A Southern California mayor has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government, and has resigned from her city position, officials said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, was charged in April with one count of acting in the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign government. She was accused of doing the bidding of Chinese officials, such as sharing articles favourable to Beijing, without prior notification to the US government as required by law.<\/p>\n
The 58-year-old was elected in November 2022 to a five-person city council, from which the mayor is selected on a rotating basis.<\/p>\n
City manager Dominic Lazzaretto said in a news release that no city finances or staff were involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to be clear: this investigation concerns individual conduct, and the charges are for conduct that ceased after Ms. Wang was sworn into office in December 2022,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Federal officials said she has agreed to plead guilty to the charge, which comes with a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Southern California mayor has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5095,14325,7,9,8,14323,130461,14268,130463,47,14321,435,130462,130460],"class_list":["post-311232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-arcadia","tag-beijing","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-chinese-government","tag-chinese-american-community","tag-eileen-wang","tag-john-chen","tag-los-angeles","tag-peoples-republic-of-china","tag-united-states","tag-us-news-centre","tag-yaoning-mike-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311232","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=311232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}