Bannon taken into custody on contempt charge

Longtime Trump state Steve Bannon has surrendered to national authorities.

Bannon was taken into custody Monday morning. He’s expected to look successful tribunal aboriginal successful the afternoon.

Bannon surrendered conscionable days aft helium was indicted by a expansive assemblage connected charges of defying a subpoena to look earlier the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riots astatine the U.S. Capitol.

Bannon has refused to talk to the committee, contempt being issued a subpoena earlier this year.

The House voted successful October to clasp Bannon successful contempt of Congress. The complaint was past sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland to find whether to prosecute transgression prosecution.

“Since my archetypal time successful office, I person promised Justice Department employees that unneurotic we would amusement the American radical by connection and deed that the section adheres to the regularisation of law, follows the facts and the instrumentality and pursues adjacent justness nether the law," Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday. “Today’s charges bespeak the department’s steadfast committedness to these principles.”

The Department of Justice says each complaint carries a maximum of 1 twelvemonth successful jail.

The indictment came arsenic a 2nd expected witness, erstwhile White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, defied his ain subpoena from the committee connected Friday.