Indicted by a grand jury. I am not a lawyer but that just does not sound possible, legally. It seems like the House committee may have standing to try to impose a fine, but a grand jury? Bannon has not committee a crime.
Yes he did, and if he gets an Dem judge, he will be in jail for a few months. He should have shown up and given a belligerent and generally unpleasant deposition. Simply refusing to show up both makes you look guilty, and makes for an easy prosecution.
2 U.S. Code ยง 192 - Refusal of witness to testify or produce papers
U.S. Code
Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House, or any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or any committee of either House of Congress, willfully makes default, or who, having appeared, refuses to answer any question pertinent to the question under inquiry, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 nor less than $100 and imprisonment in a common jail for not less than one month nor more than twelve