Courts/Rulings & Lawsuits

Second federal appeals court rejects Trump's no-bond immigration detentions, deepening circuit split

An Atlanta-based appeals court has rejected a no-bond policy implemented by the Trump administration for people in immigration proceedings, further deepening a divide among federal appeals courts about whether people can be kept in detention while their cases are pending. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the 2-1 ruling Wednesday.

Associated Press

Jury sides with LAPD in lawsuit over shooting that killed girl at Burlington coat store

A Los Angeles police officer was not liable for the 2021 death of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta when a bullet he fired while rushing to confront a suspect went through the wall of a North Hollywood store changing room where she was hiding, a jury decided Thursday.

Los Angeles Times

Judges warn of mounting strain on California courts at defense counsel seminar

One of the conference’s central themes was the growing strain on trial courts statewide as judges grapple with rising civil filings, staffing shortages and increasingly contentious discovery battles. Assistant Presiding Judge Ricardo R. Ocampo of the Los Angeles County Superior Court opened a judicial panel by describing the dramatic increase in filings confronting the state’s largest trial court system.

Daily Journal

April Securities Litigation Brief: A new Enforcement Director, a defense verdict and Ninth Circuit news

Developments in securities litigation move fast, and not all of them matter equally. Each month, Alto Litigation curates and summarizes the cases, rulings, and regulatory actions most likely to shape risk and strategy in the months ahead. On April 8, the Securities and Exchange Commission appointed David Woodstock as the new director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement.

JD Supra

Ordinary tort principles of proximate cause apply to murder

Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal has upheld the murder conviction of a man accused of beating an infirm homeless man with a brick and stabbing him in the throat in an unprovoked attack allegedly fueled by a drug-induced psychosis, rejecting the defendant’s assertion that he did not cause the death of the victim, who was noted to have already been in “very bad” shape before the assault such that he was likely to “die very soon.”

Metropolitan News-Enterprise

Judge's 'racist, sexist' jokes did not undermine death case

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday affirmed the denial of a death row inmate’s federal petition for habeas corpus based on allegations that the ex-Orange Superior Court judge presiding over his trial violated due process principles by making what the petitioner characterized as racist and sexist jokes, describing the crime as “horrendous” and involving “dastardly conduct,” and quipping that “everyone should believe in the death penalty.”

Metropolitan News-Enterprise

Meta asks California judge to throw out landmark social media addiction verdict

Meta Platforms has asked a Los Angeles judge to throw out a jury’s verdict finding the company liable for a woman’s depression in a landmark trial over whether the company has harmed young users by designing its platforms to be addictive. In the filing, Meta asked the judge who oversaw the trial to overturn the verdict and rule in its favor or order a new trial.

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly

Judge to rule on legitimacy of SoCal U.S. Attorney appointment

A federal judge will assess the legitimacy of Bill Essayli's role as the U.S. Attorney for Southern California on Tuesday. The Federal Public Defender's Office has challenged Essayli's appointment in three ongoing criminal cases, arguing that he has overstayed his interim role. Essayli, a former state assemblyman, was appointed as interim U.S. Attorney by Attorney General Pam Bondi and refers to himself as the "acting" U.S. Attorney.

KFI AM 640

Lawmakers may continue to inspect ICE detention centers, appeals court rules

A federal appeals court on Friday required the Trump administration to continue allowing lawmakers to inspect immigration detention facilities without advance notice, ruling unanimously that the impromptu visits posed minimal problems for the government. The decision by a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit preserved, for now, the ability of Democrats in Congress to make unannounced visits to detention centers and check on the conditions inside.

New York Times

Judge Lawrence Riff has an ambitious aim to tame discovery abuses

By any measure, civil discovery is supposed to be the engine of truth in American litigation. In practice, however, over many years it has become something else entirely: bloated, combative, expensive and often untethered from the merits of the case. Now, a coalition led by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lawrence P. Riff is attempting something far more ambitious than another round of calls for civility.

