The former Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Director for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who became Deputy Chief of Staff to New York Governor Kathy Hochul, Linda Sun, has been indicted on a host of federal charges for acting as an agent for China, bribery, kickbacks and fraud.
NEW YORK (AP) — Already charged with acting as an illicit agent of the Chinese government, a former aide to two New York governors is being accused of illegally profiteering off the state’s pandemic-era scramble for face masks.
Linda Sun — who worked for Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul, both Democrats — and husband Chris Hu were indicted Wednesday on bribery and other charges in the alleged mask graft.
“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,” Brooklyn-based U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. said in a statement Thursday.
[…] The new indictment accuses Sun and Hu of reaping millions in kickbacks by exploiting her role on a Cuomo administration team that procured much-needed personal protective equipment in the spring of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic was taking hold.
At the time, New York was a hotspot for the virus and, like other U.S. states and other nations, was scouring the globe for masks and other supplies.
A naturalized U.S. citizen born in China, Sun used her homeland ties to help New York wrangle PPE from the country where much of it was made even as exports had dwindled because of China’s own battle with the virus.
Sun connected the state with vendors the Chinese government recommended. But, according to the indictment, she also forged documents to falsely claim that Chinese contacts had suggested two additional companies. One was run by a second cousin of Sun’s, and the other by a business associate of her husband’s, the indictment said.
Sun didn’t disclose those relationships to New York’s government, which signed contracts with both companies in March 2020 and went on to pay them over $44 million in all, according to the indictment.
The cousin funneled about $2.3 million back to Hu, the indictment said. It doesn’t specify whether Hu’s associate allegedly paid anything. (read more)
It doesn’t matter which blue state it is. Show me a Democrat run state, and you can easily find leftists in the state government who take advantage of their position to gain financial wealth through bribery and fraud.
All of the COVID-19 emergency funds, the Green New Deal funds, the Inflation Reduction Act funds, all of them… and the end of the system there are hundreds of individuals and organizations profiting personally from these corrupt endeavors. Linda Sun is just one participant in a large network of corrupt government interests.
The problem is that leadership in these same state systems are just as corrupt as the supportive bureaucrats who extract their own part of the process. And yes, there are again trillions at stake.
Let the denaturalization process begin. Mamdani can go too.
NYC is going to be even safer after this guy eliminates the police force.
He can eliminate the city police force…
But he cannot eliminate the police {The People}.
CAPITALISM = FREEDOM
Who is on the US Penny again…
Right under the inscription…
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
Not in NYC. They sacrifice to Satan.
Thunderdome.
NYC will be so safe that there will be a population boom of ex convicts, Antifa wanna bes, and assorted criminals. All others will head for Blue States.
NYC is going the way of London and many other leading cities of the world; very bad road to be on. Communists don’t know the road to prosperity and freedom for US.
BUT they do know the road to ‘One Government One Religion’ for the world.
God Help US
Obama’s Arab Spring along with his getting rid of ‘Bible Thumpers’ and guns is the formula being followed.
Obumbler did not get rid of anything. We’re still here because unlike weak, liberal sheep, our colors don’t run.
I don’t know why my mind went there but:
“Denaturing alcohol involves adding substances to ethanol to make it unfit for human consumption, while retaining its solvent or fuel properties.”
😂 the 🧠 makes interesting connections
My aunt used to strain rubbing alcohol through white bread.
There’s a home remedy in there someplace!
What the h3ll happened to New York?
As for graft and corruption? It was always there. Communism? Thank the teachers unions. It took decades but mission accomplished.
Too big, too powerful, too greedy.
Marxist persistence in NY over two decades. Yet California is more infiltrated and influenced by China than NY.
Doesn’t really matter which version of communism is dominant. It’s the same disease.
Remember that billion dollar mask deal Newsom made with China? Kind of flared up and not to be heard of again.
Seriously?
Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed were stealing from the people 160 years ago.
Not a damn thing has changed.
The stealing is for a different purpose now a days; most leaves the US for foreign soil………..it’s the world they want not just NYC.
The amounts have. Exponentially 😂
Mayor DeBlasio’s wife stole $900m
Marxist DeBlasio’s …
Warren Wilhelm.
Uh…. whatever it was, it happened a LONG LONG time ago. The purpose of government regulation is 1-10% safety, quality, record keeping for dispute resolution and 90-99% about inviting people to bypass regulations through bribery and kickbacks.
You’ve brought up such an important point, i.e., the more rules and regulations there are, the more money that flows to the pockets of government officials in hopes of seeking exemptions, bureaucratic workarounds or other forms of relief, whereas the less rules and regulations, the more money that flows to business enterprise which promotes rising standards of living.
