Trump adviser Steve Bannon privately scared of going to jail on Monday: report
Former President Donald Trump's associate Steve Bannon has long boasted that he doesn't care about being sentenced to four months in prison, proclaiming earlier this week that it's no big deal because "I don't have a social life." But behind the scenes, it's a different story, reported The Daily Beast.
Bannon, who once served on Trump's campaign and briefly the White House, and runs a far-right commentary platform and show, will check in to begin serving his sentence on Monday, after exhausting his last effort to get the Supreme Court to overturn his sentence for contempt of Congress. The conviction stems from Bannon's categorical refusal to cooperate with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Specifically, one source claimed that Bannon is "quite concerned" about the fact that he'll be housed at FCI Danbury, the low-level federal penitentiary in Connecticut that inspired "Orange Is the New Black." He had been angling to serve out his sentence at a so-called "Club Fed" camp, one of the facilities reserved for the least problematic offenders. That's where Peter Navarro, a former Trump administration official convicted and sentenced identically to Bannon, is currently housed.
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Bannon is being treated more harshly, however, because he has a separate pending criminal case in New York for his involvement in the alleged "We Build The Wall" fraud scheme.
According to the report, serving his sentence at FCI Danbury means Bannon "will be on a more rigid day-to-day schedule that has less freedom of movement, stricter check-ins, and will be surrounded by more dangerous criminals" — including violent criminals and sex offenders, something Bannon had adamantly not wanted to happen.
The failure to convince the Supreme Court to intervene in the case concludes months of efforts by Bannon to get various courts to throw out or delay his sentence.