Bannon is scheduled to be released on Oct. 29.
Steve Bannon will serve the rest of his prison sentence, a federal judge ordered on Oct. 22.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols rejected Bannon’s request to be released early from prison.
“Whether viewed as a motion for reconsideration or not, the Court concludes that the relief the Defendant seeks is not warranted,” Nichols said in a minute order released by the U.S. District Court in Washington.
Bannon, a former official in the Trump administration, on July 1 started serving a 4-month sentence at a federal prison in Connecticut. He was convicted of being in contempt of Congress. Based on advice from his lawyer, Bannon had declined to cooperate with a U.S. House of Representatives panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.In an Aug. 29 motion, Bannon asked Nichols to order his release. Through his attorneys, Bannon noted his appeal has been pending since July, which they said should result in a reconsideration of his case or at least one dissent based on historical practice.A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit turned away Bannon’s appeal of his conviction, prompting Bannon to request