Daily Journal

Ninth Circuit orders new trial over deadly kidnapping in Nevada

Errors by a lower court were significant enough to warrant a new trial for a Pennsylvania man convicted over a woman’s death in the Nevada desert, a Ninth Circuit panel decided Friday. A jury convicted John Matthew Chapman in 2024 after an eight-day trial, finding him guilty of kidnapping resulting in death. Serving a life term, Chapman appealed, arguing the judge improperly allowed his confession to reach jurors and wrongly denied a postverdict motion for acquittal.

Courthouse News Service

Amazon MGM Studios executive solicited kickbacks for post-production contracts, lawsuit alleges

An Amazon MGM Studios executive allegedly solicited kickbacks from an aspiring vendor in exchange for post-production contract awards on shows, according to a recently filed lawsuit. Joe Eckardt, owner and president of Hollywood-based postproduction services firm Unbreakable Post, alleged that the studio’s head of postproduction, Frank Salinas, told him during a business lunch in 2023 that Salinas could “ensure” Unbreakable Post would be included as an approved vendor to bid on Amazon-affiliated projects.

Los Angeles Times

Trump administration sues California over law that bans federal agents from covering their faces

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has filed a federal lawsuit against California over the state’s new law that bans most law enforcement officers, including federal agents, from covering their faces while on duty. The “No Secret Police Act” law is set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2026. It was passed as a response to immigration raids in California where federal agents wore masks while making arrests.

KSBW Monterey-Salinas

L.A. judge admonished again for misconduct

The state Commission on Judicial Performance publicly admonished Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Thomas J. Griego on Wednesday for mistreating self-represented small claims litigants and mishandling administrative duties, marking his second public discipline in less than two years. The commission found Griego interrupted litigants, made disparaging remarks and twice walked off the bench during hearings. 

Daily Journal

Black former LACo DA tentatively settles racial discrimination suit

A Black lawyer formerly with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has tentatively settled his racial discrimination suit against the county. Former Deputy District Attorney Adewale Oduye said in his Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that his frustration with management for allegedly ignoring his pleas for reform prompted him to post a dozen essays.

MyNewsLA

Thousand Oaks man accused of labor trafficking 14-year-old in clothing resale scheme

A Thousand Oaks man faces up to 14 years in state prison following allegations that he isolated a 14-year-old middle schooler, forced him to work under the influence of narcotics, and abandoned him on a Los Angeles freeway, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. Brandon Holguin, 26, allegedly targeted the victim at a thrift store months before the abduction, the DA's office said.

Fox11 Los Angeles

LA County vocational nurse charged in alleged $1.5M Medi-Cal fraud scheme

A Los Angeles County-based vocational nurse was arrested last Friday on charges referred to as "white-collar crimes" by state prosecutors, after they say she stole more than $1.5 million from Medi-Cal. Mariafe Concepcion Garcia, 58, was arrested by the California Attorney General's Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud on May 1, after a felony warrant was issued for her arrest by a Los Angeles-based superior court judge on April 27.

NBC4 Los Angeles

U.S. attorney's office filed 83 border-related cases this week

Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of California filed 83 border-related cases this week, including charges of bringing in aliens for financial gain, reentering the U.S. after deportation, and importation of controlled substances. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California is the fourth-busiest federal district, largely due to a high volume of border-related crimes.

U.S. Attorney’s Office Press Release

GM just paid a record penalty for breaking California privacy law

General Motors agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties for selling driving data of hundreds of thousands of California motorists to data brokers, allegedly without their consent. The settlement, announced Friday, is the largest ever for violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act, a 2018 law that requires companies to tell consumers about how their data is shared and to respect requests to stop the sharing. 

CalMatters

Federal drug raid in Los Angeles targets open-air drug market in MacArthur Park (Video)

Fox News correspondent Matt Finn reports live from Los Angeles on a massive federal drug raid in MacArthur Park, a notorious open-air drug market controlled by gangs. Agents seized 40 pounds of fentanyl, enough for 190,000 fatal doses, valued at $8-10 million. U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli criticizes California's failed drug policies after the operation. 

