Ex-JBLM soldier pleads guilty to leaking US military secrets to China; offered classified data to agents; faces 10 years in jail, fine
A former US Army Sergeant, Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 31, who was last stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) in Washington, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in a Seattle federal court to attempting to share classified military information with the Chinese government.Schmidt admitted to two felony charges — attempting to deliver national defense information and unlawfully retaining…