{"id":135884,"date":"2025-09-04T23:23:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135884"},"modified":"2025-09-04T23:23:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:23:54","slug":"us-state-department-employee-sentenced-for-passing-classified-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135884","title":{"rendered":"US State Department employee sentenced for passing classified information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA US State Department employee was sentenced to four years in prison in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Thursday for conspiring to collect and transmit national defence secrets to individuals he believed were working for the Chinese government, according to the US Justice Department.<br \/>\nMichael Schena, age 42, sold \u201csensitive\u201d US government documents to people who claimed to be international consultants, according to court documents, despite clear indications and his&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/diplomacy\/article\/3324402\/us-state-department-employee-sentenced-passing-classified-information?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA US State Department employee was sentenced to four years in prison in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}