A former high-ranking aide for Gov. Kathy Hochul and disgraced Gov. Andrew Cuomo was arrested along with her husband Tuesday on charges she acted as a foreign agent for China in exchange for millions of dollars in kickbacks and fancy perks such as salted ducks.

The damning 64-page indictment accuses Linda Sun, 41, and her husband, Christopher Hu, 40, of laundering and splurging their corrupt gains on a gaudy $4 million Manhasset mansion, a $2 million second home in a Honolulu high-rise and luxury cars like a 2024 Ferrari Roma.

Sun shadily used her position under Hochul and Cuomo – who are unnamed but clearly referenced in the court documents – to turn the governor’s office into a virtual mouthpiece for the People’s Republic of China and Chinese Community Party, the bombshell indictment contends.

At several points, Sun bragged to Chinese consulate officials about effectively blocking Cuomo and Hochul from meeting with or publicly even mentioning Taiwan, including when the disputed island sent 200,000 much-needed masks to New York during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, documents state. 

“The defendant Linda Sun received substantial economic and other benefits from representatives of the PRC government and the CCP, including the facilitation of millions of dollars in transactions for the PRC-based business activities of Sun’s husband, the defendant Chris Hu,” the indictment reads in part.

An emotionless Sun and Hu both pleaded not guilty to sprawling charges of violating and conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act, visa fraud, alien smuggling and money laundering conspiracy during a 30-minute arraignment hearing in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday afternoon.

Both Sun and Hu were released on $1.5 million and $500,000 bonds, respectively, but will have their travel limited to New York City, Long Island, Maine and New Hampshire while the case is pending. 

They declined to comment when reporters asked them questions as they left court, but Sun’s lawyer, Jarrod Schaeffer, said, “Our client is understandably upset that these charges have been brought,” and added that “we are looking forward to addressing the allegations in the proper venue, which is in court.”

The shocking charges clears up the mystery as to why FBI agents raided Sun’s and Hu’s Long Island mansion in July.

The indictment details years of efforts by Sun, allegedly at the request of the Chinese consulate, to minimize contact between Taiwanese government officials and New York’s governor’s office under both Cuomo and Hochul starting in 2016.

She boasted about her successful efforts in messages to Chinese officials that often revealed behind-the-scenes tellings of how decisions were made by the governor’s office, the indictment contends.

“I almost had a heart attack when we referred to Taiwan as a country,” she texted one Chinese official about an October 2020 press release, the indictment states. “Thankfully I had the press team correct it immediately.”

As Sun blocked Taiwanese officials’ access to top New York officials, she looped Chinese counterparts into sensitive discussions, including one private March 2020 government call about the response to the then-burgeoning pandemic, the indictment states.

In one instance, Sun successfully got Cuomo to publicly thank “PRC Official 1” – who appears to be Consul General Huang Ping – on social media for helping line up 1 million surgical masks for New York essential workers, documents state.

The indictment mentions PRC Official 1 a whopping 42 times.

At another point, Sun received praise from the official believed to be Huang after she claimed to have blocked a speechwriter from having Hochul mention the plight of the Uyghurs – a Muslim minority group in China persecuted by the Chinese government – in a Lunar New Year message.

The relationship between the US and China “turn sour because of people like the speechwriter,” Huang messaged Sun, according to the indictment.

Huang’s apparent gratitude for Sun’s alleged two-faced actions ranged from simple compliments to extravagant gifts, according to the indictment.

The official’s personal chef even prepared “Nanjing-style salted ducks” that were delivered to Sun’s parents, the indictment states.

Investigators found four such salty duck quid pro quos, as well as a dinner for Sun’s family at Huang’s house, documents state.

Chinese consulate officials couldn’t be reached for comment.

Court papers accuse Hu of laundering money by opening up bank accounts in the name of a close relative, but that were actually for his exclusive use.

Many details about the alleged money laundering scheme remained scant Tuesday, but documents contend Hu’s business ventures in China ended up generating millions through Sun’s corrupt double-dealings that he funneled to the US.

Hu’s Queens-based seafood company and wine store, meanwhile, officially made little money, the documents state.

The couple brazenly claimed in tax filings that the seafood business actually lost more than $53,000, in 2021 and earned just roughly $123,000 in 2023 and $50,000 in 2024 at the same time that their Beijing handlers were pumping millions into the business, court papers say.

Sun dismissed a relative who raised concerns in 2020 about if people would wonder how they could afford the Long Island manse.

“Mortgage,” Sun matter of factly replied in an electronic message, the indictment says.

The Post visited an address connected to the seafood business, which turned out to be a house on a residential block in Queens. A woman at the home said she rented it and didn’t know of any business registered there.

A worker at the liquor store – Leivine Wine and Spirits, along a quiet stretch of   Farrington Street just off of busy Northern Boulevard – waved off The Post. 

Prosecutor Alexander Solomon revealed during the arraignment that the scheme involved a “multitude of shell entities” and that the feds subpoenaed records of 80 different financial accounts.

“This is no ordinary financial fraud,” Solomon said. 

Sun, while working under Hochul, ultimately ran afoul of her New York employers, according to documents.

She went beyond her authority by obtaining and publicly presenting an official New York State proclamation for Huang in January 2023, the indictment states.

She obtained the proclamation – a largely ceremonial honor that’s nonetheless valued by many officials – “outside ordinary channels” and sent state staffers who created the honor a personal gift basket and wine, according to the indictment.

Sun was interviewed by the Inspector General’s office a few weeks later in February and was fired on March 2.

A spokesperson for Hochul’s office noted Sun was hired by the Executive Chamber more than a decade ago.

“We terminated her employment in March 2023 after discovering evidence of misconduct, immediately reported her actions to law enforcement and have assisted law enforcement throughout this process,” the spokesperson said in a statement.

Cuomo’s spokesman Rich Azzopardi, meanwhile, pointed fingers at Hochul.

“While Ms Sun was promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff in the subsequent administration, during our time she worked in a handful of agencies and was one of many community liaisons who had little to no interaction with the governor,” he said.

– Additional reporting by Zoe Hussain