Trump ally Steve Bannon pleads not responsible in case linked to Jan. 6 probe

Every depend of contempt of Congress is a misdemeanor punishable by as much as one yr in jail and a most advantageous of $100,000.

Bannon entered a plea of not responsible on each counts within the indictment, in response to a signed courtroom submitting asking Choose Carl Nichols to waive a proper arraignment, which was scheduled as a part of a listening to set for Thursday morning.

“He and we simply felt there is no such thing as a purpose to make the Courtroom undergo the formality of an arraignment,” stated David Schoen, Bannon’s lawyer, in an e mail to CNBC. 

Bannon “has the indictment, has learn it, and his plea just isn’t responsible all as mirrored within the pleading that was filed,” Schoen wrote, including that the transfer would “assist make the method extra environment friendly.”

Bannon was a senior White Home advisor through the first seven months of Trump’s single time period in workplace. He was fired by Trump years earlier than the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6 invasion.

However in October, Bannon’s lawyer informed the Home choose committee that Bannon wouldn’t adjust to its subpoena as a result of Trump’s counsel had instructed him to not produce any paperwork or testimony “regarding privileged materials.”

Committee chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., rejected the reference to govt privilege, the doctrine that enables some govt department officers to maintain some communications confidential, as an argument for noncompliance with a congressional subpoena.

Bannon in 2020 had been arrested on expenses of allegedly deceptive donors a few supposed effort to privately fund development of a wall on the border with Mexico. Trump pardoned Bannon simply earlier than Biden took over as president.