Peter Navarro, who served within the White Home underneath former President Trump, was ordered to report back to a Miami jail by March 19 to start serving a four-month sentence for flouting a Home Jan. 6 committee subpoena.
The order was revealed in a courtroom submitting Sunday by Navarro’s lawyer, Stanley Woodward.
In January, U.S. District Decide Amit Mehta sentenced Navarro to 4 months in jail and ordered him to pay a nice of $9,500. The sentence was two months shorter than the six prosecutors had sought, however Mehta drastically diminished the whopping $200,000 nice sought by the Justice Department.
TRUMP WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL PETER NAVARRO SENTENCED TO 4 MONTHS FOR DEFYING JAN 6 SUBPOENA
Former Trump White Home official Peter Navarro talks to the media as he arrives at U.S. Federal Courthouse in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photograph/Jose Luis Magana)
The previous Trump White House aide is in search of an appeals courtroom to intervene to dam the sentence whereas he fights the conviction.
Sunday’s submitting within the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the District of Columbia states that Navarro has now been ordered to report back to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, FCI Miami, on or earlier than 2:00 p.m. on March 19. “Accordingly, Dr. Navarro respectfully reiterates his request for an administratively stay so as to permit the Court to resolve the instant motion. Should this Court deny Dr. Navarro’s motion, he respectfully requests an administrative stay so as to permit the Supreme Court review of this Court’s denial,” Woodward wrote.
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A former adviser to the president on commerce and manufacturing insurance policies, Navarro was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena for paperwork and a deposition from the Home Choose Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. The subpoena required Navarro to seem and produce paperwork in February 2022, and sit for a deposition in March 2022, however Navarro refused to supply the supplies and testify. As a non-public citizen, he was indicted on June 2, 2022.
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