Lining “Larry” He (贺立宁), a mayoral campaign aide to Andrew Cuomo, has stepped down from his role as Cuomo’s Asian outreach director after He was questioned about the years he spent working for companies tied to the 
CCP and his meteoric rise through the Democratic Party, which alarmed local politicos and national security experts alike.
He’s links to Beijing:
• as Director of Asset Management of state-owned Guangxi Beibu Gulf Investment, He pushed both California and Australia for deeper economic ties with China. Guangxi Beibu was among the biggest shareholders in a tin company whose investors included two people with close ties to the highest level of Chinese state power: the older sister and brother-in-law of Xi Jinping.
• He served from 2013 through 2015 as the former board chairman of Guangxi Beitou Petrochemical Company, a joint venture with state-owned Chinese oil giant Sinopec, according to a bio on the website of a commodity trading firm where He was a managing partner. The company’s current corporate organization chart shows it has an official CCP cell embedded in its leadership.
• a regulatory consulting firm called Penshare-Banyu Technology, based in Chongqing, listed He as a partner, but his picture and profile were subsequently deleted from Penshare-Banyu’s website, though it remains visible on Google.
• He owns import business InterStellar Enterprise, which ships plastic bottles into the US from a manufacturer based in Shenzhen. His wife, 
Jing Lei (most likely 雷静 of SUNY Oswego), formed a new company weeks after the couple moved to Brooklyn that import manifests show brought in roughly 8.5 tons of plastic bottles from China in May alone. [Both Jing Lei of SUNY Oswego and He graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology within the same time frame.]
He did not disclose any of these business relationships on mandatory filings he made as chief-of-staff to Assemblyman William Colton (D-Brooklyn), a job he started in late 2023 while living in upstate New York.
He has also been actively participating in events and activities involving united front groups where pro-Beijing figure John Chan (陈善庄) was also present.
After moving permanently to the US from China in 2016, He bought a $317,790 five-bedroom home the Syracuse suburbs with his wife Jing Lei (most likely 雷静 of SUNY Oswego), a longtime professor at the local state university.
He formed his import firm there in 2018, and held the role of managing partner at OneStream Capital, which is headquartered in the town where he lived and was founded by a veteran of the Beijing-controlled China Venturetech Investment Corporation.
He took his job with Colton in Dec 2023, and moved to Brooklyn for the gig, even though he kept his upstate home.
It wasn’t until Nov 2024 that He registered to vote in New York City, listing a rented condo on Bay Parkway in Bensonhurst as his residence and attesting on the form that he had never cast a ballot in his life. He said the registration coincided with him becoming a citizen.
Barely a month after becoming a New York City voter, the Kings County Democratic Party — led by Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn — appointed He as a district leader. Just days after the appointment, He and his wife bought their own $830,000 condo on Kings Highway.
In March, He was named to Cuomo’s campaign — stunning community stalwarts.
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CCP and his meteoric rise through the Democratic Party, which alarmed local politicos and national security experts alike.
He’s links to Beijing:
• as Director of Asset Management of state-owned Guangxi Beibu Gulf Investment, He pushed both California and Australia for deeper economic ties with China. Guangxi Beibu was among the biggest shareholders in a tin company whose investors included two people with close ties to the highest level of Chinese state power: the older sister and brother-in-law of Xi Jinping.
• He served from 2013 through 2015 as the former board chairman of Guangxi Beitou Petrochemical Company, a joint venture with state-owned Chinese oil giant Sinopec, according to a bio on the website of a commodity trading firm where He was a managing partner. The company’s current corporate organization chart shows it has an official CCP cell embedded in its leadership.
• a regulatory consulting firm called Penshare-Banyu Technology, based in Chongqing, listed He as a partner, but his picture and profile were subsequently deleted from Penshare-Banyu’s website, though it remains visible on Google.
• He owns import business InterStellar Enterprise, which ships plastic bottles into the US from a manufacturer based in Shenzhen. His wife, Jing Lei (most likely 雷静 of SUNY Oswego), formed a new company weeks after the couple moved to Brooklyn that import manifests show brought in roughly 8.5 tons of plastic bottles from China in May alone. [Both Jing Lei of SUNY Oswego and He graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology within the same time frame.]
He did not disclose any of these business relationships on mandatory filings he made as chief-of-staff to Assemblyman William Colton (D-Brooklyn), a job he started in late 2023 while living in upstate New York.
He has also been actively participating in events and activities involving united front groups where pro-Beijing figure John Chan (陈善庄) was also present.
After moving permanently to the US from China in 2016, He bought a $317,790 five-bedroom home the Syracuse suburbs with his wife Jing Lei (most likely 雷静 of SUNY Oswego), a longtime professor at the local state university.
He formed his import firm there in 2018, and held the role of managing partner at OneStream Capital, which is headquartered in the town where he lived and was founded by a veteran of the Beijing-controlled China Venturetech Investment Corporation.
He took his job with Colton in Dec 2023, and moved to Brooklyn for the gig, even though he kept his upstate home.
It wasn’t until Nov 2024 that He registered to vote in New York City, listing a rented condo on Bay Parkway in Bensonhurst as his residence and attesting on the form that he had never cast a ballot in his life. He said the registration coincided with him becoming a citizen.
Barely a month after becoming a New York City voter, the Kings County Democratic Party — led by Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn — appointed He as a district leader. Just days after the appointment, He and his wife bought their own $830,000 condo on Kings Highway.
In March, He was named to Cuomo’s campaign — stunning community stalwarts.
nypost.com/2025/06/14/us-
nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyr
