Eileen Wang, elected to the Arcadia City Council in 2022, was charged with acting in the U.S. as an illegal agent of a foreign government.
Eileen Wang, 58, elected to the Arcadia City Council in November 2022, was charged with one count of acting in the U.S. as an illegal agent of a foreign government,Ken Paxton sues Netflix for ‘spying’ on users and tracking data Wang agreed to plead guilty to the felony charge, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, in a related filing.
“Individuals elected to public office in the United States should act only for the people of the United States that they represent,” Assistant Attorney General John A. Eisenberg said in a statement. Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky, who is with the bureau’s Counterintelligence and Espionage Division, said Wang “secretly served the interests of the Chinese government,” adding that people who act on behalf of foreign governments “to influence our democracy will be identified, investigated, and brought to justice.
” According to the DOJ, Wang and Yaoning “Mike” Sun worked with Chinese government officials between 2020 and 2022 to promote pro-China propaganda in the U.S. Sun is serving a four-year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty in 2025 to acting as an illegal foreign agent. Prosecutors said that in June 2021, a Chinese official sent Wang and others prewritten articles through the encrypted messaging app WeChat, including material denying allegations of genocide and forced labor in Xinjiang. that stated, “China’s Stance on the Xinjiang Issue – There is no genocide in Xinjiang; there is no such thing as ‘forced labor’ in any production activity, including cotton production.
Spreading such rumor to do defame China, destroy Xinjiang’s safety and stability, weaken local economy, suppress China’s development. ” Court documents also allege Wang communicated in 2021 with John Chen, described by prosecutors as a high-level member of China’s intelligence apparatus with ties to Chinese President Xi Jinping. According to the DOJ, Wang asked Chen to share an article from her website, writing, “This is what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants to send.
”Chen was sentenced in 2024 to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty in New York to acting as an illegal agent of China and conspiring to bribe a public official. According to her plea agreement, Wang admitted she did not notify the U.S. attorney general that she was acting as an agent of the Chinese government and failed to disclose that some content on her website had been posted at the direction of Chinese officials.
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