Mei Ping Sun was preparing for a trip last summer when roughly a dozen armed FBI agents showed up at the door of her Flushing apartment, she told jurors in federal court in Brooklyn Tuesday. She said she still recalls the flecks of white shaving cream on her ex-husband’s face as they stood outside in the hall with agents.

Over a year later, Mei Ping Sun stands at the center of her daughter’s criminal trial — a case with international political reverberations. Linda Sun, a former aide to Govs. Kathy Hochul and Andrew Cuomo, is accused of influencing state politics as an unregistered Chinese agent in exchange for bribes.

Prosecutors say Linda Sun and her husband, Chris Hu, used a bank account in Mei Ping Sun’s name as part of a money laundering network to conceal gifts and payoffs from C

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