LOS ANGELES — The mayor of Arcadia has resigned and will plead guilty to illegally acting as an agent of China, officials said Monday.

Eileen Wang, who was elected mayor of the city of 56,000 in 2022, appeared in federal court Monday and was released on a $25,000 bond.

She was charged Monday with one count of acting in the U.S. as an illegal agent of a foreign government and has agreed to plead guilty later, the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles said.

“By her own admission, Eileen Wang secretly served the interests of the Chinese government,” Roman Rozhavsky, assistant director of the FBI’s counterintelligence and espionage division, said in a statement.

Prosecutors said that Wang and Yaoning “Mike” Sun promoted “pro-PRC propaganda” in the U.S. through a website titled “U.S. News Center.” PRC refers to the People’s Republic of China.

Sun pleaded guilty in October to one count of acting as a foreign agent and is serving a four-year prison sentence, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

Wang’s plea agreement admits she acted as an agent of China’s government and did not notify the U.S. attorney general as required, NBC News reported.

Story Date: June 4, 2026