Ex-Army Sergeant Who Tried to Hand U.S. Secrets to Communist China Gets Just Four Years — Judge Cites “Mental Health”
Joseph Daniel Schmidt (U.S. Army) 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 …