BREAKING: Governor Kathy Hochul’s Former Aid Charged With Accepting Kickbacks In PPE Fraud Scheme – FBI New York
Linda Sun, a former Hochul and Cuomo aid, falsified information to cause approval of NYS contracts awarded to businesses operated by her family member and her husband, the justice department confirmed on Thursday.
Linda Sun, a former aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, who was previously charged with working as an unregistered agent of China, was accused of participating in a scheme to unlawfully obtain state contracts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sun, who served as Cuomo’s deputy chief diversity officer and later as Hochul’s deputy chief of staff, and her husband, Chris Hu, are accused of helping to push about $35 million in state contracts for personal protective equipment (PPE) to vendors that were run by her husband and her second cousin, according to a superseding indictment filed this week.
Sun and her husband allegedly received more than $2 million for their work to steer the contracts to her family members.
