# Candice Chiu Wong A sitting member of the **[[United States Sentencing Commission]]** and a partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson — and, in April 2025, the instrument used to remove her husband from the White House. [[Laura Loomer]] built her case against [[Alex Wong]] partly on Candice Wong's record as a federal prosecutor, and Wong was out of the National Security Council within a month. ## Record Wong was an **Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 2015 to 2024**, leading the office's Violence Reduction and Trafficking Offenses Section for more than two years. She held senior positions in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, including acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Staff, and served from 2020 to 2021 as DOJ's *ex officio* member of the Sentencing Commission. Before entering public service she practiced at Bancroft PLLC and King & Spalding. She clerked for **Justice Sandra Day O'Connor** and **Justice Sonia Sotomayor** at the Supreme Court, and for **then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh** on the D.C. Circuit. Harvard A.B., Harvard J.D. She was confirmed to the Sentencing Commission on **August 4, 2022** as part of a seven-member slate — the first full slate seated at once since 1999 — which restored the quorum the Commission had lacked since 2019, and which passed the Senate with bipartisan support. She remains on the Commission's official roster, alongside Chair Carlton W. Reeves and Vice Chair Luis Felipe Restrepo. ## The 2025 attack Loomer's April 2025 campaign against NSC staff characterized Wong as a January 6 prosecutor and a partisan implant, and separately made claims about her father's supposed ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Senator [[Tom Cotton]], her husband's former employer, responded publicly that both Wongs were "complete and total patriots." > [!warning] What is and is not established > That Loomer made these claims, and that Alex Wong left the NSC weeks later, is documented. The substance of the claims about Wong's family is **not** established by any public evidence, and this page does not treat it as fact. Her nine-year tenure as an AUSA in the district that prosecuted the Capitol attack is a matter of public record; the characterization of that work as disqualifying is a political claim, not a finding. The Kavanaugh clerkship and the bipartisan Senate confirmation sit awkwardly with the framing and are worth stating alongside it. ## Why She Matters for the KB She is the clearest example in the vault of a pattern that recurs across the [[Laura Loomer]] removals: **the target's disloyalty is proved by association, and the association is often a spouse's career**. A prosecutor's ordinary caseload becomes evidence about someone else's fitness to serve. It is also a live counting problem for the vault — a Sentencing Commission member confirmed with bipartisan support and a Kavanaugh clerkship on her résumé does not fit the story that was told about her, which is exactly why the episode is worth recording precisely. ## See Also - [[Alex Wong]] — her husband, removed from the NSC in May 2025 - [[Laura Loomer]] — the influencer who made her record the argument - [[United States Sentencing Commission]] — the body she sits on - [[Brett Kavanaugh]] — the judge she clerked for on the D.C. Circuit - [[Hegseth Signalgate]] — the scandal that put her husband's name in public