WASHINGTON: Peter Navarro, a White Home commerce advisor to former president Donald Trump, was sentenced to 4 months in jail on Thursday (Jan 25) for refusing to testify earlier than the congressional panel that investigated the Jan 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol.
Navarro, 74, a Harvard-educated economist, was discovered responsible of two counts of contempt of Congress by a federal jury in Washington in September after a two-day trial.
US District Decide Amit Mehta sentenced him to 4 months in jail – two months lower than prosecutors had requested – and ordered him to pay a nice of US$9,500.
“You aren’t a sufferer,” The Washington Submit quoted Mehta as saying at Navarro’s sentencing listening to. “You aren’t the article of a political prosecution. These are circumstances of your personal making.”
Navarro had refused to look for a deposition earlier than the Home of Representatives committee that investigated the January 6 assault on Congress by Trump supporters and declined to produce paperwork to the panel.
Navarro is the second shut Trump ally to be convicted of contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas from the Home committee.
Steve Bannon, one of many masterminds behind Trump’s 2016 presidential marketing campaign and victory, was additionally discovered responsible of contempt of Congress.
Bannon was sentenced to 4 months in jail however stays free pending an attraction. Navarro can also be anticipated to attraction.
