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In a court filing Monday, federal prosecutors wrote that Bannon should receive “the top end of the Sentencing Guidelines' range,” due to his “sustained, bad-faith contempt of Congress” and “based on his insistence on paying the maximum fine rather than cooperate with the Probation Office’s routine pre-sentencing financial investigation,“CNN reports.
He is set to be sentenced on Friday.
Steve Bannon (left) and former President Donald Trump.Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty; JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty
He has maintained that the indictment was “all noise,” while his legal team argued that he didn’t ignore the subpoena, but rather that he believed he was engaged in talks with the committee over Trump’s claims of executive privilege as the deadlines passed.
The indictment came after Bannon and the nonprofit engaged in “a year-long fundraising scheme in which they defrauded thousands of donors across the country out of more than $15 million to line their own pockets, and then laundered the proceeds to further advance and conceal the fraud,” the New York attorney general’s office alleged in a statement.
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A New York State Supreme Court grand jury indictment charged Bannon and We Build the Wall with two counts of money laundering in the second degree, two counts of conspiracy in the fourth degree, one count of scheme to defraud in the first degree, and one count of conspiracy in the fifth degree.
source: people.com
