NY Gov. Hochul’s Former Top Aide Charged for Acting as Chinese Agent
Linda Sun also worked in Cuomo’s administration.
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Authorities arrested and charged New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s former top aide, Linda Sun, and her husband for working as undisclosed agents for China.
Sun also served in former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration.
Sun worked for the New York State government between 2012 and 2023. Her husband, Chris Hu, had many businesses, including seafood exporting and financial consultancy in Queens.
The government claimed:
Acting at the request of PRC government officials and CCP representatives, SUN engaged in numerous political activities in the interests of the PRC and the CCP, including blocking representatives of the Taiwanese government from having access to the NYS governor’s office; changing Politician-1 and Politician-2’s messaging regarding issues of importance to the PRC and the CCP; obtaining official NYS governor proclamations for PRC government representatives without proper authorization; attempting to facilitate a trip to the PRC by Politician-2; and arranging meetings for visiting delegations from the PRC government with NYS government officials.
Additionally, the defendant LINDA SUN repeatedly violated internal rules and protocols within the NYS governor’s office to provide improper benefits to PRC and CCP representatives, including by providing unauthorized invitation letters from the office of the NYS governor that were used to facilitate travel by PRC government officials into the United States for meetings with NYS government officials. SUN’s unauthorized invitation letters for the PRC government delegation constituted false statements made in connection with immigration documents and induced the foreign citizens into unlawfully entering the United States.
In 2020, Sun used her position in Cuomo’s administration to connect PRC Consular officials with him.
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.”
“As alleged, while appearing to serve the people of New York as Deputy Chief of Staff within the New York State Executive Chamber, the defendant and her husband actually worked to further the interests of the Chinese government and the CCP,” stated United States Attorney Breon Peace. “The illicit scheme enriched the defendant’s family to the tune of millions of dollars. Our Office will act decisively to prosecute those who serve as undisclosed agents of a foreign government.”
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.
Sun never registered as a foreign agent and took steps to conceal her activities, according to the indictment.
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Well, Trump went to North Korea and kissed their communist dictator on the ass, and published it for all of us to see as a supposedly positive change in relations with Communist North Korea. So I guess Trump has that to his credit. Are there any Communists that Trump has not supported? I know he is a supporter of Russia in its war against Ukraine. Just like Tucker Carlson and his visit to Russia. How many other Communist countries does Trump support? Trump is the most pro-Communist candidate in our history.
But, but Trump!!11!!11!
Harris is a communist, JR. And Russia and NK didn’t do a damn thing while Trump was president. You’re an indescribably stupid person.
What’s wrong with you, JR? You are an insufferable bore. Do everyone a favor and stop the nonsense you spew.
More mush from the wimp.
You should have that TDS pimple removed from between your shoulders.
You’re an even worse poster than the late unlamented BartE.
Show us on the doll where the bad man touched you.
Trump applied the well known adage, “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” Do you not understand this? Oh, never mind.
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Yawn.
You’re on a roll! Way to put those MAGAs in their place! And since you obviously crave attention for such idiocy, why not insist that Trump plans to force all women to have at least 10 babies and restore slavery?
Will she be housed in the Meng Wanzhou wing at Sing Sing.
Where are the consequences for the elected officials that hire these people?
Shouldn’t they be held to the same standard? If you don’t do your due diligence and hire a foreign spy that doesn’t mean the damage done is any less severe?
Put a few Kathy Hochuls, Andrew Cuomos and Eric Swalwells in prison, others will get the message and this shit will stop.
She’s not alleged to have been a spy. If she were a spy she’d be charged with espionage. Failing to register as a foreign agent means everything she did was legal, but she had a duty to disclose her agency (in which case she’d never have been hired for her job and thus wouldn’t be able to carry out her agency).
You KNOW she slept with Politician-1. You just do.
