Hochul condemns former aide charged with working for China: ‘Betrayal of trust’

Hochul condemns former aide charged with working for China: ‘Betrayal of trust’


Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) reacted Tuesday night to her former aide Linda Sun’s indictment, which alleged that she worked for the Chinese government as an undisclosed foreign agent, in an interview with NPR.

Sun worked under Hochul as her deputy chief of staff.

“I’m furious, and I’m outraged and absolutely shocked at how brazen her behavior was,” Hochul said. “It was a betrayal of trust — the trust of government, the trust of the people. And I’ll tell you this: The second we discovered some levels of misconduct, we fired her, we alerted the authorities. and, hence, we ended up with what happened here today.

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“We’ve been working with the Department of Justice in this investigation, and we’ll continue to make sure that all the

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