Xiaoming Zhang, Making False Statements, Alabama 2023

Xiaoming Zhang, a 69-year-old civilian professor at the Air War College on Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, pleaded guilty to making false statements to a federal agent.

According to court documents, Zhang began working as an Air War College professor in July 2003. During his tenure at the AWC, Zhang would travel to China on a regular basis for work-related purposes, research, and to visit family living there.

Records indicate that Zhang met with a known foreign official working with the Shanghai Municipal Government on approximately six occasions and exchanged approximately 40 emails with him from December 2012 to January 2017.

As part of his employment at the AWC, Zhang held a ‘secret’ security clearance and attended annual security training that informed him of reporting requirements about suspicious foreign contacts and relationships with foreign government officials.

Despite being aware of these reporting requirements, Zhang failed to report the relationship with the foreign official even after he came to understand that the official was attempting to gather sensitive information from Zhang.

Zhang pleaded guilty to making false statements to a federal agent and faces a maximum of five years in prison at sentencing. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

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