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A former White House Aide and close confidant of Former President Donald Trump has been sentenced to four months in prison. The sentence was handed down by a Washington D.C. Federal Judge on October 21, 2022 for Bannon failing to comply with a congressional subpoena issued by Congress. The subpoena was in regard to the riot and attack on the US capital on January 6, 2021. In addition to the four month sentence, Steve Bannon was also fined $6,500 for his role.

In July, 2022, the U.S. House Committee assigned to investigate the January 6 riots issued a subpoena for Bannon to testify and to return confidential documents. Bannon refused to comply with the subpoena, by not testifying and not returning the requested documents. The Judge assigned to Bannon's case has expressed the severity of Bannon refusing to cooperate; calling the refusal a "quite serious offense".

Bannon has participated in the denial of election results and active insurrection from the start of Donald Trump's presidency. He is also the first of the Trump ally's to actually be convicted of crimes resulting from insurrection attempt. He will not be the last to face charges, nor will he likely be the last to actually face a conviction.

Earlier this year in September, Bannon requested a new trial. This was rejected. In response, the Assistant U.S. Attorney assigned tot he case, J.P. Cooney, argued before the court that Bannon should face the maximum penalty for his crimes. The state urged the judge to convict Bannon and sentence him to at least six months behind bars and $100,000 fine (per count of contempt of congress). The judge was not persuaded and eventually decided that the appropriate sentence would be between $1,000 and $9,500, and a prison sentence of four months. The Judge stated that her decision was in part based off her opinion of Bannon's "low risk of recidivism".

In defense of Steve Bannon, Bannon's lawyer talks of appealing the decision, saying Bannon "never got to tell his story". If Bannon chooses to appeal the conviction, he will have until November 15, 2022 to do so.

The case is U.S. v. Bannon, case number 1:21-cr-00670, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.