Steve Bannon, former advisor to President Donald Trump, arrives at the federal courthouse to find out if or when a judge will order him to jail on June 6, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday ordered former Trump White House aide Steven Bannon to report to jail by July 1 to begin serving a four-month sentence for his criminal contempt of Congress conviction.
The order by Judge Carl Nichols came three weeks after federal prosecutors urged him to lift a stay on Bannon’s sentence pending an appeal of his conviction for failing to comply with a subpoena from a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
A federal appeals court panel in a unanimous ruling on May 10 upheld Bannon’s conviction in the case.
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