Possibly. But she may also have been sleeping with anyone in the Chief of Staff’s Office, the Hochul Administration and an IT specialist who granted her access to State systems and databases
Reporter: “Why did you hire someone born in China to work in such a high position?”
Hochul: “How was I to know she was born in China? She changed her name to Linda.”
Of course, Hochul never hired her.
Governor Ass-Grabber hired her.
She just skated through the transition.
Agent Me Luv You Long Time. Any word on how many Democrat congressman (and maybe women) this one was banging?
when asked why it took so long to discover her
hochul said:
her policies and actions were the same as ours
we couldnt tell the difference
and so to make themselves appear not to be in sync with the communists
the dnc takes this action so close to the elections
the fbi knew she was trouble when they spotted
all those balloons in her office
When asked what actions that Harris would take against the Chinese government for their funding of this
The former mcdonalds worker ( oh wait,,,thats still a lie) said:
we’ll see how trump would handle this
please watch the following video to determine who is actually at fault:
https://nationalpost.com/news/sum-ting-wong-intern-blamed-for-leaking-fake-names-of-pilots-aboard-plane-that-crashed-in-san-francisco
“We made several mistakes when we received this information. First, we never read the names out loud, phonetically sounding them out,” read the statement.
So, “Fuk” just flew right past you?
That intern was fired immediately but is now legend.
I’ll bet Swalwell banged her, too.
Treason is a team sport for the Democrats.
I’m guessing they have known this for a long time and didn’t care. The Chinese officials would have been under surveillance. It’s probably the money laundering and tax evasion. Just like Hunter Biden it seems the IRS or Treasury won’t let it go. Probably front running the whistle blowers.
I did not realize Pussy Galore’s real name was Linda and she was Asian.
And the difference between this Chinese agent and Hunter Biden is? Yeah I thought so, no difference. Someone might want to point this out to Herr Garland. FKH
hunter was said to have gotten better powder than she did
Hunter didn’t hide it.
If she was an aide to the Gov and tooling around in a Ferrari I’d say she wasn’t hiding it either.
she worked for cuomo
and you know she was feeding him info from her ccp pals
same way that “minister of information” during the fjb regime jankowicz was a russian spy who they rewarded with that job…that failed biden disinformation pos
these anti american anti trump gop are hurting america nad helping the communistnazi takeover of america:
Toomey, who retired at the end of 2022, said he supported Trump in the 2016 and 2020 elections, but the former president lost his support after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. In 2021, he voted to convict Trump during his second impeachment. Toomey didn’t run for re-election in 2022, and his seat was won by Democrat John Fetterman that year.
Isn’t it interesting how these Communists always seem to have spies in their employ?
Not alleged to be a spy.
There’s got to be an Abbott and Costello skit in this somewhere.
Fang Fang had a sister!
Fang Fang was a spy. This woman is not alleged to have been a spy.
If Sun is not a spy then the Chinese are really slipping … and I doubt that.
She represented Chinese interests, here …. and it just so happened that she was near the top of the power structure in one of the wealthiest states on Earth. What do you think she was doing? Just helping them to sell plastic parts?
Obviously, she was spying and trying to influence American political power – which, with a birdbrain like Hochul isn’t that big of a challenge, especially considering that the democrat party, as a whole, has pretty much been working for China for a long time, only to be supercharged with the new Maoist commies that came up with Barky.
If she were spying she would have been charged with that.
Yes, she represented Chinese interests here, which is not illegal provided you register, which she didn’t do. Had she registered, she would obviously not have been hired for her job.
We know what she was doing in her position, or at least we know what the state has alleged she was doing: keeping Taiwan from having any influence or getting any recognition. She also pulled strings to get Chinese officials recognition that they didn’t deserve. There’s nothing about spying.
Yes, she was trying to influence state policy. That is not spying.
LOL.
Brilliant, Milhouse.
Not necessarily. It could have to do with what can be proven, or political considerations. We’ve seen that before.
When has the FBI ever had evidence of espionage against someone and not charged it?
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