Fox News

Santa Clara County DA barred from retrying pro-Palestinian Stanford protesters

In an unusual move amid a contentious election cycle, a South Bay judge has barred Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen and his office from retrying a vandalism case against a group of pro-Palestinian Stanford student protesters due to a conflict of interest. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Kelley Paul issued the rare order Thursday afternoon recusing Rosen and his entire office from the case.

KQED

Prosecutors oppose move to put off Goldstein sentencing

Federal prosecutors are claiming that SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein may have violated his pretrial release conditions when he racked up over $1.7 million in gambling income last year, telling a federal judge not to delay sentencing for the famed U.S. Supreme Court lawyer.

Law360

DOJ sees fallout after push to prosecute former FBI director James Comey

More than a half-dozen prosecutors have been demoted or pushed out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia due to fallout from the Justice Department’s push to prosecute former FBI director James B. Comey, leaving a key prosecutorial office understaffed and weakened. 

Washington Post

Musician dumped evidence of 14-year-old's murder near Lake Cachuma, prosecutors allege

A Los Angeles County-based musician allegedly dumped evidence of a Riverside County teenager’s murder off Santa Barbara’s Highway 154 near Lake Cachuma the night of her murder last year and in the months following, prosecutors say. David Anthony Burke, 21, who goes by his stage name D4vd, was arrested and charged last month in Los Angeles County Superior Court with the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

Noozhawk

Three Tennessee men indicted on robbery, kidnapping, and conspiracy charges related to $6 million cryptocurrency robbery spree throughout Bay Area and Los Angeles

A federal grand jury has indicted Elijah Armstrong, Nino Chindavanh, and Jayden Rucker on Conspiracy to Commit Hobbs Act Robbery, Conspiracy to Commit Kidnapping, Attempted Hobbs Act Robbery, and Attempted Kidnapping relating to a violent robbery spree targeting cryptocurrency owners. Armstrong and Rucker were arrested in Los Angeles on December 31, 2025, and Chindavanh was arrested on December 22, 2025 in Sunnyvale.  

U.S. Attorney’s Office Press Release

Inside LAUSD's alleged $22-million money-laundering scheme, 'the largest' in district history

Over four-years, a Los Angeles school district manager enriched herself with $3 million in kickbacks by working with a tech company executive to deliver $22 million in work, according to allegations in a lawsuit filed by the school district. She gave high scores to secure contracts, signed off on increasing payouts to the firm and used shell companies to launder money siphoned from the contracts, the suit said.

DNYUZ

Out of hundreds of suspects, 42 arrested in Inland Empire child sex exploitation bust

A person wanted for child sexual assault, two corporate vice presidents and a child psychologist were among 42 people arrested in a sweeping child sexual exploitation bust in the Inland Empire, authorities announced Monday. The effort, dubbed Operation Volcano, identified more than 500 suspected distributors of child sexual abuse images as part of an effort to dismantle regional networks exploiting minors, according to the Riverside County district attorney’s office.

Los Angeles Times

Judge pushes preliminary hearing until June for singer D4vd in teen's killing

A judge on Tuesday pushed the start date for a preliminary hearing for singer D4vd, who is accused of killing a 14-year-old girl whose dismembered body was found in the trunk of his Tesla at a Hollywood tow yard. The hearing had been scheduled to start May 26. Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said it needed more time due to the large amount of evidence in the case.

ABC7

Ex-gubernatorial candidate Stephen Cloobeck interfered with witness in girlfriend's case

Real estate developer and former gubernatorial candidate Stephen Cloobeck is facing felony charges for allegedly threatening victims in his fiancee’s criminal case that involved accusations that she stole from wealthy men across Los Angeles County. Cloobeck, 64, was arrested on Tuesday before 11 a.m. and booked at the West Hollywood station on suspicion of attempting to prevent or dissuade witnesses from testifying.

