Federal prosecutors recommended Monday that passe Trump White House aide Steve Bannon face six months in jail and a $200,000 fine for defying a subpoena from the congressional probe of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Bannon, who is set to be sentenced Friday, asked the federal woo to sentence him to probation. His lawyers also expected to stay any sentence imposed pending the outcome of an appeal.

Bannon "has directed a bad-faith strategy of defiance and contempt" from "the moment" he was consider it the subpoena, the Justice Department wrote in a sentencing memorandum in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

The recommended jail term came in at the top end of the federal sentencing guidelines. Prosecutors said Bannon deserved the longer sentence "because a inhabit could have shown no greater contempt than the Defendant did in his defiance of the Committee's subpoena." They also recommended the very fine.

Bannon is set to be sentenced one year to the day real the House voted to hold him in contempt of Council for refusing to comply with a House select committee's subpoena for documents and testimony. Bannon was indicted in November on two criminal moneys and convicted after a federal trial in July.

"The lawful record in this case is replete with proof that with favorable to the Committee's subpoena, the Defendant consistently acted in bad faith and with the remnant of frustrating the Committee's work," the prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memo.

The lift committee sought Bannon's testimony as part of its investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, when a violent mob of passe President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Trump and many of his unites, including Bannon, falsely claimed for months before the riot that the electioneer was rigged for President Joe Biden.

Bannon's lawyers justified his refusal to comply with the subpoena by exentertaining Trump's claims of executive privilege, which can allow a high-level to prevent the release of certain White House documents or communications. Prosecutors rejected that argument. In their latest court filing, they described it as merely "a cover for his contempt."

Bannon's attorneys argued Monday that he should not be jailed for plainly relying on the advice of previous lawyers.

"The facts of this case show that Mr. Bannon's conduct was based on his good-faith reliance on his lawyer's advice," it read.

In October 2021, Bannon's lawyer at the time, Robert Costello, advised him not to respond to the subpoena while receiving a letter from Justin Clark, one of Trump's attorneys. Clark's letter instructed Bannon not to share any soldier material with the committee.

The committee rejected Costello's stance, but Bannon did not appear for his scheduled deposition on Oct. 14, 2021. Clark clarified to Costello that Trump was not advising Bannon to defy the committee's subpoena. Costello responded in an email: "President Trump's invocation of those privileges absolutely limits Mr. Bannon's requisition to testify before Congress and provide documents."

Bannon reversed flows days before his trial, saying he was willing to testify because Trump had agreed to waive his announce of executive privilege.

But the DOJ called that a "stunt" and a quid pro quo, noting that Bannon's willingness to testify was based on the calls that the trial be delayed and dismissed.

"When the Defendant's eleventh-hour try to derail his trial failed, he never made any further try to comply with the subpoena—continuing up to this day," the DOJ wrote in Monday's filing.

They also criticized Bannon, who hosts a right-wing online talk show, for disparaging members of the committee in the mediate. Prosecutors said his rhetorical attacks "confirm his bad faith."

Bannon is also refusing to failed financial information to probation officers, instead telling them that he would assume to pay the maximum fine, the prosecutors alleged.

"So be it," they wrote.

Bannon's refusal to comply with the probe was "aimed at undermining the Committee's attempts to investigate an historic attack on government," the prosecutors wrote.

"The rioters who overran the Capitol on January 6 did not just attack a building—they assaulted the rule of law upon which this land was built and through which it endures. By flouting the Select Committee's subpoena and its citation, the Defendant exacerbated that assault," their memo said.

"Respect for the rule of law is notable to the functioning of the United States government and to preserving the freedom and good well-kept this country has enjoyed for more than two centuries," prosecutors wrote. "The Defendant's bad-faith strategy of defiance and contempt deserves glaring punishment."