The FBI Says This New York State Aide Was Working for China

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On Tuesday, federal prosecutors filed several criminal charges alleging that former New York state government aide Linda Sun was secretly a Chinese agent. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story.

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00:00The FBI says a former aide in New York state government was a secret Chinese agent.

00:05On Tuesday, federal prosecutors filed several criminal charges against Linda's son,

00:10including failure to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

00:13Son's husband, Chris Hu, was also charged with bank fraud conspiracy and other crimes.

00:18According to the New York Times, Son was in New York government for 14 years.

00:22She worked in the Andrew Cuomo administration and was current Governor Kathy Hochul's

00:26deputy chief of staff from September of 2021 to March of 2023.

00:31China allegedly arranged millions of dollars in transactions with Son's

00:34husband in exchange for services rendered by Son.

00:37The Times says these services included blocking meetings with representatives of Taiwan and

00:42stopping New York officials from speaking out on Chinese persecution of the Uyghur minority.

00:46Son and Hu have pleaded not guilty.

00:48Governor Hochul addressed the charges on WNYC's All Things Considered Tuesday.

00:53I'm furious and I'm outraged and absolutely shocked at how brazen her behavior was.

00:58It was a betrayal of trust.

01:00The second we discovered some levels of misconduct, we fired her.

01:05We alerted the authorities and hence we ended up with what happened here today.

01:10According to the Times, Chinese embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu claimed ignorance of this specific

01:15case but said, in recent years, the U.S. government and media have frequently hyped

01:19up the so-called Chinese agents' narratives, many of which have later been proven untrue.

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