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US urges six-month sentence for former Trump adviser Steve Bannon

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Steve Bannon faces the possibility of prison time for refusing to comply with a subpoena to testify before the congressional committee investigating last year's Capitol riot [File: J Scott Applewhite/AP Photo]

The US Department of Justice has asked a federal judge to sentence former President Donald Trump’s adviser Steve Bannon to six months in prison for defying a subpoena to testify before a congressional committee investigating the United States Capitol riot.

US prosecutors recommended the sentence on Monday, accusing Bannon of pursuing “a bad-faith strategy of defiance and contempt” and publicly disparaging the panel investigating the attack on January 6, 2021.

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