A mayor of a city in Southern California has agreed to plead guilty to a charge of acting as a foreign agent of the Chinese government, US officials said on Monday. Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, was charged in April to a single felony count of acting in the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign government, the US Attorney's Office in the Central District of California said on Monday.
The charge carries a maximum term of 10 years in prison in the US. A19-page plea deal was unsealed with the charging document on Monday. Wang resigned as mayor within hours of her case being made public, Arcadia City Council's website showed. She was elected to a five-person city council in November 2022 and assumed the position of mayor in February, on a rotating basis.
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