Thomas Zhao, CCP spy in US navy, has pleaded guilty in US, and will be sentenced to 20 years in jail.
This is a rightful punishment to a CCP spy who betrayed everyone, including his race to conduct espionage activities on behalf of fascist CCP.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-navy-service-member-pleads-guilty-transmitting...
Between August 2021 and at least May 2023, Zhao admitted receiving at least $14,866 in at least 14 separate bribes from the intelligence officer.
Summary of Thomas Zhao's espionage activities in US Navy,
- From January 2016 to August 2016, he was a self-employed travel agent in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County.
- In April 2017, he joined the U.S. Navy.
- In May 2020, he entered American Military University in Killeen, Texas, USA to pursue a bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity.
- On August 12, 2021, a conspirator instructed him to gather information about a large-scale military exercise in the Indo-Pacific region. On August 13, 2021, while on San Clemente Island in Los Angeles County, he took a photo of a diagram called Large Scale Exercise 2021 Pacific NFC CONOPS, which was marked controlled unclassified information (CUI). On August 14, 2021, he sent the photo to a Chinese intelligence officer. On August 16, 2021, he took 12 photos of computer screens that displayed operation orders of U.S. military training exercises.
- The Chinese intelligence officer sent him ¥7,406.8 ($1,157.76) on November 1, 2021 and ¥5,000 ($781.56) on November 6, 2021. On November 17, 2021, while on Port Hueneme, he took five photos of diagrams and blueprints outlining the electrical system in the Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (GATOR) storage that housed the GATOR systems located at a U.S. military base in Okinawa, Japan. Each document was marked unclassified and for official use only.
- On January 14, 2022, he received ¥24,685 ($3,885.69) from the Chinese intelligence officer.
- On June 28, 2022, he received ¥3,500 ($522.01) from the Chinese intelligence officer.
- On August 29, 2022, he received ¥3,500 ($522.01) from the Chinese intelligence officer.
- The Chinese intelligence officer sent him ¥14,000 ($2,011.81) on September 7, 2022 and ¥3,500 ($522.01) on September 29, 2022.
- On October 17, 2022, he sent to the Chinese intelligence officer 16 files that contained sensitive operations security (OPSEC) information from the U.S. Navy that were marked controlled unclassified information (CUI). The officer sent him ¥4,00 ($551.72) on October 27, 2022, ¥10,000 ($1,393.65) on November 25, 2022, ¥4,000 ($627.23) on November 26, 2022 and ¥4,500 ($663.08) on January 10, 2023.
- In February 2023, he became a training instructor at the U.S. Naval Construction Group 1 in Port Hueneme. The Chinese intelligence officer sent him ¥8,500 ($1,261.33) on February 2, 2023, ¥3,500 ($502.84) on February 27, 2023 and ¥3,500 ($508.66) on March 28, 2023.
- On August 2, 2023, Federal Bureau of Investigation special agents arrested him.
- He was 26 years old when he was arraigned on August 3, 2023 in Los Angeles. He pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and receipt of a bribe by a public official.
- Zhao pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 8, 2024. Zhao faces a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in prison – five years for the conspiracy count and 15 years for the bribery charge.
Such is life for being a CCP spy.
More of them will meet the same fate.
Source:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-navy-service-member-pleads-guilty-transmitting...
https://conandaily.com/2023/08/05/wenheng-zhao-biography-13-things-about-us-navy...