The glamorous former CIA analyst, who is accused of working as a secret agent in South Korea, dodged questions from The Washington Post about the shocking allegation that he hailed a taxi, then ran a red light and fled the scene.
Sue Mi Terry, 54, nervously glanced at her phone and over her shoulder as she left her nearly $2 million Upper West Side home Thursday morning, two days after she was arrested by federal authorities on charges of acting as a foreign agent.
When The Washington Post caught up with Mr. Terry outside his clinic on West 72nd Street, he tried to hail a cab to avoid questions, but when none came, he told a reporter he was “really late” and ultimately denied being a foreign agent.
When The Post asked why she was being charged, she replied: “Everything will be explained.”
“My lawyers are working on it.”
Terry then hopped into a cab and drove around the Upper East Side aimlessly before pulling up near Park Avenue, where he appears to have paid the driver.
But Terry remained in the taxi, which sped off and ran a red light to elude The Post.
The pursuit began after Terri and her husband, Max Boot, a national security columnist for The Washington Post, posted their luxury Upper West Side condominium as collateral for her $500,000 personal bond as a condition of her pretrial release.
According to a listing on StreetEasy, the six-room, $1.8 million early 20th century home features gorgeous wood paneling, built-in bookshelves, stained-glass windows and airy 10-foot ceilings.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan say a penchant for such luxuries led Mr. Terry, a Seoul native who once worked as a CIA analyst and later became a prominent policy expert with ties to several think tanks, to leak U.S. secrets to a South Korean spy.
Prosecutors said Terry received luxury items, including a $3,450 Louis Vuitton handbag and a $2,845 Dolce & Gabbana coat, in exchange for access to information on senior U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
During her mad dash from The Washington Post, Terry appeared to have swapped her designer clothes for a more modest look: cut-off straight-leg jeans, a sleeveless blouse and chunky-heeled ankle boots.
As part of her bail conditions, Terry also had to surrender her passport. Her next court date is July 30.
Her lawyer, Lee Waloskey, said President Biden Selected as White House Counsellor In a statement, they claimed the accusations against Terry were baseless and claimed, without providing any backing, that she had been a harsh critic of the South Korean government.
“Once the facts come out, it will become clear that the government made a serious error,” he said.
