Yet another New York official appeared to have ties to a foreign government as a report revealed the potentially outgoing NYPD commissioner’s “right hand” man’s link to the Chinese Communist Party.
As New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said, the Big Apple “has a brand,” and of late that brand has involved federal raids and calls for NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban to resign. Now, in a seemingly unrelated report, the New York Post detailed that the commish’s top aide, “handpicked” by Hizzoner, “is associated with shadowy groups that do the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Wednesday, the newspaper explained how 49-year-old Lin Gui’an, the Assistant Director of the Police Commissioner Liaison Unit, had spent a dozen years as an executive for a nonprofit said to push CCP propaganda.
“The role of United Front is to spread Chinese propaganda in the US, overseen by the United Front Work Department, funded and controlled by the central government in China,” stated the outlet of the group tied to a network of CCP-controlled community groups and school associations that Lin had been vice chairman of for 12 years.
While the Post said Adams had “handpicked” the man for his position with the NYPD, despite limited police experience, an NYPD spokesperson contended Lin “came to the department as a Deputy Director which does not require mayoral approval. This was strictly a Police Commissioner appointment.”
United Front was not the only connection raised about the aide as the post detailed Lin’s connections to Winnie Greco, Adams’ special adviser and director of Asian affairs whose home was raided in February as the FBI looked for records of trips organized to China when the mayor was Brooklyn borough president.
The pair were said to have attended events together sponsored by nonprofit groups working with the Chinese Consulate in New York. Further, while Greco denied a CCP association to the Post, the newspaper reported her being listed as a “consultant” for the China-funded group Dong Guan Association from 2011 until 2023. That group had presented Lin with an award.
The post traced CCP connections all the way back to Lin’s arrival in the United States in 1993 as a student when he joined and became vice chairman of the Fujian Changle Nanxiang Benevolent Association of Eastern America.
He was also said to have been honored alongside two other NYPD members at a gala sponsored by the Fujian Tangtou Association, which sent members to San Francisco along with the Dong Guan Association and Lienchiang school group to welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping in November.
Additional raids were reported on the homes of First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks last week after campaign fundraiser Brianna Suggs and international affairs aide Rana Abbasova had been raided in November while Adams was probed over potential collusion with the Turkish government.
Caban himself faced pressure to resign as he too was embroiled in investigations that saw federal authorities seize his and his twin brother’s cell phones alleging James Caban worked as a fixer for bars and restaurants, according to CBS News.
All of this comes as a top aide, Linda Sun, who’d worked for former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) before becoming deputy chief of staff to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), only to be let go in 2023, was indicted for working as an undisclosed agent for China, which included her allegedly altering official statements to the liking of the Chinese government, visa fraud, money laundering conspiracy and alien smuggling.
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