Former NY Governor Aide in Chinese Agent Case Faces New Charges of COVID-19 Supplies Scheme

Linda Sun is accused of steering lucrative state contracts to businesses linked to her family in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Linda Sun (R), former aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, and her husband, Chris Hu, exit the federal court in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on Sept. 3, 2024. Huang Xiaotang/The Epoch Times

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.