* Linda Sun, former aide to the current New York Governor Kathy Hochul as well as former governor Andrew Cuomo was arrested on Tuesday along with her husband Chris Hu and charged with acting as an illegal agent to the Chinese government * Prosecutors said that Sun acted on behalf of the Chinese government to advance Beijing’s agenda in the state capitol * In return, both her and her husband received assistance from Chinese officials toward their business activities in China, allowing the couple to buy a multimillion dollar property on Long Island, a $1.9 million condo in Hawaii and a Ferrari * The indictment charges Sun with failure to register as a foreign agent, visa fraud, alien smuggling and money laundering conspiracy, and her husband with other charges relating to the facilitating and transfer of millions of dollars in kickbacks from the Chinese government * Prosecutors said Sun and Hu operated more than 80 different accounts and most of the evidence is in Chinese, including a WeChat message in which Sun is quoted telling a Chinese official, “I have done many things to make the relationship … flourish.” * The indictment alleges that, acting at the request of Chinese government officials and representatives of the Chinese Communist Party, Sun blocked Taiwanese government officials from having access to high-level New York State officers, changed New York State officers’ messaging about China and arranged meetings for visiting delegations from the PRC government with New York State government officials * A “furious” Gov Hochul called the allegations against Sun “brazen,” “shocking” and “a betrayal of trust” during an appearance on WNYC
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* Linda Sun, former aide to the current New York Governor Kathy Hochul as well as former governor Andrew Cuomo was arrested on Tuesday along with her husband Chris Hu and charged with acting as an illegal agent to the Chinese government
* Prosecutors said that Sun acted on behalf of the Chinese government to advance Beijing’s agenda in the state capitol
* In return, both her and her husband received assistance from Chinese officials toward their business activities in China, allowing the couple to buy a multimillion dollar property on Long Island, a $1.9 million condo in Hawaii and a Ferrari
* The indictment charges Sun with failure to register as a foreign agent, visa fraud, alien smuggling and money laundering conspiracy, and her husband with other charges relating to the facilitating and transfer of millions of dollars in kickbacks from the Chinese government
* Prosecutors said Sun and Hu operated more than 80 different accounts and most of the evidence is in Chinese, including a WeChat message in which Sun is quoted telling a Chinese official, “I have done many things to make the relationship … flourish.”
* The indictment alleges that, acting at the request of Chinese government officials and representatives of the Chinese Communist Party, Sun blocked Taiwanese government officials from having access to high-level New York State officers, changed New York State officers’ messaging about China and arranged meetings for visiting delegations from the PRC government with New York State government officials
* A “furious” Gov Hochul called the allegations against Sun “brazen,” “shocking” and “a betrayal of trust” during an appearance on WNYC