Guo
Staffer Yvette
Wang Requested
Info From Pre
Trial Services
Now Some
Granted Some
Not
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY
COURTHOUSE
May 16, – 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 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 11, the US
Attorney's Office responded
that such information, on Form
PS2, is never given out and if
it is, here, only defendant's
assets should be left
unredacted. Full letter on
Patreon here.
On May 16, Judge
Torres denied in part and
granted in part Wang's motion,
beginning "The Court has
reviewed the parties’ letters
dated April 27 and May 11,
2023. ECF Nos. 59, 67.
Defendant’s request for a
court order requiring Pretrial
Services to provide certain
information is GRANTED in
part, and DENIED in part.
Specifically, Defendant’s
request for an order is: 1.
DENIED as to the name and
contact information of the
Pretrial Services trainee who
participated in Defendant’s
pretrial interview. 2. GRANTED
in part as to the notes taken
by the trainee. Pretrial
Services shall provide
Defendant with the trainee’s
notes or a statement that they
do not exist. 3. GRANTED as to
the written list of questions
or script used during
Defendant’s pretrial
interview, or a statement that
one does not exist. 4. GRANTED
as to the written list of
questions or script shared
with the trainee in advance of
Defendant’s pretrial
interview, or a statement that
one does not exist" - full
order on Patreon here.
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