Los Angeles Times

Man withdraws guilty plea in deputy sheriff's recruit crash in Whittier

A Diamond Bar man who previously pleaded guilty to driving into a group of law enforcement trainees near Whittier, killing a Los Angeles County sheriff's recruit, withdrew from the plea deal today after a judge indicated she planned to send him to jail for a year as part of his sentence. Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez, 25, pleaded guilty last month to one felony count of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and nine felony counts of reckless driving causing injury, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

City News Service

Policy/Legal/Politics

CBS bows to pressure from Spencer Pratt over its 'comical' campaign coverage

CBS News released its full interview with Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt after he torched the network over the “comical 5-minute hit piece” it aired on him this week. Pratt had called out the outlet for filming for “over an hour” at his burned-out lot Pacific Palisades and broadcasting only snippets of the conversation, including clips from his time on MTV reality show “The Hills.”

California Post

L.A.'s back-to-back mayoral debates offered up a few surprises

L.A. voters finally got a chance this week to see how the leading candidates for mayor behave onstage with each other, and they didn’t disappoint. The back-to-back debates offered plenty of cutting moments as Mayor Karen Bass, Councilmember Nithya Raman and reality television star Spencer Pratt faced off against each other. But the two showdowns also served up a few surprises.

Los Angeles Times

Official calls for investigation into gun store linked to White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting

Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn is calling for an investigation into the store where the alleged White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman bought the firearm used in the shooting last month. Hahn’s office has officially requested that L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman launch an investigation into the Turner’s Outdoorsman store on Hawthorne Boulevard in Torrance.

KTLA

Measure to force Californians to show ID at the polls qualifies for November ballot

Californians will decide in November whether to impose new identification requirements for voting in person or by mail in the state, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber confirmed Friday in a memo sent to local elections officials.

San Francisco Chronicle

Organized retail theft down, arrests up in Fresno. DA says it's thanks to Prop. 36

Organized retail theft is down in Fresno, while arrests are up since Californians overwhelmingly approved a statewide tough-on-crime measure in 2024, according to police Chief Mindy Casto. Proposition 36 allows prosecutors to charge people convicted of certain third-time drug and theft-related offenses with a “treatment-mandated felony.” Offenders can avoid jail time by completing rehabilitation treatment, but opting out could lead to a state prison sentence.

The Fresno Bee

Fury at LA City Hall plot to deploy civilian army to replace traffic cops: 'Deadly demolition derby’

An LA City Hall plot to strip cops of powers to detain drivers for traffic violations and let civilians do it is “extremely dangerous,” top officers have warned. Council bosses on Wednesday threw weight behind watered-down plans to crack down on pre-textual traffic stops in a unanimous 14-0 ruling. The move as it stands tightens restrictions on what police can do when pulling someone over, but threatens to pave the way for radical ambitions to shift the control to non-sworn officers.

California Post

LAPD projects $1.15 billion in security costs for 2028 Olympics, memo shows

The Los Angeles Police Department estimates it will cost $1.15 billion to staff the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to a memo presented Thursday to the City Council's Budget and Finance Committee. The projection - detailed in a letter from LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell attached to the memo - is equivalent to roughly half of the department's current annual budget of about $2 billion.

ABC7

LA City Council sides with criminals over cops in brainless traffic stop ban

The Los Angeles City Council voted 14-0 to advance restrictions on police traffic stops rooted in one dangerous idea: That cops enforcing traffic laws are somehow the real threat on the streets of LA. Not the drunk driver. Not the gang member carrying an illegal gun. Not the reckless driver blowing through intersections at 90 miles per hour. The cops. Only in LA could elected officials look at street disorder and decide the problem is still too much policing.

California Post

California officials report $75M recovery, citing historic crime decline

California officials announced Wednesday that nearly $75 million in stolen goods has been recovered through coordinated law enforcement operations, as the state also reported historically low property crime rates following expanded efforts targeting organized retail theft. On May 13, 2026, the Office of Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a press release highlighting California’s recent progress in crime reduction as the state continues its coordinated efforts against organized retail theft.

