No. of Recommendations: 9
The DC court hearing Bannon's appeal of his conviction for contempt for failure to respond to a subpoena rejected his appeal today, May 10. The decision did not immediately dispatch him back to prison. Strangely, he was given another seven days to submit another motion to the full court of appeals to hear his request. This decision was unanimous but only involved a 3-judge panel, not the entire court of appeals, hence the additional steps still open for him to pursue.
Bannon's pending sentence is only five months but I fear at this point there may be enough avenues for delay either by appealing to the full court or to the Supreme Court that he could stretch this out until the end of the year and count on a Trump win to pardon him by January 20, 2025 to keep his jail time to a minimum or maybe nothing.
This sounds like justice but sure doesn't feel like it.
WTH
No. of Recommendations: 4
This sounds like justice but sure doesn't feel like it.
Justice would have Bannon already serving years for his part in the "We Build the Wall" ripoff, but the Orange Turd saved him from the federal charges that resulted in his criminals partners going to prison. Hopefully Judge Merchan will try Bannon's case in September (should have been last month).
Brian Kolfage, a U.S. Air Force veteran and founder of the We Build the Wall organization, was sentenced to over four years in jail after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and other tax- and wire-fraud charges in connection with the millions donated to the campaign.
Andrew Badolato, a co-defendant, also pleaded guilty to wire-fraud conspiracy and was sentenced to three years.
A third defendant, Timothy Shea, was found guilty at trial of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and obstruction of justice.
"Bannon, a former White House senior adviser, pleaded not guilty to charges of money laundering, conspiracy and scheming to defraud in connection with $15 million in donations a "We Build the Wall" fundraising campaign."
The orange turd can't save him from state charges.
