On Miles Guo
Wengui US Stayed SEC Case Now Opposes MOS
Bid to Lift and Sever
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 19 – After a
circus-like civil case
involving Guo Wengui in the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York,
which Inner City Press closely
covered, here,
March 15, 2023 saw the
unsealing of a twelve-count
Indictment charging
HO WAN KWOK,
a/k/a “Miles Guo,” a/k/a
“Miles Kwok,” a/k/a “Guo
Wengui,” a/k/a “Brother
Seven,” a/k/a “The Principal,”
and KIN MING JE, a/k/a
“William Je,” with various
wire fraud, securities fraud,
bank fraud, and money
laundering charges. JE,
who is KWOK’s financier, is
also charged with obstruction
of justice.
The
prosecutors said that "KWOK
was arrested this morning in
New York, New York, and will
be presented this
afternoon. JE is
currently at large."
Not mentioned was
another, related arrest on
March 15, of Guo's chief of
staff Yangping Wang, aka
Yvette Wang. Inner City Press,
lone media in the Magistrates
Court, live tweeted her
presentment when the
prosecutors, seemingly hoping
to flip her as a cooperator,
offered release on $5 million
bond, but only with two
co-signers they approve.
Minutes
later, in a larger courtroom,
Guo / Kwok was presented -
with a Federal Defender for
the day - and detained on
consent. Inner City Press live
tweeted, thread here
On March 31, Guo
put in his written argument,
on Patreon here.
But on April 20,
Judge Torres denied bail. Full
order on Patreon here.
On April 28, the
prosecutors wrote in asking to
stay the SEC action: they
"seek a complete stay of this
matter until the completion of
the trial or other disposition
in a parallel criminal case,
United States v. Ho Wan Kwok
et al., S1 23 Cr. 118 (AT)
(the “Criminal Case”). The
Criminal Case arises from the
same operative facts as this
proceeding... Defendant
Mountains of Spices LLC (d/b/a
“New York Farm”) would oppose
a stay on discovery, because
it indicated that it intends
to move to “sever” itself as a
defendant, but it noted
that—should the Court be
inclined to issue a
stay—Mountains of Spices
would" - full filing on
Patreon here.
Judge Gardephe
granted the motion: "Case
Stayed (ks)."
On May 17, 2023,
the US opposed any partial
lifting of the stay, stating
that "the leader of MOS, who
is the subject of the US'
ongoing investigation, had
been tapped by Kwok to be the
leader of Kwok's 'movement'...
the leader of MOS has been
streaming such videos from the
mansion in Mahway, NJ" - full
filing on Patreon here.
The SEC case is
Securities and Exchange
Commission v. Kwok et al.,
23-cv-2200 (Gardephe)
The case is US v.
Kwok, et al., 23-cr-118
(Torres)
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