The US Justice Department said yesterday that Steve Bannon should serve six months in prison and pay a $200,000 (€203,000) fine for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.
The US Justice Department said yesterday that Steve Bannon should serve six months in prison and pay a $200,000 (€203,000) fine for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.
The longtime ally of former US president Donald Trump should get a hefty sentence because he “pursued a bad-faith strategy of defiance and contempt” and he publicly disparaged the committee itself, undermining the effort to get to the bottom of the violent attack and keep anything like it from happening again, federal attorneys wrote.
