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.

The indictment states that at the onset of the pandemic, the Cuomo administration moved to buy PPE from China to alleviate shortages in New York. Sun, who worked to coordinate the deal, added a company run by her husband and another run by her second cousin to a list of vendors recommended by the Chinese government.

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