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JUST IN: DOJ recommends a six month jail sentence and $200,000 fine for Steve BANNON for defying a Jan. 6 select committee subpoena
FlyingPiggy
(3,384 posts)gab13by13
(21,401 posts)Can't keep him away from his pod cast where he is still inciting the insurrection.
EYESORE 9001
(25,972 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)(which he was convicted of in federal court)
malaise
(269,157 posts)spanone
(135,870 posts)In their sentencing recommendation, prosecutors outline in detail Bannon and his attorneys' months-long campaign to resist cooperating with the Jan. 6 select committee's investigation of the assault on the Capitol.
"From the time he was initially subpoenaed, the Defendant has shown that his true reasons for total noncompliance have nothing to do with his purported respect for the Constitution, the rule of law, or executive privilege, and everything to do with his personal disdain for the members of Congress sitting on the Committee and their effort to investigate the attack on our country's peaceful transfer of power," they say. "[Bannon's] abject refusal to heed the Committee's subpoena, under the circumstances with which this country is confronted, could not be more serious."
They argue Bannon's last-minute offer on the eve of his trial claiming he was prepared to cooperate with the committee, was merely an attempt "to leverage the information he had unlawfully withheld from the Committee to engineer dismissal of his criminal prosecution."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-seeks-months-prison-200k-fine-steve-bannon/story?id=91620316
brer cat
(24,598 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Un-fucking real.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)Should be 24 months.
GreenWave
(6,766 posts)live love laugh
(13,128 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)For what he's done.
flor-de-jasmim
(2,125 posts)As for the jail term - I don't know, but it should be without any access to social media of any kind.
intheflow
(28,501 posts)What is $200K to Bannon? And six months is just enough time for MAGA to make him a persecuted hero but not enough time for him to reconsider his actions. Six months will only make him more resolute to wreck havoc on our country.
GB_RN
(2,373 posts)Up to one year and $100k. So, they asked for the max financial penalty. As its a misdemeanor, and his first offense, hes not likely to have gotten the max time allowed. So, they asked for what they think they can get.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)In 2020 he was convicted of Federal Fraud charges which he avoided because of a pardon, he is awaiting trial on state fraud charges.
GB_RN
(2,373 posts)But tRump pardoned him BEFORE he went to trial. He was arrested in August 2020, tRump pardoned him in December, before leaving office. Hed still be in the clink for that, if hed been convicted of stealing $25 million.
While its true NY has charged him, that case hasnt gone to trial. So, this misdemeanor is his first offense.
malaise
(269,157 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)This was settled as a matter of law when Sheriff Arpaio was pardoned before his trial and tried to get the charges expunged.
Pardoning eliminates the penalty but not the charge.
In your own link it cites that the acceptance of a pardon carries the acknowledgement of guilt.
GB_RN
(2,373 posts)Last edited Mon Oct 17, 2022, 10:31 PM - Edit history (2)
In a court of law. Nixon was preemptively pardoned for any for any crimes he MAY have committed, but that doesnt mean he was convicted. Same here. Bannon never went to court and received a guilty verdict, ergo, he was never convicted.
Just because someone was charged, doesnt MEAN anything.
Im NOT arguing that he doesnt deserve more time. But legally, the most he could get is 2 years. As a first CONVICTED offense - and a misdemeanor at that - he likely wouldnt get that, without seriously pissing off the judge.
KPN
(15,649 posts)gone to sentencing for the tfg cabal.
Turbineguy
(37,364 posts)YoshidaYui
(41,859 posts)TO Donald Trump, DOJ!!
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)and protection detail.
jaxexpat
(6,848 posts)In the dimension Bannon dwells in, 6 months is 60 years Earth time, but $200k is only $1.37.
Go figure. Bannon would dwell in a time confused, deflationary dimension.
Hotler
(11,445 posts)It should 18-months and $250,000.
Seinan Sensei
(366 posts)who has to be his cell-mate
Ugh.
Nasty.
Rebl2
(13,546 posts)Another tap on the wrist for a horrible right wing tfg person. Should have been longer time in prison and MUCH larger fine.
KPN
(15,649 posts)the greater the penalty. But no, here in the good old USA we have the reverse.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,655 posts)Hopefully his new state charges will add to his prison time.
Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)kimbutgar
(21,185 posts)It would be great for him to be off the media and in jail until after the 2024 election.
Paladin
(28,272 posts)Given how things have been going, I wouldn't have been surprised if he'd gotten a lesser penalty.
former9thward
(32,073 posts)This was just a recommendation.
ffr
(22,671 posts)No wonder he's seen smiling when he was arrested. The worst penalty for defying the subpoena are 10x better than what he's actually guilty of.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)10 years feels closer to correct?
Ford_Prefect
(7,918 posts)Minimum would be 1 month. Bannon did everything he could to incur the maximum fine including demanding it.
Full story in detail is at CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/politics/steve-bannon-sentencing/index.html
For his sustained, bad-faith contempt of Congress, the Defendant should be sentenced to six months imprisonment the top end of the Sentencing Guidelines range and fined $200,000 based on his insistence on paying the maximum fine rather than cooperate with the Probation Offices routine pre-sentencing financial investigation, prosecutors wrote in their court filing on Monday.
They said he did not fully comply with the probation office in their pre-sentencing investigation, writing that Bannon freely answered questions about his family, professional life, personal background, and health. But the Defendant refused to disclose his financial records, instead insisting that he is willing and able to pay any fine imposed, including the maximum fine on each count of conviction.
Prosecutors added: The rioters who overran the Capitol on January 6 did not just attack a building they assaulted the rule of law upon which this country was built and through which it endures. By flouting the Select Committees subpoena and its authority, the Defendant exacerbated that assault.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,183 posts)Codifer
(548 posts)got 9 months for selling a fricken BONG!
Not justice.... unless the 6 months is in a septic tank.