Federal Judge Carl Nichols ordered Steve Bannon, who was an ideological advisor to former US President Donald Trumpreport to prison on July 1 to serve his four-month prison sentence for contempt of the congressional committee investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Bannon was sentenced in October 2022 to a short prison sentence and a fine of $6,500.. However, Nichols clarified at the time that Bannon would not have to go to prison until the conclusion of any appeal proceedings that his legal team might present.
Last May, a Washington DC appeals court unanimously rejected several of the appeals presented by Bannon and Prosecutors immediately asked Judge Nichols to order the former Trump adviser to be imprisoned, according to the US network. cnn.
Judge Nichols noted that, once the Justice Department rejected Bannon’s appeals – an issue for which he gave the green light to the suspension of his sentence -, there are no arguments to continue postponing the sentence. Bannon’s defense had already pointed out days ago that the magistrate did not have the authority to send him to prison without having exhausted all avenues of appeal. “There is no basis to consider removing the suspension of the sentence pending appeal until the appeal process has run its course,” Bannon’s legal team had previously stated.
The statement of charges presented by the Prosecutor’s Office against Bannon more than a year and a half ago accused Trump’s former advisor of “exacerbating” with his refusal to appear the spirit of aggression against the rule of law that the January 6 insurrection represented. Judge Nichols noted that the sentence was intended to “deter others from committing similar crimes,” the news agency reported. EuropaPress.
Donald Trump was found guilty of falsifying documents to try to cover up a sex scandal
The former president and candidate to occupy the White House, donald trump, was found guilty in a trial that was taking place in the state of New York. The court’s decision could shake up next November’s elections, in addition to being the first criminal trial against a former president of the United States. Trump was convicted of falsifying documents to try to cover up a sex scandal in the final stretch of his 2016 White House campaign.
In total, he was found guilty of 34 charges for alleged falsification of business records within a scheme in which he would have tried to hide the payment of $130,000 to former porn actress ‘Stormy Daniels’ to buy her silence.
