Steve Bannon, a former chief strategist for Donald Trump, was sentenced to four months in prison on Friday after he was convicted of contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena related to a US House of Representatives investigation into the January 6 insurrection.
Before Friday’s sentencing, the US federal judge said Bannon had expressed no remorse over his actions relating to the Capitol riot.
He was also ordered to pay a $6,500 fine.
Bannon was convicted in July on two counts of contempt of Congress: one for refusing to appear in a deposition and another for refusing to provide documents.
Prosecutors accused Bannon of pursuing a “bad faith strategy” by seeking to delay the proceedings. The former Trump adviser has yet to provide testimony or documents to the House committee, prosecutors wrote.
Bannon’s lawyers said he was bound by executive privilege. That argument was rejected by both the House committee and the judge overseeing the case, as Bannon was sacked as chief White House strategist by Mr Trump in 2017 and was a private citizen when he consulted with the former president before the assault.
Mr Navarro was charged with contempt of Congress after failing to comply with the January 6 committee’s subpoena. He faces a trial start date of November 17.
