Former Trump White House aide Steve Bannon was ordered by a federal judge to report to prison on July 1 at a hearing on Thursday.
Bannon was found guilty in 2022 of two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify and provide documents to the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
He was sentenced to serve four month in jail but has delayed doing so using the appeals process.
However, on Thursday Judge Carl Nichols sided with federal prosecutors who urged him to lift a stay on Bannon’s sentence pending an appeal of his conviction.
“I don’t believe that the original basis for my stay of Mr. Bannon’s sentence exists any longer,” Nichols said according to the Washington Post. “I no longer consider that his appeal raises substantial questions of law of a kind likely to reverse his conviction.”
Bannon was ordered to report to prison on July 1 to begin his sentence.
Bannon is the second former Trump administration official to be sentenced to jail for refusing to complying with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. Peter Navarro began serving a four-month federal jail sentence in March after the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of his conviction.
