{"id":16278,"date":"2025-10-21T18:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/16278\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:30:11","slug":"california-man-sun-yaoning-to-plead-guilty-to-acting-as-agent-for-chinas-government-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/16278\/","title":{"rendered":"California man Sun Yaoning to plead guilty to acting as agent for China\u2019s government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A California man has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government in Southern California while working as a campaign adviser for a local politician.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sun Yaoning, also known as Mike Sun, is expected to appear in court in Los Angeles on Monday to enter his plea under a deal with federal prosecutors, according to a copy of the agreement available in online court records.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It was signed by Sun, his lawyer and a prosecutor earlier this month. If the plea is accepted by a judge, Sun could face a maximum sentence of up to 10 years in prison, the agreement says.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The US attorney\u2019s office in Los Angeles declined to comment on the deal. Sun\u2019s lawyer, Adam Olin, also declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Under the agreement, Sun acknowledges acting as a foreign agent on behalf of the People\u2019s Republic of China from 2022 to 2024 without notifying the US attorney general as required by law.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sun is a Chinese citizen living in the US legally, the US attorney\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Footage referred to in the criminal complaint against Yaoning \u201cMike\u201d Sun shows an individual, thought to be Chen Jun, in Los Angeles. Photo: X\/jenniferzeng97\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0f6d8b18-5de3-4e63-8835-b5d32e34f2ae_54db608b.jpg\" title=\"Footage referred to in the criminal complaint against Yaoning \u201cMike\u201d Sun shows an individual, thought to be Chen Jun, in Los Angeles. Photo: X\/jenniferzeng97\"\/>Footage referred to in the criminal complaint against Yaoning \u201cMike\u201d Sun shows an individual, thought to be Chen Jun, in Los Angeles. Photo: X\/jenniferzeng97<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California man has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14269,5095,14320,14319,14325,7,9,8,14324,14323,14267,14268,13912,47,14321,1009,14322],"class_list":["post-16278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-adam-olin","tag-arcadia","tag-arcadia-city-council","tag-arcadia-city-hall","tag-beijing","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-chen-jun","tag-chinese-government","tag-dominic-lazzaretto","tag-eileen-wang","tag-joe-biden","tag-los-angeles","tag-peoples-republic-of-china","tag-southern-california","tag-sun-yaoning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}