In
Miles Guo
Trial Defense
Puts On Real
Estate Helper
About Arizona
and NJ Taurus
on Cross
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 8 – 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 of Miles Guo
onvarious wire fraud,
securities fraud, bank fraud,
and money laundering charges.
On May 22, Inner
City Press live tweeted jury
selection, here.
Many
were excused from the jury
pool.
More detail /
some analysis on X for
Subscribers here
& Substack here
At the end of May
23, Judge Torres told the
remaining jurors that the
trial would start Friday. Thread.
More details on X
for Subscribers here
and Substack here
And it did. Inner
City Press live tweeted the
opening and first two
witnesses, an FBI agent about
the Greenwich search, and a
Dallas based Lamborghini
dealer, thread here.
Jump cut to June
24, when in an order on
reconsideration it was ordered
that "Guo’s motion to
permit the testimony of Paul
Doran, his expert on the
Chinese Communist Party
(“CCP”), is GRANTED only as to
Doran’s testimony on (1) the
CCP’s opposition to specific
political causes for which Guo
has publicly advocated; and
(2) the “secret, extra-legal
Chinese police station”
identified in New York City,
and is otherwise DENIED"- full
17 page order on Patreon here.
On July 1, when
the trial did not meet, Guo's
lawyer wrote in that "the
defense reiterates that it
does not intend to argue to
the jury that the prosecution
team in this case or the U.S.
Attorney’s Office in general
are acting as agents of a
foreign power. But that is
entirely different from
arguing that the Chinese
Communist Party is seeking to
silence Mr. Guo through a
number of different methods,
including by forcing investors
to complain falsely to U.S.
courts and regulators about
Mr. Guo’s conduct" - full 8
page letter on Patreon here.
On July 2, after
the government completed its
case and rested, the defense
put on the stand a valuation
expert - and then Maggie Sklar
as a crypto expert, previously
with the Federal Reserve Bank
of Chicago, charging $1450 an
hour.
On July 3, as the
defense put on its Fox Hunt
expert, Paul Doran, questions
were asked about Broidy and,
yes, the expensive mattresses
(and COVID masks), thread
On July 8 the
defense put on a real estate
helper who accompanied Guo to
a property in Arizona and then
Mahwah, from the thread:
OK - Now in US v
Miles Guo, prosecutor cross
examining defense witness if
they knew H Coin was not
backed by gold. Inner City
Press is working on Fox hUNt
Guo and will live tweet:
AUSA: Are
you saying the G in G News is
not Guo? Witness: It does not
represent Mr. Guo.
Guo's
lawyer: I have an objection
under Rule 608 which I'm happy
to elaborate at a sidebar.
Judge: OK, let's have a
sidebar.Still on the stand,
defense witness who showed Guo
Arizona property.
AUSA: No
one bought it, right? Witness:
Right. AUSA: Mahwah, you
discussed with Yvette?
Witness: I did.
More detail and
analysis on X for Subscribers
here and Substack here
The case is US v.
Guo, et al., 23-cr-118
(Torres)
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