The mayor of Arcadia, California, a heavily Chinese-American suburb of Los Angeles, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of acting as a foreign agent of China, spreading propaganda on behalf of Beijing, U.S. officials said on Monday.
Within hours ?of the case being made public, Eileen Wang, 58, resigned from Arcadia’s city council, along with the ?position of mayor ?she assumed in February on a rotating basis, according to the city manager’s ?office.
She appeared briefly before a federal magistrate judge who instructed attorneys to agree to a date for a future hearing when Wang will formally enter her plea. Bond was set at $25,000. Monday’s proceeding was conducted through a ?Mandarin interpreter.
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