Re Mamdani, he will be flushed down the toilet once the progressive temper tantrum subsides. Please note that:
Infected with the same disease as Commiefornia.
The cancer has reached critical mass.
my grandfather was a trucker who belonged to the Teamsters, he had to be to get dock space anywhere in NYC,,,years later when I was a shipping director for a major company, I could only use ABF to NYC, as they paid their juice regularly and could get immediate dock space, long term problems there, even past the early 1900s,,,,never been a good place
Election fraud plus illegals.
The government (federal/state ) is full of corrupt employees – it is hard to tell how much of the taxpayers money is stolen in a day.
Tom, it’d be staggering to learn the percentage of our taxes are actually used to support the corruption.
Not coincidental that there has been no formal Federal budget since ~2008.
A series of continuing resolutions, baseline budgeting, and other accounting methods that only obfuscate and deflect from good accounting practices.
It was setup that way to enable more graft.
More graft that isn’t obvious and allows debt upon debt upon debt to be heaped on the American People who are/were mostly white.
It’s not just the corrupt employees.
It’s also the corruption in pretty much every major part of our society.
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”, a famous Democrat once said…
Yea and then they shot him.
hmmm let see
Slalwell was sleeping with a Chinese Spy
Feinstein had a Chinese Driver
Now Hochul has this Chinese Lady getting arrested
I see a pattern here.. oh thats right CHINA..maybe they are all China puppets?
Don’t let the headlines fool you.
pResident *Biden told us that the Chinese are all really good people.
…and Justin Trudeau said about Communist China that he “admired their basic dictatorship.”
Trudeau was paraphrasing a couple of Clinton’s cabinet appointees. And then there is Clinton himself.
He heard that from Bush!
Maybe China wants to take over both maritime coasts?
‘Here comes the Sun’ – to prison!
Nothing under tje Sun surprises me anymore
Am I doing it right?
😆
Well… they say there’s nothing new
Under the sun
Lol
That is God’s Word as given to the son of King David, Solomon.
Solomon is renown for being the wisest, richest King in Israel’s history.
God’s Word…
The same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
Sun to prison?
Hu damn right!
🤷
Hu funny!
And Hu with her!
All of “government”, and I use the term loosely, need to go on a $tarvation diet.
Pass the BBB ! then close it down til a ‘budget’ – a real budget – gets put in place; of course using the gold standard currency once again!
Trump should be discussing the Gold standard with Russia; they are back on it.
God Help US
The Gold Standard will not work with all of these ‘social programs’. The .gov will have to live within its means and it is killing off the producers of everything. Potato farmers, ranchers, poultry farms, hog farms, hay fields, wheat fields are being turned into solar farms or worse covered with windturbines that kill will birds and drive animals crazy.
The us doesn’t even know how to produce a washing machine anymore. GE is moving back into its original ‘Appliance Park” in Kentucky but it will take a while because all the washing machines have computers in them.
The most infuriating thing about all of this graft is it’s funded by our taxes. If we ever dare to try to find tax loopholes in order to keep our own money we get fined, charged late fees and usury interest. It is literally a syndicate. They take our money, spend it on themselves and not the reasons they claim to need it and then call us thieves for not giving them more. All while having disdain for us. Demons. Both sides of the aisle
The (D)emons are no match for the Word of God.
As soon as We The People give {loan} every single man woman and child in Iran 100 US Pennies each…
The (D)emons are defunded.
Oil goes to $20.
Gas goes to 20¢.
The People of Iran get a stable currency with which to rebuild their economy, and profit from their own oil…
And
We The People of The United States Of America get Our Public Monies {USDollar} backed up by Iranian oil…
This is God’s way.
{God is no respecter of persons}.
This solution removes the banks {Federal Reserve} and the Government(s) {mob} from the equation.
CAPITALISM = FREEDOM
Cash makes no enemies.
Personality does not factor in mathematics.
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
Lawyers create the ‘loop holes’ for overspending since there isn’t a budget – a real budget – and there is no value to Our paper money!!
Print the money to cover the graft, corruption, and greed; It keeps the ‘deficit’ going up; running in the red will surely lead US to communism, what else can be done??
God Help US
EXACTLY!!!
Gee…anybody else ever notice that it’s always the demonrats who are in bed with the CCP, Chinese spies or whatever, whoever the enemy is?
These ignorant dems..don’t check out these obvious Chinese people who work for them?
THEY KNOW! And they still get in bed with them!p
You forget the real sponsors of the China Communist government; the Bush Cartel!! ALL US companies going to China; the Bush initiative.
