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A US State Department employee was sentenced to 4 years in prison for selling national security information to Chinese agents. He found his "buyers" online, sent them photos of secret files and...
2025-09-05 12:41:00 / BOTA
A US Department of State (DOS) employee was sentenced to 48 months in prison for conspiring to collect and transmit national defense information to individuals he believed worked for the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
According to court documents, beginning in April 2022, Michael Charles Schena, 42, of Alexandria, Virginia, communicated with people he met online through various communication platforms and offered them sensitive U.S. government information in exchange for money. Two of these individuals posed as employees of international consulting firms. Despite clear indications and the belief that they were working on behalf of the People’s Republic of China, Schena continued his relationship with them.
In August 2024, Schena met an individual at a hotel in Peru who gave Schena $10,000 and a cellphone that would be used by Schena to receive assignments and transmit information.
In October 2024, while at work, Schena used the cell phone he obtained in Peru to photograph and transmit at least four classified documents containing national defense information and which were classified at the SECRET level.
In February 2025, security cameras caught Schena again using his cell phone to photograph seven documents marked SECRET that contained national defense information.
FBI agents seized the cell phone before Schena could transmit photographs of these classified documents to his handlers and arrested Schena.
“The defendant threw away his career, betrayed his country, and abused the trust the United States placed in him by granting him a Top Secret security clearance. He will spend years of his life in prison for providing classified information to individuals he believed were agents of the Chinese government. This sentence serves as a warning to those who would violate the trust our Nation has placed in them and deceive the American people,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg.
Meanwhile, U.S. Attorney Erik S. Siebert for the Eastern District of Virginia said: “The price of Michael Schena’s shameful betrayal of his country is far greater than the small sum for which he traded his honor. His acts of selfish greed have cost the loyal men and women of our intelligence community and the nation they serve. The price Schena will pay is the loss of his integrity, his reputation and, with today’s sentencing, his freedom.”
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