Saratoga Standard

Senator Jim Tedisco (R,C-Ballston Lake) has called for a state legislative investigation following the indictment of Linda Sun, a former top aide to Governor Hochul and former Governor Cuomo, on charges of acting as an illegal agent for the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York indicted Sun yesterday.

Sun, who served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Hochul and held several high-level positions under former Governor Cuomo, is accused in the federal indictment of engaging in various political activities favoring the PRC and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). These activities allegedly included obstructing Taiwanese government representatives from accessing high-level New York State officers, altering messaging by state officers on issues important to the PRC and CCP, obtaining unauthorized official proclamations for PRC representatives, attempting to facilitate a trip to the PRC by a high-level New York State politician, and arranging meetings between visiting PRC delegations and New York State officials.

“Given the seriousness of this alleged spy’s betrayal, it’s critical that the New York State legislature and our Investigations Committee hold a public hearing and investigate this national security breach for potential economic piracy. We need to examine the impact this agent for the PRC, who for a decade was embedded at the highest levels of our state government, had both in terms of influencing New York State policy, and in potentially exposing trade secrets of U.S. and New York-based companies that interact with the state to intellectual piracy by the Chinese government, as well as impacting relations with Taiwan and other countries,” said Senator Jim Tedisco (R,C-Ballston Lake).

Attached is Senator Tedisco’s letter to the Chair of the NYS Senate Investigations Committee.