Former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon is scheduled to be released from prison on Tuesday serve four months for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena from the committee investigating the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Committee investigators sought Bannon’s testimony and documents about his involvement in then-President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Bannon tried in vain to invoke executive privilege to protect himself from investigators, but that argument failed. since Bannon was fired from the White House long before he consulted with Trump about January 6th.

Bannon was incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, a low-security facility. He was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress after a four-day jury trial.

He will be back in court very soon and will try to stave off another prison sentence.

Bannon is scheduled to appear in a New York City court on December 9th. He is accused of harassment Donors who sent their money to We Build the Wall, a group that claimed it was committed to fulfilling one of Trump’s 2016 campaign promises: building a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Bannon faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering. He has pleaded not guilty.

A lawyer for Bannon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Breitbart co-founder was first charged in the “We Build The Wall” case in August 2020. He was arrested on board a luxury yacht Guo Wengui, an exiled Chinese billionaire, also known as Miles Guo. Bannon was indicted along with We Build The Wall co-founder and U.S. Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage, Florida financier Andrew Badolato and Colorado partner and businessman Tim Shea. (Guo was convicted in July of racketeering, fraud and money laundering in a separate matter and had a close relationship with Bannon; the two once announced a plan to overthrow the Chinese Communist Party.)

Trump pardoned Bannon as one of his final acts in office in January 2021 and let him escape federal charges. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has subsequently filed a state-level lawsuit on related charges that cannot be affected by a presidential pardon.

Trump has not pardoned any of Bannon’s co-defendants. Kolfage and Baodolato pleaded guilty filed a number of charges in April 2022, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Kolfage also pleaded guilty to tax fraud. Kolfage approved to siphon hundreds of thousands of dollars from the fundraising group, which had raised nearly $25 million from private donors but ended up building only a few miles of wall.

Prosecutors said Kolfage promised he would never take a salary as founder of We Build The Wall, and he told donors that 100% of the money raised would go toward building the wall.

Instead, prosecutors say, Koflage burned donors’ donations. Cash, cosmetic surgery expenses, a luxury vehicle worth about $350,000, boat payments, credit card debt and other personal expenses. When he was sentenced to just over four years in prison in April 2023, he was ordered to pay back $17 million plus almost $3 million in restitution.

Baodolato was accused of helping to coordinate the wire fraud conspiracy and also pocketing funds. He was ordered to pay back just over $1.4 million, plus restitution of about the same amount.

Prosecutors said the scheme resulted in at least $1 million flowing to Bannon, some of which he allegedly laundered through other third-party companies. Bannon, like Kolfage, is accused of deceiving donors by claiming that the funds would never be used for executive salaries. However, the prosecution alleges that Bannon explicitly facilitated at least $100.00 in salary payments to Kolfage.

Bragg said Bannon would arrange for We Build The Wall to transfer funds to Bannon’s organization and then pay salaries that way.

Shea was the only one Person charged under the system who was on trial. In June 2022, the jury in the Shea case disagreed and the trial was declared invalid. The jury tried three times to break the stalemate. According to the Associated PressA week before the mistrial, a juror’s note to the judge revealed that at least one juror had expressed biased views, including that he believed Shea was the target of a “government witch hunt” and that the case would never be heard should have been brought to New York.

Shea was retried by a jury and found guilty in October 2022 for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to just over five years in prison and ordered to repay $1.8 million plus restitution in the same amount.