Steve Bannon to be released from prison next week, Bureau of Prisons says, despite his attempts for earlier exit
Source: CNN Politics
Published 4:44 PM EDT, Mon October 21, 2024
CNN Steve Bannon, the right-wing podcaster and former Donald Trump aide, is set to get out of federal prison next Tuesday despite repeated attempts he and his legal defense team have made for him to be released early.
The Bureau of Prisons said in a letter to Bannon on Monday that his release date will remain October 29, as originally set. That means he will serve his full 120-day sentence for contempt of Congress behind bars.
Since learning in recent days he may be eligible to move to home confinement, Bannon has accused the BOP of political interference, and his attorneys have been advocating both in court and to prison officials for leniency.
The acting warden of the low-security Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, wrote to Bannons lawyers on Monday that there wasnt enough time to arrange for Bannon to move to home confinement in Washington, DC. Home confinement was a possibility for the former top White House adviser because of a provision for some first-time federal offenders under the Trump-era First Step Act.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/politics/steve-bannon-early-release-bureau-of-prisons/index.html
He's going to be like a wild animal once he gets cut loose. He still has a (state) trial in NY scheduled for December.
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durablend
(7,770 posts)The October Surprise nobody wants
progressoid
(50,597 posts)Hopefully, he's just full of hot air and doesn't have plans for Donald.
gab13by13
(24,433 posts)He prosecuted 2 people from TSFs inner circle, Brannon and Navarro.
Yeah it took criminal referrals from the J6 committee, just saying.
BumRushDaShow
(140,046 posts)Bannon was FEDERALLY CHARGED by DOJ for the "We Build the Wall" scam and was PARDONED by 45.
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Thanks to NY state getting rid of their "double jeopardy" law, Bannon is about to face the SAME charges, except for violation of STATE law, in 2 months.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(2,998 posts)If you get convicted of a subsequent crime after being pardoned, you have to complete the term for which you were pardoned before the terms for the next can begin.
That would keep them clean.
Call it Bannon's Law
Frank D. Lincoln
(462 posts)GenThePerservering
(2,420 posts)and fumigate it.
BumRushDaShow
(140,046 posts)Frank D. Lincoln
(462 posts)BaronChocula
(2,417 posts)for his next felonius election scheme. Don't close that cell door yet.