Crime & Justice

Disaffected Ex-Army Sergeant Tried Brazenly to Sell Secrets to China, Feds Say

‘SOMETHING I NEED TO TELL YOU’

Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 29, complained of having learned “some really terrible things about the American government,” then allegedly went rogue.

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