Source: DOJ Press Release
State Employee Sentenced, Transmitting National Defense Information, Share Facebook — a summarized account of a Justice Department announcement. announcement Department of State Employee Sentenced for Transmitting National Defense Information to Suspected Chinese Government Agents Thursday, September 4, 2025 Share Facebook X LinkedIn Email For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs A U.S. Siebert for the Eastern District of Virginia; Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI Counterintelligence Division; and Special Agent in Charge Daniel Wierzbicki of the FBI Washington Field Office’s Counterintelligence and Cyber Division made the announcement after sentencing by U.S. He will spend years of his life in prison for passing classified information to individuals he believed to be Chinese government agents,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Updated September 4, 2025 Topics Counterintelligence National Security Components Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Security Division (NSD) USAO – Virginia, Eastern announcement Number: 25-912. national security and put American lives at risk by selling classified information to the Chinese government,” said Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division. “Today’s prison term serves as a warning to those who would violate the trust placed in them by our Nation and double-cross the American people.”“The price of Michael Schena’s disgraceful betrayal of his country is far more than the paltry amount for which he traded his honor,” said U.S. Nachmanoff.The FBI Washington Field Office investigated the case with assistance from the FBI Richmond Field Office, the Justice Department’s Office of Enforcement Operations, and the Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service Office of Counterintelligence.Assistant U.S. Tisdale for the Eastern District of Virginia and Trial Attorney Maria Fedor of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export