Linda Sun, former aide to both New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is facing fraud charges on top of previous accusations of acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese regime.
Sun, 41, and her husband, Chris Hu, 40, were named in a superseding indictment unsealed on June 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The new charges, delivered by a federal grand jury the day before, stem from an alleged scheme to steer lucrative state contracts to businesses linked to her family during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to prosecutors, Sun used her position as deputy chief diversity officer under Cuomo in 2020 to manipulate the procurement process when COVID-19 first hit the United States. At the time, New York emerged as a domestic epicenter of the outbreak, and the state was scrambling to procure personal protective equipment and ventilators….
Former NY Governor Aide in Chinese Agent Case Faces New Charges of COVID-19 Supplies Scheme