The Bush China Foundation were also the sponsor of Wuhan for the world!! Along with WHO!
The NWO/communism is sponsored by the Bush Cartel; lock , stock and barrel!!
God Help US
With enemies within ya really can’t fight effectively.
A dishonest democrat. Who would have thunk it. Well, as Sundance points out, a democrat has to have money to get power wouldn’t ya know.
I hate to tell you this, but there are more than a few dishonest Republicans working at all levels of government.
By right every natural born citizen could easily have been millionaires with the trillions that’s been stolen from us in taxes
We overpaid taxes for the past 70+ plus years not in support of our country but to make our political leaders their families and friends filthy rich. And not only in this country but in other countries all over of the world.
There might be something to what you say, but we will never know how much graft has been taken via all levels of government.
There are just too many people in and out of government who use government money to fund their lifestyles.
Personal income tax was never the goal of Our Founders; it only came into effect in 1916. AND nullification can still be effective!!
Back to the gold standard, a real budget, a small government, states rights enforced, national sovereignty, would be a good start.
World commerce should be minimal!! Right now it’s used to control the money!
“It doesn’t matter which blue state it is. Show me a Democrat run state, and you can easily find leftists in the state government who take advantage of their position to gain financial wealth through bribery and fraud.”
In my opinion Nashville will be a great example.
Mass Transit accounts for 1% of miles travelled. MT is not safe in Nashville. No Mass Transit in the US pays for itself. Nashville today has a shortage of police officers.
If private enterprise wanted an increase in miles travelled and see if it made economic sense, what would PE do? They would take the major routes try to make them safe by hiring police and measure the increase in miles travelled.
What did Nashville do? Raised taxes to get 6 Billion to throw into increasing Mass Transit. The only hope is that enough will be wasted to reduce the size of the expansion so ongoing losses in the future are limited. Any bets on the percentage increase in miles travelled?
Mass transit is Communism.
Sun could be heard screaming “…don’t mock me, Round-Eye!!!!” as she was taken away in hand cuffs….
(-Bobbie Subgum, the world’s first Ninja entertainer, 102.5 WDVE’s Morning Show, Pittsburgh, PA.)
Back when Scott Paulson had a funny morning show but now it’s another vomit morning show ! Can’t listen any more that was a long time gone ! “ one dang deer “
The problem is that leadership in these same state systems are just as corrupt as the supportive bureaucrats who extract their own part of the process.
Yep, and Hochul is as corrupt as they come. She’ll find a way to get her buddy Mamdani “elected” as the next mayor.
Chinese money is behind much of the cultural Marxist antiChristian agenda. Heavily investing in boxing out any populist Christian candidates like in 96 and of course against our Goat PDJT
The Chinese are using Muslims to help implement their agenda. Muslims are running for these offices when a Communist like DeBlasio is not enough.
I remember Glenn Beck thinking that the Muslims would join forces with the Russians as the notion of Russians want nothing to do with Communism hadn’t penetrated many people’s minds at that time.
The Chinese (Facists) really, Government and business in bed together, using Muslims as their army is what is happening today.
Thank you, Sundance. Much of USA Government at the Federal and State level is already corrupted by agents from China. Regardless, there should be no freedom of mobility for China Government Officials in the USA. They should be limited in their USA movements and their numbers greatly reduced.
Bribery and Flattery are China’s primary means of inducing foreigners to work on China’s behalf.
See also: Minnesota Governor, Tim Waltz
See also: Democrat Congressional Representatives effectively controlled by China, particularly over Green Energy policies.
Not a single person involved has any sense of shame.
Every Senator and Congressman needs to be looked at. Who is so important that the Epstein list is stuck in a black hole? There have to be people on there that nobody suspects. The IC knows them all and keeps them on a short leach. The Trump team needs to out these things before time runs out. They have to be planning the midterm fraud so they can start impeaching Trump again, and neutering the Trump team. It’s a race with the Devil and no guaranteed winner at this time.
maybe Blondi, Ka$h and Bongo Boi are on the list?
Democrat run local/county/state/federal gubermint are really crime cartels. Saw this big time in NJ
It’s NY and she’s a dem. A fine at most is all she’ll get. If she gave The Party their cut, maybe not even that. A dem judge will be “randomly assigned” the case and nullifiers will be inserted into the jury. Just watch.
Sundace,
You may want to update the axiom.
Republicans want power to make money.
Democrats want money to take power, then use that power to make more money.
The distinction used to be clearer: one sold access, the other used ideology as a vehicle to consolidate control. But cases like Linda Sun show that once Democrats gain institutional power, the grift model kicks in just the same.
