A former New York official accused of working for China said that Gov. Kathy Hochul as the state’s lieutenant governor was “much more obedient” than Andrew Cuomo, who was the governor, in a message to a Chinese consulate official, according to evidence presented at the former aide’s trial.
Linda Sun, 42, had convinced Hochul to record a Lunar New Year video touting China’s New York consulate when she made the remark, the New York Post reported.
“She is much more obedient than the governor,” Sun wrote to China consular official Lihua Li in a Jan. 25, 2021, message shown to jurors in Brooklyn federal court earlier this week. The messages were made public on Thursday.
“The deputy governor listens to me more than the governor does,” Sun wrote in another text minutes later to Huang Ping, who headed the consulate office at the time.
Sun took credit for convincing Hochul to film the video for the Chinese Consulate in which she wished viewers “happy New Year” in Mandarin.
