US EditionFormer JBLM U.S. Army Sergeant Sentenced for Providing National Security Materials to China
Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 31, admitted to creating documents with classified secrets and offered military network access to Chinese intelligence, authorities said.
- A former U.S. Army sergeant who served at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was sentenced to four years in prison and three years of supervised release for providing national security information to China.
- Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 31, pleaded guilty in June 2025 to attempting to deliver national defense information and retention of national defense information.
- The FBI Seattle field office said Schmidt violated his oath as a soldier by handing over classified information to China.
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Ex-soldier sentenced to 4 years in prison for trying to give sensitive US military info to China
“As a retired Army officer, I find it unconscionable for a former soldier to put his colleagues and country at risk by peddling secret information and intelligence access to a hostile foreign power,” U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd said
Ex-Army Sergeant Sentenced to 4 Years for Offering Secrets to China
A federal judge sentenced a former Army intelligence sergeant to 4 years in prison on Tuesday for offering national defense secrets to China. Sergeant Joseph Daniel Schmidt, who had top secret clearance, served in western Washington at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, where he worked in military intelligence. According to court documents, he served in the Army from January 2015 to January 2020. Schmidt was discharged after a mental health episode in la…
Ex-Army Sergeant Gets Four Years for Attempting to Give Secrets to China, Citing Mental Health Spiral - Real News Now
A former U.S. Army intelligence sergeant with top-secret clearance was sentenced Tuesday to four years in federal prison after admitting he tried to provide classified information to the Chinese government. Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 31, who served in the Army’s 109th Military Intelligence Battalion at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, pleaded guilty in June to charges of attempting to deliver national defense information to a foreign go…
China Spy Plot Lands Ex-Army Sergeant in Prison
A former U.S. soldier’s attempt to pass military secrets to Beijing has ended in a four-year federal prison sentence, capping a shocking China spy plot that highlights growing foreign recruitment threats facing America’s armed forces. Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 31, once held top secret clearance at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state and pleaded guilty in June to attempting to deliver and retain classified defense material, according to the…
MichaelSavage.com – Ex-Army Sergeant Who Tried to Hand U.S. Secrets to Communist China Gets Just Four Years — Judge Cites “Mental Health”
A former Army intelligence sergeant once trusted with America’s most sensitive military secrets will serve only four years in prison after trying to pass top-secret information to the Chinese government, all because a federal judge decided to show leniency over his mental health. Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 31, was once stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in…
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