The Justice Department said on Monday that Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, California, is accused of serving as an unauthorized foreign agent for China.
According to the Justice Department, Wang consented to enter a guilty plea. Beginning in late 2020, Wang and Yaoning “Mike” Sun collaborated to run U.S. News Center, a website that “purported to be a news source for the local Chinese-American community.”
In a plea deal, the Justice Department stated that Wang and Sun “received and executed directives from PRC (People’s Republic of China) government officials to post pro-PRC content on the website, and sometimes sought approval from PRC government officials to circulate other pro-PRC content.”
In November 2021, Wang attempted to disseminate a piece in which the ambassadors from China and Russia urged Americans to uphold the PRC’s “democratic rights.”
She stated:
“This is what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants to send,”
She acknowledged in her plea deal that she had failed to disclose her employment with the PRC to the attorney general.
