The mayor of Arcadia, California, was charged with acting as an illegal agent for China after allegedly helping promote Beijing-backed propaganda in the United States.
Eileen Wang, 58, elected to the Arcadia City Council in November 2022, was charged with one count of acting in the U.S. as an illegal agent of a foreign government, according to the Department of Justice.
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Wang agreed to plead guilty to the felony charge, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, in a related filing.
She is expected to make her initial appearance Tuesday afternoon in federal court in downtown Los Angeles and plead guilty in the coming weeks.
“Individuals elected to public office in the United States should act only for the people of the United States that they represent,” Assistant Attorney General John A. Eisenberg said in a statement.
FBI Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky, who is with the bureau’s Counterintelligence and
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