Eileen Wang resigned from her position as mayor of Arcadia after pleading guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government.The former official admitted to operating a propaganda website between 2020 and 2022 that targeted the Chinese American community with misinformation.Federal prosecutors stated that the website promoted narratives denying human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region of China while reporting engagement data to handlers.Following her guilty plea, she now faces up to ten years in federal prison while the city council searches for her replacement.