FBI Director could face 12 months in jail
FBI Director Christopher Ray could face up to 12 months in jail they found guilty of Contempt of Congress. The criminal offense of contempt of Congress sets the penalty at not less than one month nor more than twelve months in jail and a fine of not more than $100,000 or less than $100. The last successful prosecution on contempt charges reaches all the way back to the 1970's, The Watergate Scandal when G. Gordon Liddy was convicted of and Richard Kleindienst pleaded guilty to refusing to answer congressional questions. The Federal District Court Judge John H. Pratt, without a jury, gave Mr. Liddy a suspended six‐month sentence and one year's probation. The last successful sentence for contempt of congress was in the 1930s. February 1934 the first federal aviation regulator, William P. MacCracken, Jr., became the last person in the United States to be imprisoned for contempt of Congress. Steve Bannon, in 2022 was sentenced to 4 months in prison for contempt of Congress.