faces up to a year in prison for each count.
Throughout the case Navarro argued that he should be shielded from testifying due to executive privilege. Mehta, however, found no evidence that Trump invoked executive privilege and said before the trial that it couldn’t serve as a defense in the case.
