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California Mayor Worked for Chinese Government, Exposing China’s Deep Influence in America

A Southern California mayor has pleaded guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the People’s Republic of China, according to an announcement by the Department of Justice.  

The 58-year-old Eileen Wang was elected to the five-person Arcadia city council in November 2022, where the mayor is selected on a rotating basis. She resigned Monday.

During her time in office Wang communicated with multiple now-charged illegal agents such as Yaoning “Mike” Sun, 65, who is currently serving a four-year federal prison sentence and John Chen, a high-level member of the PRC intelligence apparatus, who was sentenced in November 2024 to 20 months in federal prison. 

According to the Department of Justice, Wang and her then-fiancé Sun “worked together to operate the U.S. News Center, a website that purported to be a news source for the local Chinese American community. Wang and Sun received and executed directives from PRC government officials to post pro-PRC content on the website.”

“By her own admission, Eileen Wang secretly served the interests of the Chinese government,” said Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI’s Counterintelligence and........

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