The mayor of Arcadia, Eileen Wang agreed to plead guilty Monday to a federal charge of acting as an illegal agent and promoting Chinese propaganda.reported the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
In a statement, the DOJ said that Wang was charged in federal court of acting as an illegal agent in favor of China.
The mayor of Arcadia, California, has been charged in federal court docket with acting as an unlawful agent of the Folks’ Republic of China (PRC), the Justice Department offered at the present time.
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Wang, 58, the mayor of Arcadia, a city in Los Angeles County, worked with her then-fiancé to run an Internet site aimed at Chinese Americans. that spread propaganda from the government of China, or the Accepted Republic of China (PRC).
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According to DOJ investigators, the mayor of Arcadia she preferred to act in the interest of spreading Chinese propaganda rather than doing so in the interests of the residents who elected her.
In a related presentation, Wang agreed to plead guilty to the felony charge, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.and was expected to appear in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles.
Since last month, the mayor of Arcadia would have closed an agreement with the prosecution, which was made public this Monday, May 11.
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“In our country, people who covertly act at the behest of foreign governments undermine our democracy“stated First Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California, Invoice Essayli.
“This plea agreement It is the latest success in our determination to defend the homeland against China’s attempts of corrupting our institutions,” he added.
According to Essayli, Wang agreed to plead guilty and resign from public officein addition to admitting to having acted as a foreign agent from 2020 to 2022.
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“Following instructions from the government of the Republic of China, he coordinated with individuals to promote China’s interests by spreading pro-China propaganda in the United States“reiterated the first assistant United States attorney in California.
Wang published PRC-approved propaganda content on a website called: “US News Middle”.
In the documents declassified this Monday it is mentioned that Wang sometimes sought approval from Chinese government officials to spread the content preferred by the Asian giant.
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Prosecutors said the defendant never disclosed on the website how much of its content had been published by order of members of the Chinese government.
In his plea agreement, Wang said that from late 2020 to 2022 he worked together with Yaoning “Mike” Sun, 65, of Chino Hills, California.under the direction and eye of Chinese officials to promote the propaganda of the Asian country.
Sun is serving a four-year sentence in federal prison after pleading guilty in October 2025 to acting as an unlawful agent of a foreign government.
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Wang was elected in November 2022 to the Arcadia City Councila government body composed of five people, of which the mayor is elected on a rotating basis.
In a news bulletin, Arcadia city officials said Wang resigned from her position Monday, leaving the mayor’s position vacant, and that At an upcoming meeting, the City Council will elect a mayor and an interim mayor from the remaining council members.
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