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Chinese agent SoCal mayor enters plea in bombshell espionage case

New York Post·Katie Jerkovich·3 days ago
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Disgraced former Arcadia mayor Eileen Wang entered her plea today in federal court following the bombshell admission that she was a spy for China. Wang pleaded guilty on Friday after taking a plea deal with the Department of Justice, admitting that she had acted as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), ABC7 reported. Wang agreed with prosecutors that she worked with the PRC to boost propaganda with a fake news website on US soil between 2020 and 2022. She was elected to the city council in Arcadia — a city in the San Gabriel Valley within LA County — in November 2022. Disgraced former Arcadia mayor Eileen Wang entered her guilty plea today that she was a spy for China. Mona Shafer Edwards / BACKGRID Wang, 58, worked with her then-fiancé, Yaoning “Mike” Sun , on a website called “U.S. News Center,” which claimed to be a news source for Chinese Americans, according to court documents. But in reality, the pair were carrying out Beijing’s orders through the site.…

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