| For Pras
Michel Trial for Jho Low Guo Link Denied
by US In Sworn Declaration from SDNY
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
FEDERAL
COURTHOUSE, March 20 – Pras
Michel faces trial starting
March 27 on charges of working
for Jho Low to lobby the Obama
then Trump administrations.
He also met with
China about Guo Wengui / Miles
Kwok, detained last week along
with his chief of staff Yvette
Wang on fraud charges - Inner
City Press story here,
stand-up here.
Jho Low book here.
Michel has requested a delay
in the trial, noting Guo's
arrest and recounting that
"Interpol issued a red notice
on Guo for crimes he committed
in China as well as the
repeated rape of a Chinese
woman in the United States
between September 2015 through
August 2016.3 Soon after
the Interpol Red Notice was
issued, Defendant Michel
contacted the FBI in the
Southern District of New York
to report his contact with
Chinese Vice Minister Sun
Lijun. Defendant met with FBI
Agent Andrew Zitman multiple
times in June 2017. He told
Agent Zitman about the Chinese
proposal to return American
hostages and provide other
consideration in exchange for
the return of Guo to China.
Furthermore, at Agent Zitman’s
request, Defendant went back
to the Chinese to gather tape
recordings requested by Agent
Zitman. 302s from these
encounters were prepared by
Agent Zitman for Case File No.
200D-NY-6219677.4
Notably, this file number is
different from Case File
numbers used to classify
official documents involving
George Higginbotham and
Elliott Broidy. For
Higginbotham and Broidy,
official 302s were both
associated with Case File No.
205B-NY-6730302, the 1MDB
investigation. (DOJ-0000094692
& DOJ-0002643527).
It appears Agent Zitman was
involved in an active
investigation of Guo Wengui at
the time he met with the
Defendant in June 2017. This
likely explains both why the
Case File No. is different and
why Defendant was interviewed
by Agent Zitman rather than
one of the agents assigned to
1MDB." Full 11-page filing on
Patreon here.
From the
Court, this: "counsel for
Defendant and the Government
shall make themselves
available for a hearing on
March 20, 2023 at 1:00 PM ET,
to proceed via Zoom. Signed by
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
on March 19, 2023."
On March
22, the lead prosecutor in the
SDNY's Guo case wrote: "The
charges in the Guo Indictment
relate to alleged fraud
conducted by Guo and others
(including co-defendant Kin
Ming Je, a/k/a “William Je”)
starting at least in or about
2018 and continuing through in
or about March 2023. (See Guo
Indictment at ¶¶ 25, 33, 35,
37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49,
51.) 7. The Guo Indictment
alleges information about
Guo’s background, including
that Guo fled to the United
States in or about 2015, and
further alleges that Guo
founded two purported
nonprofit organizations in or
about 2018 that he used “to
amass followers.” (See Guo
Indictment at ¶ 6).) 8.
Prakazrel Michel is not, and
has never been, a witness,
target, subject, or “person of
interest” in the Guo Case. I
declare under penalty of
perjury that the information
contained in this declaration
is true and correct." Full
declaration on Patreon here.
Michel,
formally Prakazrel Michel, has
subpoenaed Obama, Bill
Clinton, Rudy Giuliani and
Chris Christie.
Eliot Broidy, since pardoned,
and ex DOJ attorney George
Higginbotham and businesswoman
Nickie Lum Davis all pled out
in the case.
On
March 17 Michel's counsel
David Kenner updated U.S.
District Court for the
District of Columbia Judge
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly about
service:
"As of
yesterday, President William
J. Clinton has been attempted
and an individual named
'Chris' has responded to calls
saying that 'she is not
authorized to accept service
for the former president.'
Inner City
Press is tracking the cases,
and trial. Watch this site.
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