“By her own admission, Eileen Wang secretly served the interests of the Chinese government,” officials say. She was elected mayor of Arcadia in 2022 and has resigned.
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 says she admits she acted as an agent of China’s government and did not notify the U.S. attorney general as required.
The agreement says Wang and Sun “received and executed directives from PRC government officials to post pro-PRC content on the website” and sometimes sought permission from Chinese government officials to post content.
B-but … she resigned! How can she be in jail if she resigned? Resigning absolves politicians of any and all crimes!
How high was the Dow?
Meanwhile all the Russian agents are working in the White House and Congress.
Mossad
Tcool now do Israel
Wang and Krasnov share a lot in common. They should share the same cell.
Would still take her over a Republican
I mean, I’m not saying I agree but I get where you’re coming from!
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she acted as an agent of China’s government and did not notify the U.S. attorney general as required.
The crime is not the speech. And propaganda, even foreign propaganda, is not illegal. The crime is being an unregistered foreign agent.
If you do work for a foreign government in the United States, you have to register as such with the US government.
And especially you have to disclose it if you work for the US government at the same time. It’s very basic conflict of interest stuff.
And just for clarity’s sake, I have contracts with local governments, and in the process of initially getting and subsequently renewing them, I fill out a bunch of forms about whether or not I have relationships (paraphrasing) with numerous countries, Iran, Belarus, Russia. Oddly enough, no China.
This being said, I don’t know for sure, but I’m curious if not only was it a lie by omission, but she knowingly submitted false statements via these forms or similar.
It seems like a relatively elegant system, you’re totally allowed to be a foreign agent/diplomat/ambassador in the US, you just need to be upfront about it. A Spy may in fact fill very similar roles, or work toward similar goals, but the major difference is that a spy is someone who does it in secret.
I can’t think of the last time there was some actual spy drama In the news, this is all pretty novel to me.
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Apparently there’s a separate count of bribery in this case, so yes. But you can be guilty of the foreign agent crime if you take direction from the foreign government, even if no money changes hands.
As a secondary issue, the US does not have free speech. Maybe on paper but not in practice
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Not based. She’s a piece of shit.
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