Federal prosecutors on Monday recommended that Steve Bannon, a top adviser to former President Donald Trump, be sentenced to six months in prison and fined $200,000 for defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 select committee.

The government’s sentencing memorandum accused Bannon of pursuing a “bad-faith strategy of defiance and contempt,” and said he showed a “total disregard for government processes and the law.”

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