California mayor quits, to plead guilty as agent for Chinese gov't

LOS ANGELES — 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 Monday. 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 favorable to Beijing, without prior notification to the U.S. government as required by law. READ: Alice Guo loses cool after House shows docu on Chinese spy The […]... Keep on reading: California mayor quits, to plead guilty as agent for Chinese gov't

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