After the Supreme Court denied his request for a reprieve, former White House adviser Peter Navarro surrendered and faces a four-month prison sentence.
Navarro, 74, has become the first former White House official imprisoned for contempt of Congress. His conviction arose from his unwillingness to comply with congressional subpoenas on the January 6 Capitol attack probe.
The former White House trade advisor to former President Donald Trump will spend time in a Miami federal Bureau of Prisons satellite camp, where he will hear lions roar every day from a neighboring zoo. He has been placed to an 80-person dormitory reserved for senior convicts at the Miami institution.
According to Navarro’s jail consultant, Sam Mangel, “Not only can you hear the lions … you can hear the lions roar every morning.”
“He’s nervous,” he said about Navarro.
Mangel is part of a legal support network that assists wealthy inmates and their families during their stay in prison.
Navarro’s legal team, lead by Stanley Brand, intends to appeal the conviction, hoping for a lesser sentence or a retrial. However, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar criticized Navarro’s arguments as meritless, indicating that an appeal would be unlikely to succeed.
Speaking to the media prior to his detention, he raised concerns about Donald Trump, stating that his conviction was the consequence of the efforts of lawmakers, prosecutors, and judges who are “Trump-haters.”
