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Tam Dinh Pham

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Tam Dinh Pham came to Texas from Vietnam and gave eighteen years of his life to the Houston Police Department. That is the first thing you should know about him. Not the charge. The badge. Eighteen years of it. FACT: Tam Dinh Pham served as a Houston Police Department officer for roughly eighteen years before January 6, 2021. Houston Chronicle coverage describes him as a veteran Houston cop. Source: Houston Chronicle. FACT: Pham is a Vietnamese immigrant. At his sentencing, his life story was described in open court as inspiring. WUSA9 headlined its report on the outcome around that exact word. Source: WUSA9. FACT: He was arrested January 20, 2021 in the Southern District of Texas. He pleaded not guilty on February 23, 2021. Source: U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia defendant record. FACT: On September 20, 2021 he entered a plea agreement and pleaded guilty to a single count. On December 10, 2021 he was sentenced to 45 days incarceration, a $1,000 fine, and $500 restitution. Source: U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia defendant record and Houston Public Media. That is a misdemeanor-level outcome. Forty-five days. Read the record before you read the headline. THEIR ACCOUNT: Pham expressed regret for going inside the Capitol in interviews and in his sentencing filings. Source: The Daily Beast, defense sentencing memorandum filed in Case 1:21-cr-00109-TJK. DOCUMENTED INFERENCE: President Trump issued clemency covering January 6 cases on January 20, 2025. Tam Dinh Pham had completed his 45-day sentence more than three years before that date. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: his individual clemency paperwork has not been pulled for this archive. An immigrant who put on an American uniform and worked a beat in Houston, Texas for almost two decades. That is a whole man. The record holds all of it. CASE RECORD Case number: 1:21-cr-109 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Arrest date: January 20, 2021 Sentenced: December 10, 2021 DOJ defendant page: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/pham-tam-dinh This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.