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Fi Duong

January 6 defendant · Virginia

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Fi Duong is a Virginia man, former U.S. Marine and January 6 defendant who also used the names “Jim,” “Monkey” and “Monkey King” in records connected to his case. He was prosecuted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in United States v. Duong, No. 1:21-cr-00541-PLF, before U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman. ## Case identity and chronology An FBI affidavit dated June 30, 2021 supported the original complaint. It describes the government’s investigation and statements attributed to Duong and others; it is an allegation document, not a judicial finding. A returned warrant records Duong’s arrest on July 2, 2021. Some secondary accounts use July 1, so this profile follows the executed warrant return and preserves the discrepancy. Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey released Duong under high-intensity supervision. The signed packet imposed home incarceration with GPS monitoring, passport surrender, travel and contact restrictions, a firearms prohibition, and removal of firearms and materials involving dangerous devices from the residence. Employment outside the home required Pretrial Services verification. Contemporary reporting described the court as weighing his lack of criminal history, community ties and the absence of a charged plan or act of violence. Those considerations concerned pretrial risk, not guilt. A grand jury returned a five-count indictment on August 25, 2021. It alleged obstruction and aiding and abetting, entering and disorderly conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. Those were accusations, not convictions. On April 21, 2023, prosecutors filed a one-count Information charging civil disorder under 18 U.S.C. § 231(a)(3). Duong pleaded guilty to that offense the same day under a written agreement. The agreement required a $100 assessment and $2,000 restitution and said the government would seek dismissal of the indictment at sentencing. Judge Friedman sentenced Duong on November 5, 2024 to 36 months of probation, 50 hours of community service, $2,000 restitution and the $100 assessment, with no imprisonment. A contemporary CNN report republished by WHDH records the judge’s view that Duong was unlikely to reoffend and that roughly three and a half years of restrictive pretrial compliance weighed against incarceration. The January 20, 2025 presidential proclamation granted full, complete and unconditional pardons to covered January 6 defendants other than the named commutation recipients. Duong’s conviction falls within that covered class. The archive has not located an individual pardon certificate bearing his name. ## Prosecutor allegations The complaint affidavit alleged that Duong entered the Capitol, later discussed militia-style organization with an undercover agent, participated in surveillance of the Capitol, and discussed weapons and destructive devices. It also attributed statements to him about documenting events “like a journalist,” seeing a crowbar passed, and believing the breach likely hurt President Trump. These are government allegations and attributed statements; the affidavit does not itself prove each assertion. At sentencing, prosecutors argued that Duong’s conduct and post-January 6 activity were serious and inconsistent with his Marine oath. That was the government’s advocacy position. The offense of conviction was civil disorder; the other indictment counts were not convictions. ## Defense and Duong’s position Defense counsel Sabrina P. Shroff argued for a noncustodial outcome, addressed general deterrence and represented that Duong was sorry. At the initial release hearing, the defense stressed his lack of criminal history and community ties. Duong’s guilty plea admitted the civil-disorder offense under the separate statement of offense referenced by the agreement. That signed statement has not yet been captured, so this profile does not reconstruct its text. ## Judicial findings and outcome The release court imposed stringent conditions but did not order pretrial detention. Judge Friedman later accepted the guilty plea and imposed probation rather than prison. The sentencing court’s determination is distinct from both the broader complaint allegations and the parties’ sentencing advocacy. ## Corrections, conflicts and remaining unknowns The controlling criminal docket is 1:21-cr-00541-PLF, not the earlier magistrate reference 21-mj-511. The arrest date is July 2, 2021 from the warrant return; inconsistent secondary dates remain noted. The five-count indictment is preserved as an allegation record, while the only conviction recorded here is civil disorder under the later Information. Missing primary records include the signed statement of offense, plea-hearing transcript, sentencing memoranda, signed judgment, sentencing transcript, dismissal order for the indictment, native PACER byte comparison and an individual pardon certificate. ## Visual status This profile uses a face-free “Portrait Needed” archive card. It is not a photograph and does not depict Fi Duong. Images in the complaint show masked or context-dependent figures and were not repurposed as a portrait because clear identity and a lawful reuse basis were not established together.