DOJ requests judge order Steve Bannon to begin prison sentence
DOJ requests judge order Steve Bannon to begin prison sentence
Prosecutors requested the judge overseeing ex-Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon's criminal contempt of Congress case to order he begin his four-month prison sentence.
Its bizarre shit. Imagine being found guilty and sentenced to prison, but then you just leave the courtroom and go home
That's normal.
My dad got sentenced to jail for 4 months and he asked the judge if he could do it starting November because his job was seasonal and the judge said sure, gave him an exact date.
Its weird, but for once this isn't a "rich people ignore the rules everyone else has to follow" thing.
This is different because it wasn't like his jail time was delayed at sentencing.
Instead, unlike standard sentencing, he was allowed to ignore the sentencing until AFTER his appeals.
You know how every criminal in prison spends their free time in prison working on appeals? They would all be free if the US justice system treated them like Steve Bannon.
Happens all the time, especially if the defendant isn't considered a flight risk.
Meth head and his wife had a sign in the yard for 6-weeks, "Going to prison, must sell everything." And boy did they. Even the trailer floorboards.
Reminds me of that Dave Chappelle skit where the drug dealer is prosecuted like a CEO and vice versa. What a fuckery to end up living through the skit.
Cockroaches come and go as they please.
"Excuse me your honor, but at this time I need to remind the court that my client is white and, more importantly, extremely rich. He is on the 'preferred' tier of our justice system, which means he is allowed to remain free pending all of his appeals, and then he still has the right to ignore several subpoenas before we hold the first hearing on when his prison sentence should begin."
-- Bannon's lawyers, probably. And there's a nonzero chance they'd succeed.
Four months is far too short for that fucker.
Ah yes, the old "do criminal shit and then when you're held to account for your criminal shit, scream loudly about how they're trying to 'silence' your voice" routine. We know it well.
I want him to be in prison so much, but only four months?
A lot of these traitors should be getting life.
John brown was shot for doing what these shitheads did.
No, John Brown did it to free the slaves. One of the unofficial goals of Bannon and the other fascists is to expand punitive slavery and likely long term bring back chattel slavery.
Did they say pretty please?
Why does this have to drag out when some traitor is the one who is supposed to go to jail?
Four months is nothing. Still, I doubt he will serve any of it.
Our justice system is a farce.