Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government, CNN reported.
Wang was charged in April with one count of acting in the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign government.
She allegedly did the bidding of Chinese officials, like sharing articles favorable to Beijing, without previous notification to the US government as the law requires.
Wang, 58, was elected in November 2022 to a five-person city council.
FBI Director Kash Patel has shared an update on X, saying the FBI and its partners will keep working to “root out this kind of influence in American institutions”.
Wang has agreed to resign from office and plead guilty, with a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.
