LOS ANGELES — The mayor of the Los Angeles-area city of Arcadia has resigned and will plead guilty to illegally acting as an agent of China, officials said Monday.
Eileen Wang, who was elected mayor of the city of 56,000 in 2022, appeared in federal court Monday and was released on a $25,000 bond.
She was charged Monday with one count of acting in the U.S. as an illegal agent of a foreign government and has agreed to plead guilty later, the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles said.
Prosecutors said that Wang and Yaoning “Mike” Sun promoted “pro-PRC propaganda” in the U.S. through a website titled “U.S. News Center.”
Sun pleaded guilty in October to one count of acting as a foreign agent and is serving a four-year prison sentence, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Chen was sentenced to 20 months in prison in November 2024 after he pleaded guilty to bribery and acting as an unregistered agent of China.
Arcadia is a city in Southern California’s San Gabriel Valley around 13 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. »