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Former Trump aide Dr. Peter Navarro has been ordered to report to prison next week, March 19, to serve his four-month sentence.
Navarro is appealing his conviction.
“Sunday’s filing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia states that Navarro has now been ordered to report to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, FCI Miami, by 2:00 pm on March 19.” Accordingly, Dr. Navarro respectfully renews his request for administrative relief [sic] suspend the provision to allow the Court to decide on the present application. Should this Court deny Dr. Navarro’s motion, he will respectfully request an administrative stay to allow the Supreme Court to review this Court’s denial,” Woodward wrote.” – Fox News reported.
Excerpt from Fox News:
Peter Navarro, who served in the White House under former President Trump, was ordered to report to a Miami prison by March 19 to begin serving a four-month sentence for violating a commission subpoena of the Chamber of 6 January.
The order was revealed in a court document Sunday by Navarro’s attorney, Stanley Woodward.
In January, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Navarro to four months in prison and ordered him to pay a $9,500 fine. The sentence was two months shorter than what the six prosecutors had requested, but Mehta dramatically reduced the huge $200,000 fine sought by the Justice Department.
Trump’s former White House aide is seeking appeals court intervention to block the ruling while he fights the conviction.
A federal judge last month denied former Trump aide Dr. Peter Navarro’s request to stay out of prison pending an appeals court decision.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, an Obama appointee, said Peter Navarro must report to prison pending his appeal unless the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals blocks his order.
“Defendant’s cynical and self-serving assertion of political bias poses no question, let alone a ‘substantial’ problem,” Mehta wrote in an earlier order, according to The AP.
In September, former Trump adviser Dr. Peter Navarro, 74, was convicted of criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena in the Jan. 6 Liz Cheney investigation.
Navarro did not comply with the subpoena because he said Trump told him to assert executive privilege.
The jury had previously convicted Navarro of two counts of contempt after deliberating for four hours.
Biden’s corrupt Justice Department called for a six-month prison sentence for Navarro. Late last month, Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Peter Navarro to 4 months in prison and ordered him to pay a $9,500 fine.
“When I got that congressional subpoena, the second one, I had a sincere belief that the privilege had been invoked, and I was torn. No one in my position should be put in conflict between the legislative and executive branches. Is this the lesson of this whole proceeding? Receive a letter and a lawyer? I think in a way it is,” Navarro said speaking in defense of him. “I am disappointed in a trial in which a jury convicted me and I was unable to provide a defense, one of the most important elements of our justice system.”
Judge Mehta barred Navarro from making the executive privilege argument after Justice Department prosecutors accused the former Trump aide of “hiding behind claims of executive privilege.”
Biden’s Justice Department abused Dr. Navarro throughout the entire trial.
According to Navarro, the feds put him in irons and threw him in a cell last year.
“They intercepted me while I was boarding the plane and then they handcuffed me, they brought me here. They put irons on my legs. They put me in a cell,” Navarro told reporters after his arrest last summer.