Guo
Staffer Yvette
Wang Requested
Info From Pre
Trial Services
Now Gets 2
More Weeks
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
May 8 – After
a circus-like
civil case
involving Guo
Wengui in SDNY,
which Inner
City Press
closely
covered, here,
March 15, 2023
saw the
unsealing of a
criminal
indictment.
Not mentioned was
another, related arrest on
March 15, of Guo's chief of
staff Yanping Wang, aka Yvette
Wang. Inner City Press live
tweeted her presentment when
the prosecutors offered
release on $5 million bond,
but only with two co-signers
they approve.
On March
22, Inner City Press was again
the only media in the SDNY
Magistrates Court when Yvette
Wang and her two lawyers
showed up, complaining that a
proposed suretor with a $2.5
million property was rejected.
Afterward Inner City Press
asked Wang's lawyer Alex
Lipman to confirm it is or was
Steve Bannon. He said, "We're
not going to answer."
Inner City Press' vlog,
and live tweeted thread here.
More on Substack
here
On March 24 after
11 pm Wang's lawyer, trying to
get out of representing Jen
Shah, proposed eight names -
letter on Patreon here.
On Sunday
April 2 the prosecutors
provided an update, full
letter on Patreon here.
On April 21, the
date after District Judge
Analisa Torres denied bail for
Miles Guo Wengui, Magistrate
Judge Robert W. Lehrburger
followed suit and denied bail
for Yvette Wang. Full order on
Patreon here.
On April 27-28,
Wang through counsel requested
from Judge Torres an order for
information from Pre-Trial
Services, beginning "we write
to request Your Honor order
the Pretrial Services Office
for the Southern District of
New York to provide the
following information: 1. The
name and contact information
for the Pretrial Services
trainee who participated in
Ms. Wang’s pretrial interview;
2. Any written list of
questions or script, whether
formal or informal, that
Pretrial Officer Jessica
Aguilar-Adan used during Ms.
Wang’s pretrial interview, or,
if there is no such list or
script" - full filing on
Patreon here.
On May 4 Judge
Torres ordered: "ORDER as to
Yanping Wang: By May 11, 2023,
the Government shall respond
to Defendant Wang's letter
dated April 27, 2023, filed at
ECF No. 59, stating whether it
objects to Defendant's
request. SO ORDERED. (Signed
by Judge Analisa Torres on
5/4/2023)." Order on Patreon here.
On May 5, Wang's
counsel asked for an extension
of the time to file a motion
against the Magistrate's
detention order, until 14 days
after they get the Pre-Trial
Services information (if they
get it) - "We cannot
adequately respond to the
detention order until we
receive and review this
information. Therefore, we
herein object to Magistrate
Lehrburger’s detention order,
and respectfully request the
Court permit us to file a
motion to revoke the detention
order under 18 U.S.C. §
3145(b) fourteen days after we
receive the requested
information from Pretrial
Services" - full letter on
Patreon here.
On May 8, Judge
Torres granted the request:
"MEMO ENDORSEMENT granting
[65] LETTER MOTION filed by
Yanping Wang (3), addressed to
Judge Analisa Torres from
Attorney Alex Lipman dated May
5, 2023 re: Permission to file
motion to revoke the detention
order 14 days after receipt of
information from pretrial
services. ENDORSEMENT:
GRANTED. SO ORDERED. (Signed
by Judge Analisa Torres on
5/8/2023)." Letter on Patreon
here.
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