On April 10, 2024, an Army soldier named Samuel J. Meeks stood beneath a gazebo in Green Cove Springs, Florida, smiling for wedding photographs with a Chinese national he had just married. Four days later, federal prosecutors suggested the ceremony was less a union than a $35,000 security breach. Meeks, an active-duty soldier then-stationed at Fort Campbell, was a prize recruit for a Jacksonville-based ring led by Anny Chen, Yafeng Deng, and Hai…
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