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\u539f\u6587\u5730\u5740\uff1a<\/b>A former New York official is accused of acting on behalf of the Chinese government. Here\u2019s a timeline of her alleged actions<\/a><\/font>
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Allegations of money laundering, falsified signatures and surreptitious communications fill the federal indictment brought against Linda Sun, a longtime New York governors\u2019 aide who was charged Tuesday with acting as an agent for the Chinese government. Sun, a former deputy chief of staff to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and aide to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, faces 10 counts, including violating the Foreign Agents Registrations Act, visa fraud, alien smuggling and money laundering conspiracy, according to an unsealed copy of the indictment. Federal prosecutors allege Sun has been operating for years as an undisclosed agent of the People\u2019s Republic of China, using her high-ranking positions in New York government to fulfill the PRC\u2019s requests and further the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. In the indictment, prosecutors lay out Sun\u2019s alleged efforts to allow the PRC access to private government communications, influence the governors\u2019 public remarks on China and block the Taiwanese government from communicating with Cuomo and Hochul. As Sun served in high-ranking positions in New York, her husband, Chris Hu, is accused of orchestrating the transfer of millions of dollars in \u201ckickbacks\u201d from the PRC, which the couple used to purchase expensive properties and luxury cars, prosecutors said. Hu was also charged with money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy to commit bank fraud as well as misusing means of identification. During a federal court hearing Tuesday, prosecutors alleged the defendants used shell companies, iCloud accounts and WeChat messages \u2013 with everything in Mandarin \u2013 in their alleged crimes. These are the \u2018gifts\u2019 prosecutors say ex-aide to two New York governors got from the Chinese government Sun and Hu both pleaded not guilty to all charges Tuesday afternoon. Sun\u2019s bond is set at $1.5 million and her husband\u2019s is set at $500,000. Both will have their travel limited to New York City, Long Island, Maine and New Hampshire. An attorney for Sun, Jarrod Schaeffer, told CNN the charges \u201care inflammatory and appear to be the product of an overly aggressive prosecution.\u201d \u201cWe are also troubled by aspects of the government\u2019s investigation. As we said today in court, our client is eager \u2026 to defend against these accusations in the proper forum \u2013 a court of law,\u201d Schaeffer said. Here is a timeline of some of the key allegations against Sun as she moved through the New York State government: Prosecution\u2019s timeline of allegations against Sun August 2012: Sun is hired by then-Gov. Cuomo\u2019s administration as director of Asian American affairs and Queens representative. She left the office in 2015 to be the director of external affairs for Empire State Development, which handles economic development across the state. June 9, 2016: Sun messaged a PRC official to inform them the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office, which effectively serves as the island\u2019s embassy in the US, had invited then-Lieutenant Gov. Hochul to appear at SelectUSA, an investment summit in Washington, DC, to be held later that month, according to the indictment. \u201cThey sent the invitation to another colleague trying to bypass me. I am working on it right now to resolve the issue,\u201d Sun wrote to the PRC official, according to the indictment. Later, Sun followed up to say, \u201cIt\u2019s all been taken care of satisfactorily.\u201d Prosecutors note that on June 21, 2016, Hochul attended a SelectUSA reception hosted by the PRC Embassy and the China General Chamber of Commerce \u2013 USA, instead of an event held by Taiwan. February 2018: Sun became Cuomo\u2019s deputy chief diversity officer. March 2018: Prosecutors accuse Sun of committing visa fraud by supplying unauthorized invitation letters on behalf of the governor\u2019s office to a delegation of PRC representatives, which helped the delegation obtain visas to enter the US, according to the indictment. The letters, which Sun was not authorized to issue or sign, bore falsified handwritten versions of Hochul\u2019s signature, the indictment alleges. The PRC delegation from the Henan Province arrived in the US in June 2018, where they met with Hochul to discuss economic cooperation between their province and New York, the document said. January 2019: Sun wrote to a PRC official, \u201cI very much value my relationship with the consulate and have done many things to make the relationship between the state and the consulate flourish during my tenure with (Politician-1),\u201d according to the indictment. Though Politician 1 is unnamed, Sun was serving under Cuomo at the time. \u201cCertainly I have managed to stop all relationships between the TECO and the state. I have denied all (r)equests from their office,\u201d Sun said, according to the indictment. The PRC official responded, \u201cI know and do appreciate your help\u201d and referred to Sun as \u201cthe most important hub connecting us with (Politician-1) and his team,\u201d the document said. March 16, 2020: Sun gave an unnamed Chinese official access to a private conference call held by New York State government leaders discussing their response to the Covid-19 pandemic and rising hate crimes against Asian Americans, the indictment alleges. Sun, who was then acting as deputy chief diversity