WASHINGTON — The Justice Department recommended a sentence of six months in prison and a $200,000 fine for Steve Bannon on charges that he defied a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Bannon, an ally of former President Donald Trump who served as a White House adviser, was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress in July after a weeklong trial. His sentencing hearing is set for Friday, where he faces a minimum sentence of one month but his attorneys plan to argue for a sentence of probation.
The DOJ argued in a filing Monday that Bannon’s “bad-faith” efforts to defy the Jan. 6 committee merited the maximum sentence under the guidelines for contempt of Congress.