Davis Vanguard

Southern California

LA agrees to boost housing and shelter options for people experiencing homelessness

Los Angeles will boost the number of housing and shelter opportunities for people experiencing homelessness and focus more on moving people inside rather than clearing encampments, under an agreement approved by a federal judge Friday. The updated agreement from a 2022 settlement is the latest step in a long-running legal saga focused on the city's response to the homelessness crisis. 

LAist

LA deputies feel County budget pinch with temporary restrictions on overtime and spending

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies have been told to reduce unnecessary overtime and delay any non-critical spending until the Department’s budget is replenished when the new fiscal year begins in July.

NBC4

LA County to bolster protections for hospitals amid ICE enforcement

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion on Tuesday that it says will strengthen protections for patients, visitors and staff at county-operated medical facilities, a decision prompted by the Trump administration's ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration.

City News Service

Karen Bass says no to needles as syringe handouts continue in drug-ravaged MacArthur Park

Hoards of junkies continue to line up for free needles - distributed out of a black Jeep circling MacArthur Park - less than a week after Mayor Karen Bass distanced herself from the program. The California Post was there Tuesday and watched syringes being handed out in the middle of the neighborhood’s spiraling drug crisis.

California Post

Sheriff Luna feeds LASD deputies to the wolves: LA Superior Court judge greenlights OIG's external witch hunt on deputy gangs

In a ruling that unions call a partial but dangerous victory for civilian oversight, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant handed the politically charged Office of the Inspector General (OIG) a green light to interrogate Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) deputies about alleged membership in so-called “law enforcement gangs.”

The Current Report

Public Safety

Evidence points to human remains at home linked to Kristin Smart's killing, sheriff says

A California sheriff said Friday that evidence suggests human remains were present at a home connected to the man convicted of killing Kristin Smart, a 19-year-old college student who went missing in 1996. San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson said they cannot say whether the remains are those of Smart or whether authorities will seek another warrant to start digging on Susan Flores' property.

Associated Press

13-year-old boy driving e-motorcycle dies in crash in Garden Grove

A 13-year-old boy riding an off-highway e-motorcycle at an estimated 35 mph died Thursday, May 7, after he hit a center median and was thrown off the machine in Garden Grove, authorities said. The crash happened along Magnolia Street near Larson Avenue about 9:50 p.m., Garden Grove police Sgt. Nick Jensen said. Officers received a call regarding the crash and arrived to find the boy, a Santa Ana resident, being loaded into an ambulance by paramedics, Jensen said.

Southern California News Group

Man stabbed at Whole Foods near Lincoln and Rose in third Venice attack this week

A trip to the Whole Foods near Lincoln Boulevard and Rose Avenue turned violent Saturday evening when police say a 51-year-old man was stabbed in the arm at the grocery store - the third stabbing or edged-weapon attack reported in Venice since Thursday morning. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said the incident was reported around 5:25 p.m. The victim suffered a laceration after police said a suspect stabbed him in the arm.

Westside Current

4 arrested for $100,000 burglary at Ventura County home

The Ventura County Sheriff's Office arrested four men for allegedly stealing $100,000 worth of valuables from a Thousand Oaks home last week. The burglary happened last Tuesday while the homeowners were away, according to investigators. The Ventura County Sheriff's Office said one of the victims returned right after the burglary happened and found their home ransacked, with the suspects getting away with $100,000 worth of their valuables. 

CBS LA

LAPD says surge in multimillion-dollar cargo thefts is driving up consumer prices

The Los Angeles Police Department says a spike in cargo theft across the region is helping fuel inflation, with stolen goods from multimillion-dollar heists ending up for sale on online marketplaces and livestream shopping apps. An ABC7 On Your Side Investigates crew was granted exclusive access as LAPD's Cargo Theft Task Force and partner agencies raided a used car lot in Bell.

