Former top New York aide Linda Sun is facing explosive new charges of bribery and wire fraud, deepening an already serious case involving pandemic-era PPE fraud and alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). According to prosecutors, Sun and her husband, Chris Hu, orchestrated a scheme during the COVID-19 crisis to funnel lucrative state PPE contracts to China-based vendors in exchange for millions in kickbacks. Sun, who once served under Governors Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul, allegedly used her influence to promote her cousin’s mask company while altering official documents to falsely claim their products were “the gold standard.” The couple allegedly made $2.3 million and expected to rake in over $8 million, per an internal spreadsheet titled “Me” found on Hu’s computer.

The FBI claims Sun also operated as an unregistered foreign agent, coordinating directly with Chinese officials—an act that, combined with the bribery scheme, “endangered American lives,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. Additional charges now include conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering through accounts opened under a relative’s name. The case adds fuel to growing fears over CCP infiltration and foreign threats to U.S. infrastructure.

It follows another alarming case: Chinese nationals Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu have been charged with smuggling Fusarium graminearum, a crop-destroying fungus labeled a potential “agroterrorism weapon,” into the U.S. These twin scandals have triggered renewed national security concerns about espionage, bio-threats, and the exploitation of America’s political and agricultural vulnerabilities.