Peter Navarro, former director of the White House’s National Trade Council under the Trump administration, has been ordered to report to a Miami prison on March 19.
Navarro, 74, will serve a four-month sentence for two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with the select committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attack. One for failing to produce documents related to the probe and another for skipping his deposition.
The Hill reports:
His lawyers wrote in a Sunday court filing that a federal appeals court should temporarily put his sentence on hold while he appeals his conviction. If that effort fails, he could become the first key Trump adviser to serve jail time over efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
In February, Navarro’s request to stay out of prison as he appeals his conviction was denied by a federal judge.
Navarro’s counsel had argued that the question of executive privilege, which Navarro claimed Trump invoked over any testimony to the House Jan. 6 panel, rises to that threshold.
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Ex-White House adviser Steve Bannon was also convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress last year and sentenced to four months in prison, but a different judge said he could remain free pending appeal. Bannon argued his case before a federal appeals court in November and still has not served that time.
At trial, prosecutors asserted Navarro showed “utter disregard” for the House committee’s probe and “utter contempt for the rule of law.”
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