A U.S. Department of State employee was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for conspiring to transmit classified national defense information to individuals he believed were working for the Chinese government.

Michael Charles Schena, 42, of Alexandria, Virginia, was handed a 48-month sentence by U.S. District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff in the Eastern District of Virginia. According to court documents, Schena began communicating in April 2022 with individuals he met online who posed as employees of international consulting firms but whom he believed were connected to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). He provided them sensitive…

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