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Federico Guillermo Klein

Pardoned January 6 defendant · U.S. Marine veteran and former State Department appointee

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Federico Guillermo Klein is a United States Marine Corps veteran from Falls Church, Virginia who went on to serve as an appointee at the U.S. State Department. Friends call him Freddie. The federal record calls him Freddie too. He wore the uniform. Then he wore a government badge. Then he wore a federal number. That is the arc, and this archive is going to lay all three parts of it out plain. WHO HE IS FACT: Klein is a U.S. Marine veteran. The Justice Department itself described him as a former Marine and a State Department appointee in its own sentencing press release. When the government wants to make you sound worse, and it still has to call you a Marine, that part is not in dispute. FACT: He is from Falls Church, Virginia, in the Washington suburbs. THE CASE FACT: United States v. Klein, No. 1:21-cr-236, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Federico Klein was arrested March 4, 2021. FACT: A published April 2021 detention opinion allowed his release under conditions, after the court examined whether the government had actually established a continuing forward looking danger that release conditions could not handle. The court found it had not. FACT: His case was one of the major Lower West Terrace tunnel prosecutions. THE VIDEO ACCESS FIGHT, AND WHY IT MATTERS HERE FACT: On June 30, 2021, Judge John D. Bates ruled on a press coalition request for the video tied to Klein April 9 detention hearing. Bates held that clips actually shown to the court were judicial records, subject to the common law presumption of public access, and allowed them to be copied and published. He denied access through that application to videos only referenced in filings but never played in court. That ruling was about records, not guilt. But write this one down: a federal judge in a January 6 case held that what the government shows a court belongs to the public. Release the bodycam. Release the tape. Same principle, same courthouse. TRIAL AND FINDINGS FACT: Klein waived a jury and went to a bench trial before U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden. On July 20, 2023 the court found him guilty. The Justice Department reported eight felony findings: six counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and aiding and abetting, one obstruction count and aiding and abetting, and civil disorder. The court also found him guilty of two misdemeanors. The government descriptions of what Klein did in that tunnel are attributed to the government evidence and the court record. This archive records them as the government case. It does not adopt them as a verdict on the man. SENTENCE FACT: On November 3, 2023, Judge McFadden sentenced Federico Klein to 70 months in federal prison, 24 months of supervised release, and $5,000 in combined fines and restitution. Five years and ten months in federal prison. For a Marine veteran. PARDON FACT: On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued a full, complete and unconditional pardon to the covered January 6 defendants, other than 14 people whose sentences were specifically commuted. Federico Klein was not among the named commutation recipients. His covered convictions fell within the full pardon provision. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: The archive has not preserved a separate post pardon docket order vacating the judgment. A pardon does not by itself rewrite a court record. So both things stay on this page. The judgment, and the pardon. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE A bench trial is one judge. It is not eight jurors from the District agreeing unanimously, because Klein did not get that and did not ask for it. The findings are the findings. They are not a character verdict on a man who put on a Marine uniform for this country. RESEARCH STILL NEEDED The native indictment and any superseding indictments. The complete bench trial findings or transcript. The native judgment and the sentencing transcript. Any post pardon docket entries. A file level hash for every native court PDF. A dignified reusable photograph he actually chooses. And a post release statement from Federico Klein or his family, in their own words. The photograph currently attached to this profile came in from a public archive and has not been authenticated as an image he would choose. If it is not right, we will pull it the day he asks. CASE RECORD Case 1:21-cr-236, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Arrested March 4, 2021. Released under conditions after an April 2021 detention opinion. Bench trial before Judge Trevor N. McFadden, guilty findings July 20, 2023. Sentenced November 3, 2023 to 70 months. Covered by the full pardon provision of the January 20, 2025 clemency proclamation. No separate post pardon vacatur verified in this archive. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.

Evidence on file

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Court2 documents

Court orders, rulings, transcripts, and docket entries.

ruling · Jun 30, 2021

In re Application for Access to Certain Sealed Video Exhibits — Federico Klein Record

Eleven-page memorandum opinion by Judge John D. Bates addressing press access to video clips associated with Federico Klein’s April 9, 2021 detention hearing. The court granted access to clips actually shown to the court and denied access through this application to videos only referenced in filings. This was an access-to-judicial-records ruling, not a determination of guilt. Native PDF captured and verified at 153,140 bytes; SHA-256 43973fb241fa4b35d339aefb0a3f1375b6b0ae2ae1fa179c2ead3d684cdf7c6a.

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ruling · Apr 12, 2021

United States v. Klein — Detention Review Opinion

Published April 12, 2021 memorandum opinion by Judge John D. Bates ordering Federico Klein’s release pending trial under strict conditions. The court held that the government had not met its clear-and-convincing burden to establish a prospective danger that release conditions could not address. The opinion did not decide guilt. Canonical-URL SHA-256: 03710499556d1d09821f02ebe486e8a859498e4ae7dbf3b45664881653f890e3. Full native PDF capture remains pending.

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Responses from DC DOC, the U.S. Marshals, and federal agencies.

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order · Jan 20, 2025

January 20, 2025 January 6 Clemency Proclamation

Presidential proclamation commuting the sentences of fourteen named January 6 defendants to time served and granting full, complete, and unconditional pardons to the other covered convicted defendants. Person-specific status must be determined from the proclamation’s two separate clemency provisions.

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article · Nov 3, 2023

Federico Klein Sentencing Record — November 3, 2023

Official Justice Department release reporting a sentence of 70 months imprisonment, 24 months supervised release, and $5,000 in fines and restitution.

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article · Jul 20, 2023

Federico Klein Bench-Trial Findings — July 20, 2023

Official Justice Department release reporting the findings entered after Federico Klein’s bench trial before Judge Trevor N. McFadden. Government descriptions are attributed to the release and underlying court record.

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