Steve Bannon released from prison a week before US election
by Victoria Bekiempis from US news | The Guardian on (#6RTJW)
Trump ally served four-month sentence for defying subpoena in investigation into 6 January attack
Steve Bannon, the longtime Donald Trump acolyte, was released from prison on Tuesday, following a four-month sentence for defying a congressional subpoena in an investigation of the 6 January 2021 US Capitol attack.
The far-right firebrand's release from federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, comes just one week before election day. Bannon, 70, surrendered to prison on 1 July after the US supreme court rebuffed his effort to postpone this sentence pending appeal.
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