ABC7

Thieves ram stolen truck into West Hollywood luxury store in smash-and-grab burglary

Burglars used a stolen pickup truck to smash into a luxury clothing resale store in West Hollywood Friday morning before fleeing the scene, according to authorities. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that multiple men wearing black clothing used a stolen pickup truck to smash through the front window of The RealReal store around 1:30 a.m. at Melrose Avenue and La Cienega Boulevard.

Los Angeles Times

Did Newsom's $3.8 billion hotels-to-housing program pay off? CalMatters got records to find out

As COVID-19 tore through California, Jennifer Hark Dietz had a decision to make. The state was making perhaps its biggest push ever to get people off the street, offering up billions of dollars for cities and organizations like hers to turn old motels into new homes. It was risky. The Homekey program came with up-front cash and a promise to move fast and cut red tape.

CalMatters

Convictions/Pleas/Sentences/Parole

Son of UFC legend 'Rampage' Jackson gets plea deal in wrestling beatdown case

Raja Jackson - the son of mixed martial arts legend Quinton “Rampage” Jackson - pleaded no contest Wednesday for his role in a bloody beatdown of a professional wrestler last year in an incident that blurred the lines between real and scripted combat. Jackson, 25, is expected to serve 90 days in jail for battery after slamming Stuart Smith to the ground and striking him roughly 20 times, according to a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. 

Los Angeles Times

Pro-Palestinian protester pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in death of Jewish man

A former Southern California college professor has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish counterprotester during demonstrations in 2023 over the Israel-Hamas war. Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji, 53, was accused of striking Paul Kessler with a megaphone in November 2023 during a confrontation at an event that started as a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Thousand Oaks, a suburb northwest of Los Angeles.

Associated Press

2 men sentenced to 11 years in prison for beating Marine, leaving him to die on Bellflower street

Two men who are cousins pleaded no contest Thursday to voluntary manslaughter in connection with the death of a U.S. Marine who was beaten and left on a Bellflower street, where he was subsequently struck by a passing vehicle. Damari Kensey, 22, of Long Beach, and Jaymel Williams, 29, of Inglewood, were each immediately sentenced to 11 years in state prison, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. 

Long Beach Post

Ventura man convicted in violent, racially charged attack on married couple

A 72-year-old Ventura County man was convicted of multiple felony hate crimes after launching a racially charged attack on a Black couple late last year. The Oct. 12, 2025, incident unfolded outside a business on East Thompson Boulevard in Ventura, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office. Investigators said the husband and wife had just arrived at the business when Charles Pierce, who was sitting outside, immediately began shouting racial slurs and threatening to kill the husband.

KTLA

Chinese national and ringleader sentenced to 12.5 years in $27 million multinational fraud and money laundering scheme targeting over 2,000 seniors

Zhao Wang, aka “Oscar,” was sentenced in federal court today to 151 months in prison for leading a $27 million fraud and money laundering scheme targeting approximately 2,000 elderly victims across the United States. Wang, a Chinese national, was the lead defendant charged in a five-defendant indictment unsealed in 2024. According to public documents, members of the conspiracy operated a series of technical support, bank impersonation and government impersonation, and refund scams targeting elderly victims. 

U.S. Attorney’s Office Press Release

East LA mother sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for killing 4-year-old daughter

A woman convicted of murdering her 4-year-old daughter, who was found unresponsive in a vehicle in East Los Angeles just over two years ago, was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison. A downtown Los Angeles jury found Maria Del Refugio Avalos, 40, guilty March 19 of one count each of second-degree murder and assault on a child causing death.

City News Service

Arcadia mayor, accused of being Chinese foreign agent, strikes deal with feds and resigns

Eileen Wang, an Arcadia city leader facing charges of acting as an illegal foreign agent of China, resigned Monday after reaching an agreement to resolve the federal case. Wang, who served as mayor of the San Gabriel Valley suburb, entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors over charges that she acted under the control of the People’s Republic of China to promote propaganda in the U.S. between 2020 and 2022, according to court filings.

Los Angeles Times