Jan. 6 Defendant Allegedly Blabbed To Undercover Fed About Riot, Jailbreak Scheme

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“I was right in front when they smashed the doors. I also got footage of the Capital Police [sic] shooting the rubber bullets at us.” - Jan 6 defendent Fi Duong to FBI undercover officer. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jan-6-defendant-allegedly-blabbed-to-undercover-fed-about-riot-jailbreak-scheme… via @TPM

Jan. 6 Defendant Allegedly Blabbed To Undercover Fed About Riot, Jailbreak Scheme
Jan. 6 Defendant Allegedly Blabbed To Undercover Fed About Riot, Jailbreak Scheme
talkingpointsmemo.com
1:28 PM · Jul 6, 2021

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jan-6-defendant-allegedly-blabbed-to-undercover-fed-about-riot-jailbreak-scheme

A new defendant in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack case needs better friends.

According to court records filed over last week and recently unsealed, Fi Duong spilled some incriminating evidence to an undercover FBI employee — a source he was introduced to by an undercover Metropolitan Police Department employee he’d met at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

In addition to the Capitol attack itself, Duong allegedly spoke at length to the undercover FBI employee about making Molotov cocktails, and even mused about breaking Jan. 6 defendants out of custody.

“I was right in front when they smashed the doors,” he allegedly bragged to the FBI employee in a late-March conversation, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit. “I also got footage of the Capital Police [sic] shooting the rubber bullets at us.”

The revelation that prosecutors are employing information from undercover law enforcement sources — first flagged by researcher Seamus Hughes Tuesday — marks a new chapter in the ongoing investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection, six months after a pro-Trump mob attacked Congress.

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