Navy Sailor accepted bribes from China for U.S. intelligence, only received 27 months in prison, $5,500 in fines

A traitor received less of a sentence than many January 6th Patriots....

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this week that a United States Navy sailor was sentenced to over two years in prison for transmitting sensitive intelligence to a Chinese military agent.

The 26-year-old petty officer, Wenheng Zhao, pled guilty in October 2023 to accepting bribes from the Chinese in exchange for non-public U.S. intelligence that he collected while performing his duties, according to the DOJ. Zhao was dishonorably discharged and subsequently sentenced to 27 months in federal prison with $5,500 in fines for his crimes.

The Daily Caller reports on the specifics of Zhao’s actions:

Zhao held special security clearance and used it to collect intelligence regarding the U.S. Navy’s “operational security, military trainings and exercises, and critical infrastructure,” according to the DOJ. Some of the intelligence Zhao collected included plans for Naval exercises in the Pacific region and technical layouts for radar systems in Japan.

Zhao then transmitted back to Beijing using “sophisticated encrypted communication methods” in exchange for bribery payments. He received a total of $14,866 in over a dozen separate payments from Beijing from August 2021 to May 2023, according to the DOJ.

Experts fume that Zhao’s acts of espionage and treason with an American adversary is receiving too light of a punishment. The administration, however, is spinning the arrest in a positive light.

“Make no mistake, the PRC [People’s Republic of China] is engaged in an aggressive effort to undermine the national security of the U.S. and its partners. Zhao chose to betray the oath he took to our country and put others at risk by providing sensitive U.S. information to a PRC intelligence official.” Larissa L. Knapp, FBI National Security branch executive assistant director, said in a statement Monday. “The Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly shown it...

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Judge, Prosecutor, and Defense Lawyer All Agree Ray Epps Is a Victim of MAGA Conspiracy Theories; Gets Probation, No Jail Time

Ray Epps, the J6er who was repeatedly caught on tape urging Trump supporters to “go into the Capitol,” was sentenced Tuesday to just a year of probation for his actions during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.

Last September, Epps, a former Oath Keeper from Arizona, was charged with a single misdemeanor count of disruptive or disorderly conduct in a restricted area in U.S. District Court in Washington, despite his lead role in orchestrating chaos on that day. The charge carries a maximum punishment of a year in prison.

Prosecutors had requested six months of prison time, but the judge took into consideration Epps’ alleged contrition, and apparent cooperation with “congressional investigators,” according to Politico.

In addition to the probation, Epps will have to pay $500 in restitution, and do 100 hours of community service. Epps never spent any time in jail and was allowed to attend the virtual hearing from home.

Gateway Pundit reported that Epps was initially scheduled to appear in person on Tuesday at 10 AM at the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington D.C for his sentencing. Then yesterday, according to the Court Docket, the hearing was modified to a “hybrid hearing”

According to Gateway Pundit, “Epps was going to be served with the lawsuit at the courthouse during his sentencing.” Process servers were hired by the Plaintiff and Gateway Pundit reporters planned to be there to capture the moment Epps was served on video. This plan, according to the conservative news outlet “was all discussed yesterday in private phone calls.”

“Then like magic, Ray Epps’ Fairy Godmother changed his PUBLIC IN-PERSON sentencing hearing to a REMOTE TELEPHONIC sentencing hearing,” Gateway Pundit noted.

Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. district court in Washington noted that “Epps knowingly joined a mob and entered a walled-off area on the day of attack—but then confessed to law enforcement, helped congressional investigators, and saw his life upended by the conspiracy theories.”

Epps’ activities at the U.S. Capitol on January 5 and 6, 2021, have led many on the right to believe he was acting as a federal informant. In addition to being caught on tape urging fellow rallygoers to enter and even “storm” the Capitol, the former Marine was among the first rioters to breach police barricades and can be seen on video agitating on the restricted grounds of the U.S. Capitol for over an hour.

Anthime Gionet, also known as “Baked Alaska,” a right-wing influencer formerly associated with the “alt right,” was one of several people who filmed Epps on the evening of January 5, 2021 outside BLM Plaza as he told Trump supporters “we need to go into the Capitol!”

Gionet was interviewed in the first of a multi-part “Truth in Media” series on the January 6 riot that aired last fall.. He is the one who started the “Fed! Fed! Fed!” chant that went viral on social media.

At first, Gionet said he was amused by Epps’ exhortation to breach the Capitol, and yelled ‘let’s go!’ in response, but after he saw him repeat the line several times to different groups that night, he became convinced the “boomer” was an FBI plant and was up to no good.

The influencer told host Lara Logan that that viral moment felt “spiritual” to him at the time.

“That was the spirit moving. That was God saying ‘somethings up here. Watch out, there’s something going on.’ And that’s what I felt in my heart as a believer, truly,” he said.

Shortly before midnight, Epps took a conciliatory tone with Gionet, telling him they share a common dislike for Black Lives Matter and antifa.

“I stood ’em down myself with three Army vets in Queen Creek, Arizona,” Epps said.

“That’s where I live!” Gionet exclaimed. “Are you my neighbor?!”

After more friendly banter, Epps said “”we’re not here to fight man. He then leaned in and whispered “we’re here to storm the Capitol,” and added: “I’m not kidding.”

In Part 2 of the Truth in Media series, Gionet shared an intriguing video from a “Stop the Steal” rally in Phoenix after the 2020 election that showed Epps appearing to surveil him.

In the video, Epps can be seen pacing back and forth a short distance from Gionet.

“He looked over in his direction repeatedly,” Logan said. “By our count, 13 times. Then Epps stopped and pointed his camera right at him, snagging a photo before putting his phone down and walking away, only to emerge on camera a minute later, taking another photo [of Gionet] in...