Steve Bannon verdict: Ex-Trump adviser sentenced to four months in jail - BBC News
The ex-Trump adviser is also fined $6,500 after refusing to testify to Congress about the Capitol riot.
Bannon's lawyer David Schoen has also worked with Donald Trump Image caption: Bannon's lawyer David Schoen has also worked with Donald Trump

Lawyers on both sides are making their final pitches to Judge Carl Nichols before he rules on Steve Bannon's sentence.

Bannon's lawyer David Schoen says the government has applied the "Bannon rule" to the case, meaning that the long-time Trump ally has been treated differently than other defendants.

A lawyer for the Department of Justice speaks next, saying Bannon hid behind a "fabricated claim of executive privilege... to thumb his nose at Congress".

Bannon has argued that executive privilege - a legal principle which allows some communications between presidents and their advisers to be kept private - prevented him from testifying before the House committee.

This argument has already been rejected by the judge.

"Your Honour, the defendant is not above the law," the prosecutor says.