by Frank Holmes, reporter
The Democratic Party will do anything to serve its constituents. Unfortunately, it’s main donors live in the People’s Republic of China.
In the latest Democratic outrage, one of the leading liberal Democrats in America just got caught in the middle of another explosive scandal involving Chinese spies, COVID orders, and millions of dollars stolen from U.S. taxpayers.
This time, it’s liberal Democrat Kathy Hochul of New York, who made President Donald Trump public enemy number one ever since she replaced disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo following his sexual harassment scandal.
Hochul needed a top aide, and she picked Linda Sun (who was born in China as Sun Wen or, more accurately, 孙雯).
Sun became a naturalized U.S. citizen, and had been a fixture in New York Democratic politics since 2012.
From humble beginnings in a country dominated by the Chinese Communist Party, she made it to the United States and rose through the political ranks. She served the then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo as director of Asian American Affairs and then deputy chief of staff to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
But new documents alleged that Hochul’s helper worked for two groups: the Chinese Communist Party and herself.
All the charges are in a searing FBI indictment, as federal investigators slapped her with charges.
Linda Sun (Sun Wen 孙雯), who was Deputy Chief of Staff to New York Governor Democrat Kathy Hochul, has been arrested on charges of being an agent for Communist China.
Below is additional information from my file on Linda Sun. My files also implicate other New York Democrats. pic.twitter.com/KksPquUoLQ— Dr. Lawrence Sellin (@LawrenceSellin) September 3, 2024
The charges say Linda Sun used her influential position to to convince the New York state government to spend taxpayers’ money buying personal protective equipment (PPE) from her family—which gave her huge kickbacks.
The story began at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak.
“Linda Sun not only acted as unregistered agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China, but also enriched herself to the tune of millions of dollars when New York State was at its most vulnerable at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Joseph Nocella, Jr.. who is the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “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.”
Sun falsified a document to make it look like the Jiangsu Department of Commerce had recommended a company run by her second cousin, authorities claim. Instead, Sun forwarded a doctored version of the original email, where Jiangsu actually asked the state government to use a different company, substituting her cousin’s business for that corporation’s name.
An email circulated through the state government on March 24, 2020, stating, “Already VERIFIED by Linda Sun”…but she did a lot more than verify it. She invented it and then cashed in big, the charges allege.
Worse yet, that was her second offense that month. Ten days earlier, Linda Sun set up the New York state government to buy masks from the company of an unnamed associate, authorities claim.
When asked how this particular company got to be on the Empire State’s payroll and vendor list, Sun marked that the contractor had been “referred by Chinese chamber of commerce.” But that was reportedly a lie: It was referred by Linda Sun…and so were its profits.
The bottom of the column listed the gargantuan profit Sun would get from her sweetheart deal: $8,029,741. The top of the column had just one word: “Me.”
“Not only did Sun allegedly use Chinese money and her influence in New York State to benefit the Chinese government, it is further alleged that she used her position to steer multi-million-dollar contracts to companies controlled by family members and friends. With this investigation, this husband-and-wife team with supposed ties to corruption has been rooted out, and they will soon understand that in legitimate government spending, there is no friends and family discount,” stated IRS-CI New York Special Agent in Charge Chavis.
A grand jury indicted Sun and her husband and co-defendant Chris Hu on June 25.
To make matters worse, these aren’t the most serious charges that Kathy Hochul’s hand-picked right-hand-woman is facing.
The new charges add to a cornucopia of existing charges that the government has brought against Sun as a secret foreign lobbyist. Last September 3, officials accused Sun of such serious crimes as violating and conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act, visa fraud, alien smuggling, and money laundering.
Hu also stands charged with committing money laundering conspiracy, money laundering, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and misuse of means of identification.
Things are getting worse for Linda Sun, the former aide to two New York governors who's already accused of secretly working for communist China.
Here’s what we know about the new federal fraud charges against her. pic.twitter.com/WP7eOIZ8mQ
— China in Focus – NTD (@ChinaInFocusNTD) July 2, 2025
The Horn News reported about Sun’s alleged dirty foreign lobbying deal last August, along with a detailed list of other liberal Democrats targeted by Chinese intelligence.
Up-and-coming Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston reportedly took $300,000 from a registered agent with the Chinese government who goes by the name “Gary Yu.”
Rep. Eric Swalwell’s infamous relationship with CCP spy Fang Fang brought new meaning to the words “Chinese Communist penetration.”
In 2018 word broke that Sen. Diane Feinstein, who then chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee, hired a reported Chinese spy as her driver.
The CCP’s cozy relationship with the highest levels of the Democratic Party goes back at least 30 years to April 1996, when Vice President Al Gore got caught taking $140,000 that the People’s Republic of China funneled to the Democratic National Committee through a Buddhist temple.
Now, Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul have become the latest liberal Democrats tied to a corrupt Chinese agent of influence.
If nothing else, the Kathy Hochul-CCP scandal proves the sun never sets on Democrats’ collusion with Communist China.