The difference between a Cuomo crony and a Bush donor is now more procedural than philosophical. Both parties have their cut-outs. The Democrats launder it through virtue and bureaucracy.
The IRS should audit all city, state and federal agencies before they even send out one letter to a regular Joe or Mary resident who they think might have cheated on their taxes.
Well, I find this incredibly shocking, Hochul harboring a CCP spy? This sounds familiar kind of like with Diane Findstein’s CCP driver. I hope someone is looking for Whitmer’s CCP assistants as they have had years of easy access to Whitmer and the Michigan’s universities.
What do Cuomo and Hochul know?
When did they know it?
What is their cut?
The money these grifters are stealing from the taxpayers is staggering.
What’s the difference between a Chinese communist Linda Sun and a New York communist Kathy Hochul?
FUBAR!
The worst side of human nature… no integrity.
“It doesn’t matter which blue state it is. Show me a Democrat run state, and you can easily find leftists in the state government who take advantage of their position to gain financial wealth through bribery and fraud.”
Kinda seems like this is THE motivating factor for wanting to get into government at this level. At lower levels the motivation is also obvious: “Can’t get fired, don’t need to actually work, and definitely opportunity to punish those who disagree with you.” Nearly 100% of government employees at all levels are Democrats and nearly all elections are run by government employees. What does that suggest?
It is amazing to me that most traditional Americans think of invaders, and that is what they are, as tending to have the values of most Americans. The blank slate theory. Only white Americans have been so brainwashed as to accept that. The rest of the world knows better.
Immigration is war.
Americans, Europeans… basically all of western civilization.
The rhodesians and south Africans understood.
This would be so rich, seeing them get thrown in a Slammer for procuring useless stuff
SEND IN HOMAN. Ship her and the husband back to China , to live with their contacts there.
Ten dollars says that she and her husband get back to china, long before they face any consequences!
Sundance said before, There are TRILLIONS at stake. Don’t be afraid or anxious for anything. God has us.
It is also said: “God helps those who help themselves”.
Reference please.. Can’t find that in my Bible.
Why are Blue states so riddled with corruption and waste?
For the same reason they’re blue. Democrats (socialsts).
Somewhere along the line, the mob decided to run for office instead of just buying off the politicians. The Uniparty is Mafia families with factions and varied interests. Sometimes they align, sometimes they conflict.
What? You think Governor Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison are corrupt? Come on. Just because KE met with the Somali fraudsters who organized a $250 m theft of taxpayer dollars to enrich themselves instead of feeding children as they claimed you think this is a problem? Just because Walz is a communist at heart that has heaped praise on China after getting married and visiting there over 20 times it doesn’t make him corrupt.
An acting MN US Attorney like Joe Thompson breaking up massive drug/gang operations that locals ignored doesn’t prove corruption either.
https://alphanews.org/nine-members-of-36th-and-penn-big-sip-drug-trafficking-organization-indicted-on-fentanyl-firearms-charges/
And just because a state like MN gives out freebies to everyone but whitey you can’t go making broad statements that they are corrupt. https://alphanews.org/doj-sues-minnesota-for-offering-free-and-reduced-tuition-to-illegal-aliens/
If sleazy incompetence and not caring about anybody but lowlifes is corruption Sundance, you need to experience the joy of MN living under our dear leader Tampon Tim.
It doesn’t matter which blue state it is. Show me a Democrat run state, and you can easily find leftists in the state government who take advantage of their position to gain financial wealth through bribery and fraud.
Usually criminal charges against politicians are a surface indication of political tribal infighting.
Usually they are brought by insiders against those considered either insufficiently or too corrupt.
I’m hoping for something better.
Maybe, just maybe, the DoJ has found a big enough flashlight that it’s starting to be able to find its ass with both hands.
Is that possible?
But has she been arrested?? Slap her in irons.
How many agents of the CCP were ushered into the NYC bureaucracy by the accused in this DEI-related stampede for public cash.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
“It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy.”
“A republic if you can keep it.”
Constitution of the United States : Article IV : Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion;
It was said, “elections have consequences”; this implies a tyrannical democracy as the form of government.
Better to say, “We do not elect rulers, elected officials have US Constitutional responsibilities and duties, bound by the oath of office”.
What is the current US government doing to guarantee “a Republican Form of Government”?
What we have today: communists, socialists, democratic socialists, anarchists, nepotism, cronyism, criminals, foreign agents…
All righty, now!
Just put those masks and gloves next to those unused ventilators…
Just to be clear….
There was no pandemic.
Stop pretending