BROOKLYN — A New York jury has now heard in vivid detail what federal agents say they found when they raided the homes and bank boxes of former Cuomo–Hochul aide Linda Sun and her family: a 2024 Ferrari parked outside a Long Island mansion with a golf simulator and bar, Hermès boxes and high-end watches inside, a silver Rolex taken from her father-in-law’s wrist, and more than $130,000 in cash bundled in $100 bills from a family safe-deposit box.
It is exactly the kind of emotive, detail-heavy evidence of luxury beyond a civil servant’s means that could sway a jury, Texas criminal defense lawyer Samuel Bassett told The Bureau in a previous analysis, because it makes the government’s narrative of “greed and betrayal” tangible.
Sun, a longtime political aide who handled Asian and immigrant outreach for former New York governors Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul, is accused of secretly acting at the direction of Chinese consular and community-network figures while steering multimillion-dollar PPE contracts to companies linked to her husband, Chris Hu…