Mon Oct 17, 2022 – 7:45 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – In a rare break with historical precedent, the Department of Justice asked a federal judge on Monday to sentence former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon to six months in prison and a fine of $200,000 for contempt of Congress.
Bannon’s sentencing is scheduled for Friday, exactly a year after he was held in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena issued by the Democrat-led House committee investigating the events of January 6. Bannon had pleaded not guilty.
The DOJ hadn’t prosecuted someone for contempt of Congress since 1983, though Congress has found several political figures, including Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder and IRS official Lois Lerner, in contempt in recent years.
“When Democrats Eric Holder and Lois Lerner defied congressional subpoenas, @DOJ did nothing,” remarked representative Andy Biggs on Twitter after the DOJ’s sentencing request. “The @DOJ has become politicized and is no longer serving justice in good faith.”
Prosecutors said that Bannon “flouted the Committee’s authority and ignored the subpoena’s demands” in a sentencing memorandum filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
“To this day the Defendant has not
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