DOJ recommends a six month jail sentence and $200,000 fine for Steve BANNON

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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]

1. It should be a helluva lot more.

[gab13by13]

2. I bet it will end up being less than that.

Can't keep him away from his pod cast where he is still inciting the insurrection.

[EYESORE 9001]

3. Time AND money

[grantcart]

21. This is for the contempt charges,he still has to face trial for state fraud charges

(which he was convicted of in federal court)

[malaise]

4. Lock him up RFN!

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31. Bannon is set to be sentenced on Friday at the D.C. courthouse by federal judge Carl Nichols at 9am.

Bannon is set to be sentenced on Friday at the D.C. courthouse by federal judge Carl Nichols at 9 a.m. His lawyers are expected to submit their own sentencing memo Monday before noon.

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]

5. I hope he gets it.

[SergeStorms]

6. You're shitting me.

Why not just slap his hand and make him promise to be good from now on?

Un-fucking real.

[2naSalit]

7. Not long enough.

Should be 24 months.

[GreenWave]

8. Make him stop double shirting.

[live love laugh]

9. That's nothing.

[Duppers]

10. Indeed!

For what he's done.

[flor-de-jasmim]

11. 200K for EACH DAY he was not in compliance would be fairer.

As for the jail term - I don't know, but it should be without any access to social media of any kind.

[intheflow]

12. This is a slap on the wrist.

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]

14. Each Count Gets A Max Sentence Of...

Up to one year and $100k. So, they asked for the max financial penalty. As it’s a misdemeanor, and his first offense, he’s not likely to have gotten the max time allowed. So, they asked for what they think they can get.

[grantcart]

18. First offense?

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]

23. He Was Charged, Yes...

But tRump pardoned him BEFORE he went to trial. He was arrested in August 2020, tRump pardoned him in December, before leaving office. He’d still be in the clink for that, if he’d been convicted of stealing $25 million.

While it’s true NY has charged him, that case hasn’t gone to trial. So, this misdemeanor is his first offense.

[malaise]

27. Isn't he about to face state charges for that fraud case?

[grantcart]

28. The acceptance of the pardon is an admission of guilt on that charge

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]

38. Imputation Of Guilt Is Not The Same As Conviction

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In a court of law. Nixon was preemptively pardoned for any for any crimes he MAY have committed, but that doesn’t 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, doesn’t MEAN anything.

I’m NOT arguing that he doesn’t 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 wouldn’t get that, without seriously pissing off the judge.

[KPN]

24. Which means he won't get even what they asked for typically in these cases that have actually

gone to sentencing for the tfg cabal.

[Turbineguy]

13. What, to protect the other prisoners?

[YoshidaYui]

15. how about giving A LIFE SENTENCE

TO Donald Trump, DOJ!!

[chriscan64]

16. Arayan Brotherhood probably forming welcoming committee

and protection detail.

[jaxexpat]

17. But wait....

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]

19. Do we ever stop playing nice? Do we ever stop caring about thier feelings? Just once, stop.

It should 18-months and $250,000.

[Seinan Sensei]

20. Pity the fool

who has to be his cell-mate
Ugh.
Nasty.

[Rebl2]

22. What a joke

Another tap on the wrist for a horrible right wing tfg person. Should have been longer time in prison and MUCH larger fine.

[KPN]

25. We need a progressive justice sentencing system. The more privilege and money the defendent has,

the greater the penalty. But no, here in the good old USA we have the reverse.

[Fiendish Thingy]

26. Well, the max is a year.

Hopefully his new state charges will add to his prison time.

[Jakes Progress]

29. That will come to $100 and a week at home.

[kimbutgar]

30. Should be 30 months and $500,000 fine

It would be great for him to be off the media and in jail until after the 2024 election.

[Paladin]

32. I'm gratified he got even this much punishment.

Given how things have been going, I wouldn't have been surprised if he'd gotten a lesser penalty.

[former9thward]

36. He has not been sentenced.

This was just a recommendation.

[ffr]

33. That's a win for Steve Bannon!

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]

34. Way too light!

10 years feels closer to correct?

[Ford_Prefect]

35. The fine and the time seem to be the maximum under the the law.

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

Prosecutors want Bannon to be sentenced to six months

“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 Office’s 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 Committee’s subpoena and its authority, the Defendant exacerbated that assault.”

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

37. Lock him up!!!!!

[Codifer]

39. Tommy Chong

got 9 months for selling a fricken BONG!

Not justice.... unless the 6 months is in a septic tank.