Steve Bannon must surrender to prison to start contempt sentence, judge says

Steve Bannon appears in court where he says he will fight a judge’s ruling that he must report to prison to serve his four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the US Capitol insurrection (Steven Hirsch/New York Post/AP)

Steve Bannon, a long-time ally of former President Donald Trump, must report to prison by July 1 to serve his four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the US Capitol insurrection, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.

US District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington granted the Justice Department’s request to make Mr Bannon begin his prison term after a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court last month upheld his contempt of Congress conviction.