Kathy Hochul’s Team Denies Request for Records on Chinese Ties

Governor Kathy Hochul’s office last week denied National Review’s request for government records and correspondence relating to her numerous interactions with the Chinese consulate general and pro-Beijing groups in New York.

I had initially filed the request in March, months before the FBI raid in July at the Long Island mansion of Linda Sun, a former deputy chief of staff to Hochul, and before her arrest in September on charges that she worked as an unregistered agent for the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party. My intent was to get to the bottom of Hochul’s strange, Beijing-friendly posture — an outlier among prominent U.S. politicians these days.

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Jimmy Quinn

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Governor Kathy Hochul’s office last week denied National Review’s request for government records and correspondence relating to her numerous interactions with the Chinese consulate general and pro-Beijing groups in New York.

I had initially filed the request in March, months before the FBI raid in July at the Long Island mansion of Linda Sun, a former deputy chief of staff to Hochul, and before her arrest in September on charges that she worked as an unregistered agent for the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party. My intent was to get to the bottom of Hochul’s strange, Beijing-friendly posture — an outlier among prominent U.S. politicians these days.