Trial Starts for Former Top Aide to Hochul, Cuomo Accused of Being Secret Agent for China
“Her loyalty was for sale, and the Chinese government, which wanted to influence the New York government, was willing to pay her to do their bidding.”
The trial of Linda Sun, a former top aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and her husband, Chris Hu, began on Wednesday.
Sun has an impressive resume, including Deputy Chief Diversity Officer for Cuomo, Director of External Affairs of Global NY for Empire State Development, Director of Asian American Affairs, and Queens Regional Representative.
Sun faces accusations of working as a secret agent for China in exchange for lavish payoffs.
Sun and Hu face charges of fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering.
“Her loyalty was for sale, and the Chinese government, which wanted to influence the New York government, was willing to pay her to do their bidding,” Assistant US Attorney Amanda Shami said in the Brooklyn court, as reported by The New York Post. “Linda Sun was for sale.”
Jarrod Schaeffer, Sun’s attorney, admitted she accepted gifts and “steered New York leaders away from touchy topics for China.”
Those moves didn’t make Sun an agent for China, Schaeffer claimed. Instead, it’s just politics!
I wrote about Sun and Hu when authorities arrested them in September 2024.
Here’s a refresher!
Sun supposedly invited officials to government conference calls about COVID-19 responses, but kept them off the guest list since none of them were open to the public. They had to keep their phones on mute.
Sun also got Politician-1 (who is probably Cuomo) to accept ventilators from Chinese foundations. The PRC officials pushed Sun to force the politician to privately and publicly thank the Chinese government and the PRC official responsible for the transactions.
In January 2021, one of the PRC officials told Sun to persuade Politician 2 (likely Hochul) to make a video about the Lunar New Year. Sun asked for the talking points and themes, which she handed to Hochul’s speechwriter.
The speechwriter wanted to include the Uyghur concentration camps in China, but Sun immediately struck them. The two ended up arguing over the talking point.
Hochul ended up not mentioning the Uyghur concentration camps in her video and speech.
The government accused Hu of laundering “unlawful proceeds through bank accounts opened in the name of a close relative but that were actually for HU’s exclusive use.” He had to open these accounts using “an image of the relative’s driver’s license.”
The government also claimed that Sun and her husband received many benefits from China for her actions:
In return for these and other actions, the defendant LINDA SUN received substantial economic and other benefits from representatives of the PRC government and the CCP, including the facilitation of millions of dollars in transactions for the PRC-based business activities of SUN’s husband, the defendant CHRIS HU; travel benefits; tickets to events; promotion of a close family friend’s business; employment for SUN’s cousin in the PRC; and Nanjing-style salted ducks prepared by PRC Official-1’s personal chef that were delivered to the residence of SUN’s parents. SUN and HU laundered the monetary proceeds of this scheme to purchase, among other items, real estate property in Manhasset, New York for $3.6 million, a condominium in Honolulu, Hawaii for $1.9 million, and various luxury automobiles, including a 2024 Ferrari. SUN never disclosed any benefits she received from representatives of the PRC government and the CCP to the NYS government, as she was required to do as a NYS government employee.
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Couple of things to contemplate here:
1) That Sun was a CCP agent and Hochul didn’t realize it thereby revealing that Hochul is stupid, or
2) That Sun was a CCP agent and Hochul did know it thereby revealing that Hochul is complicit.
Either way, there is no daylight showing between the current iteration of the Democrat Party and the CCP.
We ignore this fact at our peril.
There isn’t a single politician who would not sell his soul for a dwelling in a fancy zip code, expensive clothing, flashy cars and travel, and access to the best cocktail parties.
It is an argument for voting for and hiring only the already rich for government positions.
So kinda related, but after all the hand wringing and Trump attacks on ventilators, where are they all now? Has anyone done an inventory/audit? My guess is after the end of 2020 they got thrown out because of storage costs.
proving once again
its notttt money that is evil
its the cretins who want to control others who are maga
One might ask where was the crack NY Attorney General in all this? No where, even though the early indications of wrong doing were uncovered by the state’s Inspector General. It was up to the Feds to take it from there. Clearly these hand-offs of cases from State to Federal are common but I would have expected that the first shot at prosecution to be coming from the NY state. But I suspect that office was busy pursuing other important cases.
L. James: Why do you keep asking me why I didn’t prosecute Sun? I already told you that once I get Trump, I’m going after his son. Got it?
Another Godless, communist degenerate gambling, chain smoking spy. But who am Into generalize? (s)
Speculating on the gambling and smoking, lol!