Federal Prosecutors Oppose Dismissing Steve Bannon's Indictment Despite Trump Pardon -- Here's Why
As the recipient of an eleventh hour pardon from Donald Trump, the 45th president’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon received no protest to closing the case against him, but federal prosecutors opposed dismissing his indictment as a matter of record in a surprise letter on Thursday.
“For the reasons set forth below, while the government does not object to administratively terminating Bannon from the case or exonerating his bail, the government does oppose Bannon’s request that the indictment itself be dismissed as to him,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos wrote in a two-page motion.
(Snip)
Citing the case Nixon v. United States for that proposition, prosecutors italicized the punishment to emphasize that the pardon does not wash away the grand jury’s allegations.
“The fact that Bannon was pardoned does not extinguish the fact that a grand jury found probable cause to believe that he committed the offenses set forth in the Indictment, nor does it undercut the evidence of his involvement therein which the Government expects to elicit as part of its presentation at trial,” their letter states. “Were the Court to dismiss the Indictment against Bannon, it could have a broader effect than the pardon itself, among other things potentially relieving Bannon of certain consequences not covered by the pardon.”
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/federal-prosecutors-oppose-dismissing-steve-bannons-indictment-despite-trump-pardon-heres-why/
= new reply since forum marked as read
As for "potentially relieving Bannon of certain consequences not covered by the pardon," we certainly wouldn't want that.
I'd like the whole thing, trial, conviction, prison as public and transparent as possible. Vindictive as many undoubtedly are, none of them want their noses rubbed in the massive corruption so typical of the trumpists.
But here's to hearing about other "certain consequences" on the evening news.
