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Former Aide to Hochul and Cuomo Faces Fresh Corruption Charges
More legal troubles have been piled on Linda Sun, a former aide to two New York governors who has been accused of using her position to help the Chinese government.
Ms. Sun and her husband, Chris Hu, face new charges that they helped steer lucrative contracts to Chinese companies to sell masks and ventilators to New York's government at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. They received millions of dollars from those companies for helping secure the contracts and then failed to report the money as taxable income, according to federal prosecutors in Brooklyn.
Ms. Sun 'enriched herself to the tune of millions of dollars when New York State was at its most vulnerable,' Joseph Nocella Jr., the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a news release.
Jarrod L. Schaeffer, a lawyer for Ms. Sun, said prosecutors were 'publicizing feverish accusations unmoored from the facts.'
'Ms. Sun vehemently denies these latest allegations and intends to vigorously contest them in court,' Mr. Schaeffer said in a statement.
Seth DuCharme, a lawyer for Mr. Hu, said he remained confident in his client's innocence and that the government had been 'scrambling to try to come up with some new charging theory' with a trial approaching.
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