Linda Sun’s high heels clicked evenly on the terrazzo floor as she proceeded on Wednesday afternoon from the elevators on the 10th floor of Brooklyn federal court, where she is facing charges of being an agent for China in exchange for money and gifts. She was accompanied by her husband, Chris Hu, who is also her co-defendant. He stands accused of visa fraud and laundering money that Sun allegedly received from the People's Republic of China during her 11 years in New York State government.
Both Sun, 40, and Hu, 41, were clad in fashionable black as they entered the courtroom and joined their lawyers at the defendants’ table. Sun is as tall and slender as a classic fashion model and she exhibited an understated elegance with pearl earrings, a thin gold chain on her neck, and an even thinner, barely visible on her left ankle. A knock signaled for everyone to rise as U.
S. District Court Judge Brian Cogan entered the room. A court officer called out the number of the indictment that was unsealed three weeks ago.
“24-CR-346. USA versus Linda Sun and Chris Hu.” Sun and Hu had pleaded not guilty at their arraignment on Sept.
4. They now were back for a hearing for some preliminary legal housekeeping. She sat, erect with perfect posture, her hands folded in front of her.
Among the many accusations in the indictment’s 64 pages is an allegation that when Sun visited Beijing in 2018, a Chinese official arranged for her to stay in a presidential suite where Michelle Obama once.