California mayor Eileen Wang resigns, agrees to Chinese agent guilty plea
Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, California, resigned Monday after the U.S. Department of Justice announced she had agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government.
TL;DR
- Eileen Wang, mayor of Arcadia, California, resigned.
- Her resignation came after the U.S. Department of Justice announced her agreement to plead guilty.
- The federal charge pertains to acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government.