Posted on 06/27/2025 5:23:29 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Linda Sun Falsified Information to Cause Approval of NYS Contracts Awarded to Businesses Operated by her Family Member and her Husband
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China whore
Lock her up.
At least the phrase “her husband” is good news. That is an easy silver lining to find.
“She served as the deputy chief diversity officer in the administration of New York state governor Andrew Cuomo (2018–2020), and deputy chief of staff to his successor, governor Kathy Hochul (2021–2022).”
DEI
Didn’t earn it
“ The Defendants:
LINDA SUN, also known as “Wen Sun,” “Ling Da Sun,” and “Linda Hu”
…and Sum Ting Wong
Former Hochul Aide Tied to China Got Kickbacks for COVID Gear, Feds Charge. Linda Sun steered COVID protective equipment contracts to two family firms, one run by her husband and another by a second cousin.
by Yoav Gonen
June 26, 2025, 4:52 p.m.
A former staffer in the governor’s office accused of working as an agent for China allegedly steered contracts for personal protective equipment during the COVID pandemic to a firm co-owned by her husband and another that belongs to a second cousin, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. The prosecutors allege that former Deputy Chief of Staff Linda Sun, who worked for Gov. Kathy Hochul after being hired years earlier in the administration of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and her husband, Chris Hu, reaped millions of dollars from the deals — some in the form of kickbacks.
“When masks, gloves, and other protective supplies were hard to find, Sun abused her position of trust to steer contracts to her associates so that she and her husband could share in the profits,” said Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella. “We demand better from our public servants, and this office will continue to hold accountable public officials who enrich themselves at the expense of the New York taxpayers.” The charges against Sun and Hu include honest services wire fraud, bribery and conspiracy to defraud the United States. They mark the third indictment of the couple. In September 2024, a grand jury indicted Sun on charges that she worked as an unregistered foreign agent for the Chinese government, for which prosecutors claim she sought to influence the state government toward pro-China stances, in exchange for payments and perks from representatives of the country.
This included restricting access to the governor’s office for Taiwanese government officials and massaging statements made by Cuomo and Hochul to be more favorable to China, prosecutors alleged.
Sun’s husband was charged with money laundering and other crimes in September, and hit with additional money laundering counts in a superseding indictment brought in February. Sun, 41, and Hu, 40, pleaded not guilty to the prior charges. Attorneys for Sun, Jarrod Schaeffer and Kenneth Abell, said she vehemently denies the latest charges and plans to fight them.
“Scrambling to develop new theories and shoving new charges into an indictment as trial looms is both unfortunate and telling, but it is also unsurprising given how this case has proceeded and the government’s recent efforts to further delay trial in this case,” said Schaeffer. “The newest allegations continue the government’s trend of making and publicizing feverish accusations unmoored from the facts and evidence that we expect will actually come out at trial.” Attorneys for Hu didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Sun was terminated from her job in Hochul’s executive office in March 2023, days after a probe by the State Inspector General found that Sun had improperly obtained official proclamations for a Chinese government official, as well as for her father and a family friend, according to Gothamist.
When the COVID pandemic landed in New York in March 2020, Sun was working as deputy chief diversity officer for the Cuomo administration. As part of her role she helped coordinate the procurement of protective equipment, such as masks, from Chinese firms amid shortages across the state.
Wednesday’s indictment says Sun referred her husband’s and second cousin’s firms to preferred vendor lists by falsely claiming they had been recommended by affiliates of the Chinese government. Neither company is named in the indictment. In one instance, Sun allegedly doctored an email she forwarded to officials in the governor’s office in March 2020, which contained a list of recommended vendors, to include the second cousin’s company and that claimed that its surgical masks were the “gold standard.”
In another instance, she included the name of her husband’s company on an email to government officials listing mask suppliers, and an internal government document falsely claimed that the firm had been recommended by a Chinese chamber of commerce, prosecutors alleged.
Prosecutors claim they found documents on Sun and Hu’s computers that listed $2.3 million in kickback payments to them from the second cousin’s firm in 2020 and 2021. Hu was charged with allegedly laundering the payments from the relative’s firm, and for failing to report the taxable income to the IRS.
Prosecutors said a spreadsheet that belonged to Hu puts the expected payments to Sun and Hu across the contracts for both firms, including the alleged kickbacks, at more than $8 million. Prosecutors alleged in the first indictment that Sun and Hu’s earnings from illicit activities went toward a lavish lifestyle that included a $3.6 million mansion in Long Island, a $1.9 million condo in Hawaii and a Ferrari, Range Rover and Mercedes.
When two or more main land chinese are gathered together there is graft — It’s chinese national anthem....
Now let’s reveal Gov. Hogons wifes deal.
When masks, gloves, and other protective supplies were hard to find, Sun abused her position of trust to steer contracts to her associates so that she and her husband could share in the profits,” said Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella
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good work joeseph , now look into newscom’s billion $ for masks that i never heard showed up.
right———During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, Maryland’s First Lady, Yumi Hogan, played a significant role in “Operation Enduring Friendship”. This initiative involved securing 500,000 COVID-19 test kits from South Korea. Yumi Hogan, who is Korean American and fluent in Korean, helped facilitate negotiations and communications with the South Korean government and the company producing the tests, LabGenomics. Governor Hogan emphasized the importance of their relationship with the South Korean Ambassador to the U.S. and credited his wife as a “champion of this operation”.
However, the purchased tests were later found to be flawed and were not widely used. A state audit in 2021 revealed that the purchase was based on a flawed agreement. The Hogan administration paid the South Korean company an additional $2.5 million for replacement tests, most of which were also likely unused.
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Apr 20, 2020 — The delivery was the culmination of what Hogan labeled “Operation Enduring Friendship,” which started March 28, when he asked his wife to join him on a call wit...
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Apr 20, 2020 — Yumi Hogan, Maryland’s first lady, helped her husband procure half a million coronavirus test kits from her native South Korea as the state faced burgeoning cas...
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Apr 21, 2020 — Larry Hogan called his wife Yumi a “champion” of the negotiations with South Korea to bring the tests into his state.
Thanks.
I seem to recall that the owners of the company were related to Hogans wife
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