Bannon is the eighth (8th!) Trump ally to receive prison time.
On Thursday, a federal judge ordered Bannon to surrender to authorities by July 1 to begin a four-month prison sentence for defying a subpoena from Congress to testify about January 6. Bannon was actually sentenced all the way back in October 2022 but was allowed to remain free pending appeal; last month, a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court upheld his guilty conviction. Following that ruling, Judge Carl Nichols said the adviser to the ex-president could no longer delay his sentence.
” Meanwhile, as the Times notes, this is not the only legal issue on Bannon’s plate: A couple of months after he was found guilty of contempt of Congress in Washington, state prosecutors in Manhattan accused him of misusing money he helped raise for a group backing Mr. Trump’s border wall. In his final hours in office in 2021, Mr. Trump pardoned Mr. Bannon in a separate federal case that focused on similar accusations. Mr.
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