Former U.S. intelligence analyst sentenced to 7 years for selling 'sensitive' information

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 23, 2025 6:51 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

A erstwhile U.S. service quality serviceman has been handed a seven-year situation condemnation aft selling "sensitive" defence information.

The U.S. Department of Justice said successful a quality release that Korbein Schultz was sentenced to 84 months successful situation connected Wednesday "for conspiring to cod and transmit nationalist defence accusation ... to an idiosyncratic helium believed was affiliated with the Chinese government."

According to the Justice Department, Schultz sent "dozens of delicate U.S. subject documents" to a interaction successful China, betwixt May 2022 and March 2024. It says these included a U.S. service papers connected lessons learned from the warfare successful Ukraine, immoderate method manuals, arsenic good arsenic accusation astir U.S. subject satellites and rocket defence systems.

He was paid $42,000 US for these efforts, according to authorities.

In August 2024, Schultz pleaded guilty to charges that had been laid retired successful a prior indictment against him.

In a connection connected Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Schultz "betrayed" an oath to support the U.S. "for a payout," which she said enactment some the U.S. military and work members astatine risk.

"The Justice Department remains vigilant against China's efforts to people our subject and volition guarantee that those who leak subject secrets walk years down bars," Bondi said.