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I have no idea why the DOJ is putting out a press release about this. It seems more like the sort of thing to never mention again.
A U.S. Navy service member was sentenced today to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay a $5,500 fine for transmitting sensitive U.S. military information to an intelligence officer from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in exchange for bribery payments.
According to court documents, Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, 26, aka Thomas Zhao, of Monterey Park, California, pleaded guilty in October 2023 to one count of conspiring with the intelligence officer and one count of receiving a bribe.
Between August 2021 and at least May 2023, Zhao received at least $14,866 in at least 14 separate bribe payments from the intelligence officer. In exchange for the illicit payments, Zhao secretly collected and transmitted to the intelligence officer sensitive, non-public information regarding U.S. Navy operational security, military trainings and exercises, and critical infrastructure. Zhao entered restricted military and naval installations to collect and record this information.
Zhao transmitted plans for a large-scale maritime training exercise in the Pacific theatre, operational orders and electrical diagrams and blueprints for a Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar system located in Okinawa, Japan.
He used sophisticated encrypted communication methods to transmit the information. He also destroyed evidence and concealed his relationship with the intelligence officer. Zhao’s conduct violated his official duties to protect such information and the oath he swore to protect the United States.
And for that he gets two years. And a fine that’s about a third of the money he got for his treason.
Some people have gotten more than this for petty crimes.
Zhao started out facing 20 years in prison. He ended up pleading guilty to only one count. And Zhao had the chutzpah to ask to be released until trial.
In exchange for bribes, Zhao allegedly sent the intelligence officer operational plans for a large-scale U.S. military exercise in the Indo-Pacific Region, detailing the specific location and timing of naval movements, amphibious landings, maritime operations and logistics support, according to the indictment.
He also allegedly photographed electrical diagrams and blueprints for a radar system stationed on a U.S. military base in Okinawa, Japan.
Prosecutors contend Zhao obtained and transmitted details about the Navy’s operational security at the Naval Base in Ventura County and on San Clemente Island, including photographs and videos.
The damage here in the event of a war could have been and could still be catastrophic. And yet there was a light slap.
Zhao could have been sentenced to up to five years for the conspiracy count and 15 years for the bribery charge, and prosecutors sought 37 months, claiming that the defendant had tried to obstruct their investigation. Zhao’s lawyer sought 12 months. US District Judge R. Gary Klausner took the middle ground and settled on 27 months.
That’s an interesting interpretation of middle ground. Why were prosecutors only asking for three years after all that?
China certainly got its money’s worth here. And more.
People have to understand that spying is a business. The guy is just trying to earn a living to support his family. Remember, DEI is America’s strength. I wonder if he could take the $5,500 fine as a business deduction on his income tax form.
He will probably get his job back when he is released after suing for wrongful discharged. Maybe becoming Secretary of Defense someday.
A little humor for this evening.
Maybe even a prediction…
Well, good, if I couldn’t laugh, I’d be crying.
He’s VERY fortunate he wasn’t in DC on 1/6/21. THEN he’s be in trouble.
Does it seem every branch of our government bows to the Chinese?
Because our government is largely treasonous.
George Washington executed traitors like Thomas Hickey. He did not execute those lesser men who were led astray by the traitors, but he did order all troops not on active duty to observe the executions.
Godly, intelligent masculine leadership is sorely needed again.
Who else is exasperated at the failings of our government? From prosecutors who allow murderers to leave jail with no band to a president who takes money from China and Ukraine and maybe other nations, and then works to get them special considerations or other favors within the Swamp?
Maybe it’s an advertisement for other spies that they can still make a profit – $11,366 – from spying but only if you spy for the correct countries. (See Jonathan Pollard)
Well, Pollard was a Jew spying for Israel, supposedly a friendly country, and so he got a life sentence. If you are spying for our enemies, you get a slap on the wrist, at the most.
We spy on Israel and Israel spies on us.
No one with dual citizenship, even Israeli citizenship, should be a senator or congressman at the national level.
The reason pollard got such a harsh sentence is that he wouldn’t cooperate with the investigation or disclose what he passed on.
That might not be necessary these days, or with this guy, because he was spying for the chicoms, who apparently own the democrat party and a substantial chunk of the GOP.
That kind of criminal activity compromising our national security deserves THE DEATH PENALTY !!!
Crimes like this–clear-cut, irrefutable, outright Treason, aggravated by Espionage for the enemy (not to mention the others, like Bribery) had always carried the Death Penalty under the UCMJ…until very recently, especially under Obama and Biden.
This case should have been promptly tried by summary court-martial lasting half an hour at most. “Evidence” presented briefly by the traitor’s defense attorneys should be heard, then instantly brushed aside.
Then conviction, sentencing, and execution by firing squad or execution at dawn the next morning.
The procedure is detailed but simple, as ordered in a (now-declassified) U.S. War Department Directive dated 12 June 1944 and signed by Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall.
The Directive is that the convicted prisoner is to be taken from his cell by a guard of “twelve men armed with rifles, under the command of a sergeant armed with a pistol.”
A very nice touch in the Directive is that there shall be a military band, playing The Death March, as the prisoner is brought to the place of execution…
…and then, after the sentence has been carried out with the convicted prisoner hanged or shot, and pronounced dead–this the best part–“The escort, with the band playing a lively air, will return to their parade ground and be dismissed.”
Any confusion or questions about how it should be done?
Well, Biden certainly seems to have an affinity for Chinese espionage. Closing the “China Initiative,” allowing the Chinese spy balloon to traverse the entire U.S. from Alaska to the Atlantic Ocean (including loitering for days over military installations in Montana), and now this. Why, it almost looks like a pattern is developing.
Spies for Iran get preferential treatment, too.
China pretty much owns our ruling elite.
Treason ,should b taken out and HANGED
Spying for the Enemy should be a instant Life in Prison for them without parole and no release or Pardons, Period
No. Too expensive. Death.
Take this traitor out back and SHOOT HIM!!!!!!!! Ex-U.S. Navy
James J Smith an FBI Supervisory Special Agent working sensitive Chinese counterintelligence investigations slept with a Chinese double agent for nearly fifteen years. When caught he was given five years probation and a fine. The case against the Chinese double agent collapsed and was thrown out. They eventually married. We are not a serious country anymore.
For a longer sentence, he would have had to trespass on the Capitol waving an American flag, and move a lectern from its original location.
The convicted sailor made the mistake of not working with BlowHunter,
Biden and garland have “Property Of Xi,” or “Xi’s B*tch,” tramp stamps on their lower backs.
This is disgusting beyond words, and it’s obvious the biden doj is corrupt to the core. Anybody in the executive branch that works at the pleasure of the president should be fired on day one of the next GOP president’s administration, like when clinton fired every single US Attorney on day one, and appointed his cronies. The mid level and up that don’t, should be investigated, and be fired and have the book thrown at them for any infractions found, or be relocated to Nome Alaska, and paid to do nothing, if necessary, with no security clearance or access, The precedents have already been set by the democrat party, and if they and the msm want to scream bloody murder, just give them the finger. Obama set the precedent for going after the msm.
Oh, and the Next GOP president should certainly go after the GOPe. They’re certainly corrupt, and should get theirs.
If Trump wins, he’ll be a second term president, with nothing to lose. Nothing lame about that duck.
USA is dying from internal bleeding. Can anyone stop it. Unlikely
The same way Epps got community service
How? Much of the government of the United States has been suborned by the Communist Chinese Party. That’s how.
Guaranteed if this bastard was caught in China spying for the USA, he would be executed. Its time for the penalty for treason to be what it used to be—death by hanging and done quickly.