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former california mayor secretly worked for china ex arcadia mayor eileen wang pleads guilty in propaganda case tied to beijing
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- Eileen Wang, former mayor of Arcadia, California, pleaded guilty to acting as an illegal foreign agent for China.
- Between 2020 and 2022, she disseminated Chinese propaganda via a website called 'U.S. News Center'.
- She faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.
- Her ex-fiancé Yaoning 'Mike' Sun was sentenced to four years for similar activities.
- Wang was elected to the Arcadia City Council in November 2022.