Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon Friday was found guilty of contempt of Congress, handing a victory to the Justice Department and the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, SİA informs via the Wall Street Journal.
After about three hours of deliberation, the federal jury delivered guilty verdicts on the two counts of contempt he faced for unlawfully defying a subpoena issued by the Jan. 6 panel, which was seeking both documents and testimony. Mr. Bannon will be sentenced at a hearing in October and faces a minimum sentence of 30 days and a maximum of one year in prison for each count.
The verdict could help congressional investigators obtain testimony from recalcitrant witnesses in the probe and future investigations. The outcome also gives the Justice Department a boost ahead of a similar contempt of Congress trial scheduled for November against former Trump adviser Peter Navarro, who like Mr. Bannon refused to cooperate with the Jan. 6 committee.
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