Before he asks
for your vote, look closer.
Larry He is running for the New York State Senate in District 17. Before deciding who should represent you, look at the record: what he left off his résumé, how late Brooklyn became an address, and where the campaign money came from.
There is more to the story than what appears on a résumé.
He left it off his résumé.
Before New York politics, Larry He spent four years in senior positions at Guangxi Beibu Gulf Investment Group, an enterprise owned by the Guangxi regional government. He was chairman of its oil subsidiary. He also held parent-company roles in asset management and investment promotion, and traveled as a company representative to California and Australia.
That chapter was not on a recent résumé.
He later acknowledged he intentionally left his China business history off the page “to avoid causing concern.” He told the New York Times he did not disclose the work to anyone on Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral campaign. The campaign paid him $15,000, named him an adviser and Asian outreach director, and accepted his resignation in June 2025 after the Times and the New York Post examined the file.
If the work was routine, why hide it? If it would cause concern, why should voters hear it only after reporters asked?
The China connection didn’t end in 2015.
The state-enterprise job ended. The China-connected activity did not.
The public record identifies later roles involving Chinese capital, investors, suppliers, or operations:
- He helped Kentucky-based Two Rivers Fisheries find Chinese investors and buyers.
- He was a managing partner at Syracuse-based OneStream Capital, whose founder had a background in China-based venture investment.
- He was reported to own Interstellar Enterprise, an import business buying plastic bottles from a Shenzhen supplier; the company was dissolved at the end of 2024.
- He was reported as a partner at Penshare-Banyu Technology, a Chongqing consulting firm. After the Post sought comment, the firm removed his online profile.
In 2023 and 2024 he sat on the board of United Chinese Americans. Reporting identified UCA-connected individuals with backgrounds in the Chinese government, the CCP, or organizations linked to Chinese intelligence or the United Front Work Department.
The record does not establish that Larry He personally took part in those activities.
It does establish the question: how much of his China-related background did voters know before he asked for a Senate seat?
When did Brooklyn become home?
- 2016Upstate rootsHe already owned a five-bedroom home in Manlius, outside Syracuse. He still does.
- Nov 25, 2024Kings County voterHe becomes an active Kings County (Brooklyn) voter.
- Dec 30, 2024Brooklyn condoHe buys a Brooklyn condominium — five weeks after the voter file.
Five weeks between the voter file and the condo. The upstate house stayed on the books.
- 2006Interned for Assemblyman William Colton.
- Jan 2024Became Colton’s chief of staff.
- Mar 2025Joined the Cuomo mayoral campaign.
- Jun 2025Out of the Cuomo campaign.
- 2026Running for State Senate.
A local activist told the Post that people did not know where he had come from.
The dates speak for themselves. When did Brooklyn become his political home?
Follow the money.
At least $4,000 came from three social adult day-care businesses in a Medicaid-funded sector CMS now lists as high-risk:
- Asian Senior Day Care$2,000
- Fu Kang Senior Center Inc.$1,000
- SDC Social Daycare Center Inc.$1,000
Those three donors were not named in the enforcement cases reviewed. The industry around them was: questionable billing, unsupported claims, capacity violations, patient-recruitment abuses, hundreds of centers referred for investigation, and prosecutions against other operators measured in the tens and hundreds of millions. New York led the nation in adult day-care Medicaid payments.
The question is not whether these three donors were charged. They were not in the cases reviewed.
The question is why the campaign took the checks.
Since 2024, He has also received $112,108 in taxpayer-funded Assembly pay. Personal financial-disclosure records were still unavailable when this research closed.
What we know.
- He held senior posts at a Chinese state-owned enterprise — and kept working China-connected business after he left.
- He sat on the UCA board.
- He admitted leaving the China history off his résumé “to avoid causing concern,” and left the Cuomo campaign when that history became public.
- He built his Kings County voter file and bought a Brooklyn condo in five weeks, while keeping the Syracuse-area house.
- His campaign took money from businesses in an industry under state and federal scrutiny.
These are not separate stories. They are one record.
What voters should ask.
- Q01Why was the China chapter left off the résumé?
- Q02Why did it surface only after he joined a major campaign?
- Q03What should District 17 know about those years at a Chinese state-owned enterprise — and the work that followed?
- Q04Why establish a Brooklyn political base so late, then run for the Senate?
- Q05What vetting did the campaigns that elevated him actually do?
- Q06Why accept contributions from a heavily scrutinized industry?
Larry He is asking voters to trust him with a seat in the New York State Senate on November 3, 2026.
- Look at what he disclosed.
- Look at what he left out.
- Look at when Brooklyn became an address.
- Look at the money.
Do you know the whole story?