A former deputy chief of staff to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was charged Tuesday with acting as an undisclosed agent of the Chinese government, federal prosecutors revealed in a sprawling indictment.
Linda Sun, who held numerous posts in New York state government before rising to the rank of deputy chief of staff for Hochul, was arrested Tuesday morning along with her husband at their $3.5 million home on Long Island.
Sun and her husband, Chris Hu, are expected to make an initial court appearance Tuesday afternoon, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn said.
A lawyer for Sun, Seth DuCharme, did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
The FBI searched the couple’s $3.5 million home in Manhasset late July but declined to release further details at the time.
Sun worked in state government for about 15 years, holding posts in the administration of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and eventually becoming Hochul’s deputy chief of staff, according to her LinkedIn profile.
In November 2022, Sun took a job at the New York Department of Labor, as deputy commissioner for strategic business development, but she left that job months later in March 2023, the profile said.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Hochul’s office said the administration fired Sun after “discovering evidence of misconduct.”
“This individual was hired by the Executive Chamber more than a decade ago. We terminated her employment in March 2023 after discovering evidence of misconduct, immediately reported her actions to law enforcement and have assisted law enforcement throughout this process,” the statement reads.
Sun and Hu live in a gated community on Long Island called Stone Hill. The couple purchased the house in 2021 but placed it in a trust earlier this year, records show.
(AP)
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Why are all the spies found with the democrat leadership?
I gues they’re easier to blend in being that neither of them are Americans 😂
Why are all the spies found with the democrat leadership? – What’s your source for this?
I gues they’re easier to blend in being that neither of them are Americans – They could well be American born and educated, Linda Sun graduated from Barnard College, MA from Columbia Teachers College. How is she less American than, lehavdil, Rahm Emanuel, born in Chicago to an Israeli father, whose loyalties were as much to his mentor Yitzchak Rabin as to his bosses Bill Clinton and Barak Obama? Now serves as US ambassador to Japan.
“How is she less American than, lehavdil, Rahm Emanuel, born in Chicago to an Israeli father, whose loyalties were as much to his mentor Yitzchak Rabin as to his bosses Bill Clinton and Barak Obama?”
Um, hello?
Rahm Emanuel is a Democrat. (As are clinton and obama)
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Coffee Addict, she was not a spy. If she were, she’d have been charged with that. Since she was not charged with espionage, we can be sure that there was no evidence to support such a charge.
But you’re right that these spies seem to find a natural home working for Democrats. Feinstein, Swalwell, Pelosi, Schumer, have all had spies found working for them. No Republicans have, yet.