A former top aide to Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul was China’s “woman in New York state government,” prosecutors said this week during the closing arguments in her criminal trial in Brooklyn federal court.

“Linda Sun betrayed the state of New York to enrich herself,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Solomon told jurors Tuesday. “She did the bidding of the Chinese government so that she and her husband, Chris Hu, could get rich.”

The case against Sun carries international political implications that an unregistered foreign agent worked within the offices of two Democratic governors to advance policy favorable to the Chinese government. She faces charges of being an unregistered foreign agent for China, as well as wire fraud, visa fraud and money laundering. Hu faces charges of he

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