Council candidate under fire for bragging about role in NYC COVID efforts — despite living in Indiana

Longtime Democratic operative Susan Zhuang claimed at a Brooklyn Young Democrats event earlier this month that she persuaded local businesses to donate to food pantries and spearheaded a huge drive…

candidate running to represent a new Asian-majority district in southern Brooklyn is under fire for boasting about spearheading major neighborhood relief efforts during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — when she was living over 700 miles away in Indiana.

“I did get 80,000 masks for all the hospitals in New York City,” she bragged to the group, according to a video of the event reviewed by The Post.Bensonhurst Jin Chiu, a longtime Asian-American community activist and former staffer for the Assembly Democrats, said it’s “outrageous” for Zhuang to claim that she helped New Yorkers during the pandemic.

A campaign spokesperson for Zhaung said the pol “worked tirelessly to provide” personal protective equipment during the pandemic for a local hospital in Indiana but skirted questions about her claims of doing similar work in New York and could not immediately provide proof.

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