officer under Cuomo, \u201csurreptitiously added\u201d the PRC official to the call, though the official was not on the invitation list, the indictment alleges. \u201cAt the close of the call, PRC Official-4 commented that the call was \u2018(v)ery useful,\u2019\u201d it adds. Prosecutors listed the call as evidence Sun allegedly violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act. July 2020: Sun moved to the New York State Department of Financial Services, where she worked as Superintendent for Intergovernmental Affairs and Chief Diversity Officer. Sometime in 2021: In 2021, Sun and Hu purchased millions of dollars in real estate, which prosecutors said was possible due to hefty financial rewards from their alleged efforts to aid the PRC, according to the indictment. Sometime that year, the couple purchased a $3.6 million parcel of real estate in Manhasset, New York, and a $1.9 million ocean-view condominium in Honolulu, Hawaii, the indictment said. The couple didn\u2019t take out any mortgage loans to make the purchases, the document notes. Prosecutors noted the couple\u2019s spending far outpaced the income noted on their federal tax returns that year. But shortly before making the purchases, Hu received more than $2.1 million in wire transfers from a PRC-based account under the name of his business partner, the indictment alleges. \u201cSun did not report the real estate acquisitions on her financial disclosure statements, as she was obligated to do,\u201d the indictment reads. January 2021: Sun worked to remove mention of China\u2019s mass detention of Muslim Uyghurs from Hochul\u2019s public remarks, according to the indictment. On January 12, after receiving a request from a PRC official, Sun said she would ask Hochul to record a video in honor of Lunar New Year, the document said. She asked the officials, \u201cCan you share with me some talking points of things you want her to mention(?) I can make sure to include it in her remarks.\u201d A few days later, Sun told the PRC official she had argued with Hochul\u2019s speechwriter, who had insisted the then-lieutenant governor should mention \u201cthe \u2018Uyghur situation,\u2019\u201d the indictment said. Sun said she would not allow Hochul to mention the Uyghurs, it added. Ultimately, Hochul did not mention the Uyghurs in her public Lunar New Year message, the indictment said. That same month, the US officially determined China was committing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghur Muslims and ethnic and religious minority groups in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. China strongly denied allegations of human rights abuses. August 24, 2021: Hochul became governor of New York after Cuomo resigned amid a parade of scandals. The following month, Sun became Deputy Chief of Staff in the governor\u2019s office and served as Hochul\u2019s advisor. September 2022: Sun transferred to the New York State Department of Labor as its Deputy Commissioner for Strategic Business Development. January 2023: After receiving a request from PRC government representatives, Sun obtained an unauthorized proclamation from the New York Governor\u2019s Office to be presented at an event celebrating the Lunar New Year, prosecutors said. \u201cSun obtained this proclamation from an Office of Correspondence employee outside ordinary channels and did not follow protocol by seeking supervisory authorization to create such a proclamation,\u201d the indictment reads. The Office of Correspondence employee mailed the proclamation to Sun\u2019s personal address, and Sun sent a gift basket to the home of a relative of the employee, the indictment said. When questioned by the NYS Office of the Inspector General, Sun initially denied requesting any proclamations since moving to the Department of Labor, but later admitted to requesting the Lunar New Year proclamation for a PRC official, the document said. March 2, 2023: Sun is terminated from her position with the Department of Labor. However, Sun reportedly continued to attend events held by Asian community members claiming to represent the Department of Labor, the indictment said. August 10, 2023: Sun received a cease-and-desist letter from the Department of Labor, which said she \u201callegedly attended public and professional events purporting to represent [her]self as an agency official\u201d after she was terminated, the indictment said. July 2024: Federal investigators raided a home belonging to Sun and Hu. Cuomo and Hochul condemn Sun\u2019s alleged actions Hochul called Sun\u2019s alleged behavior \u201ca betrayal of trust\u201d that left the governor furious, outraged and \u201cabsolutely shocked,\u201d she said during an appearance with WNYC radio. Hochul said her office fired Sun in 2023 \u201cthe second we discovered some levels of misconduct\u201d and \u201calerted the authorities \u2013 and hence we ended up with what happened here today.\u201d The depth of the allegations against Sun was apparent to the governor and her staff only after reading details of the indictment, said Hochul, who emphasized to WNYC that Sun worked less than two years for her administration and was initially hired by the previous one. Rich Azzopardi, a spokesperson for Cuomo, said in a statement that national security \u201cmust be free from foreign influence.\u201d \u201cWhile Ms. Sun was promoted to deputy chief of staff in the subsequent administration, during our time she worked in a handful of agencies and was one of many community liaisons who had little to no interaction with the governor,\u201d the statement said. CNN\u2019s Mark Morales and Gloria Pazmino contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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