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Steve Bannon should be jailed for six months and fined $200,000 for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, federal prosecutors argued in a sentencing memorandum filed Monday.
In a scathing document filed in D.C. federal court, the Justice Department criticized the longstanding all of Donald Trump for his “sustained, bad-faith contempt of Congress” which has “exacerbated” the assault on the Capitol. The government added that it would seek the harshest punishment available for Bannon after he was found guilty of two criminal counts of contempt of Congress in July for refusing to testify or hand over documents to the Jan. 6 investigators.
“To this day, he continues to unlawfully withhold documents and testimony that stand to help the Committee’s authorized investigation to get to the bottom of what led to January 6 and ascertain what steps must be taken to ensure that it never happens again,” the DOJ wrote in the filing. “That cannot be tolerated.”