U.S.! 郭文贵, HO WAN KWOK, Miles Guo, Guo Wengui, Yvette Wang2025.1.6 Self-exiled Chinese businessman’s chief of staff, 45-year-old Yvette Wang(Yanping) gets 10 years in prison2024.9.19 The Manhattan penthouse tied to convicted Chinese fraudster Guo Wengui is back on the market for $24 million, a staggering downfall from its initial $86 million asking price. He lived in this unit, with its breathtaking views of Central Park, which he purchased for $67.5 million in 2015, while he waited for political asylum that never came. Instead, by March of 2023, the FBI showed up at dawn to arrest him for orchestrating a billion-dollar fraud scheme. But while FBI agents where still at the penthouse, a mysterious blaze erupted.2024.7.16 Guo Wengui, the exiled Chinese billionaire, was convicted in a US federal court on Tuesday for defrauding thousands of his followers of more than $1 billion. Guilty of nine out of 12 counts involving racketeering conspiracy and securities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering, Guo, who is also known as Miles Guo, “faces decades in prison” when the judge hands down a sentence on November 19, according to the prosecutor. After the verdict, Guo smiled at his lawyers and dozens of staunch supporters, who stuffed the courtroom throughout the seven-week trial in New York. 2024.7.10 ‘The real Miles Guo’: Prosecutors lead with expletive-laden tape in close of $1 billion fraud case. “Fuck off, fuck off,” Guo yelled at a subordinate on a 2021 phone call, played to the court on Wednesday during the prosecution’s summation. The trial, now in its seventh week, culminated with roughly six hours of summations Wednesday. 2024.7.9 Guo Wengui rests $1 billion fraud case with testimony from ex-DOJ employee. The case could be in the jury’s hands by the end of the week.2024.7.3 A defense witness testified Wednesday at the trial of Guo Wengui.2024.7.2 Federal prosecutors on Tuesday rested their case against Guo Wengui2024.6.21 ‘I was never in control’: Former Himalaya Exchange CEO testifies in case over H-Coin cryptocurrency2024.6.18 Former CEO of G CLUBS testifies against mogul Guo Wengui2024.6.13 The list of Guo Wengui’s purported fraud victims continues to grow as the trial of the exiled Chinese businessman extends into its third week of testimony. Minran Ru said Guo’s schemes cost her $15,000. “He’s just a liar,”“He’s very good at acting and cheating.”2024.6.6, Ya Li(李娅) was once a part of the “Iron Blood Group,”Li said she passionately helped Guo raise millions of dollars for his projects. “The whole movement is a scam,” Li said Thursday. “He cheated us.”2024.6.4, Jenny Li said she first heard about Guo Wengui on a radio station in 2017.“I believed whatever he said,” Li told a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday. Li, a middle-aged woman who testified in Mandarin through a translator, told the court she invested more than $100,000 total in Guo’s businesses thinking she was getting stocks in return. In reality, Li said she got “nothing.”“Miles Guo stole my money,” she testified. 2024.5.28, A former supporter of Guo Wengui said Tuesday he spent over $100,000 investing in the exiled Chinese billionaire’s ventures, but was blacklisted after asking for a refund.2024.5.25, A self-exiled wealthy Chinese businessman became an internet sensation and conned thousands of people worldwide into sending him $1 billion, enabling him to spend lavishly on a mansion, two yachts and even a $35,000 mattress, a prosecutor told a New York jury Friday at the start of his fraud trial. Guo Wengui, 57, promised his online followers that they’d get rich before he blew their investments on a lavish lifestyle and risky investments, Assistant U.S. Attorney Micah Fergenson said. He said Guo “ran a simple con on a grand scale.” “He lived a billionaire’s lifestyle from money he stole from people he tricked and cheated,” Fergenson said.2024.5.24, Trial of Steve Bannon-Linked Chinese Mogul Set to Begin With Anonymous Jury. When Torres ruled last month that the jury would be partially anonymous, she noted that she had already concluded that Guo had demonstrated a willingness to tamper with judicial proceedings by posting videos and releasing social media encouraging followers to “persevere” with protests at homes and offices of a bankruptcy trustee and his lawyer. On Wednesday and Thursday, about 20 Guo supporters assembled in an overflow room to watch the proceedings.2024.5.3 郭文贵的幕僚长(管家)王雁平(Yvette Wang)周五承认与郭文贵合谋实施一项大规模骗局,诈骗数千名投资者超过10亿美元。45岁的Yvette Wang在曼哈顿联邦法院承认共谋实施电信欺诈和洗钱罪。王雁平的认罪是在53岁的郭文贵因相关指控在曼哈顿联邦法院受审的几周前做出的。在王认罪之前,按计划王将与郭一起接受审判。在周五的听证会上,王承认在2018年至2023年期间,与郭文贵等人合谋,通过郭文贵的GTV媒体集团、喜马拉雅农场联盟和喜马拉雅交易所等实体,欺诈性地诱导受害者汇款2024.4.3 美國曼哈頓地方法院2日拒絕郭文貴要求駁回一件起訴案的請求,這項起訴指控他涉嫌詐欺數千名投資者超過10億美元。檢方指控郭文貴涉嫌透過4項詐欺計畫進行敲詐勒索,並且證實這起案件需進行審判。根據起訴書,郭文貴及其同夥詐騙了一家媒體公司、加密貨幣和其他企業的投資者。郭文貴藉由承諾給予巨額回報和其他好處,並利用其網路高影響力和數十萬粉絲獲利。這些計畫實際上使得共謀者為自己和家人謀利,並資助了郭文貴「奢侈的生活方式」2024.1.4 Exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui hit with new RICO conspiracy charge. Federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday added an expansive racketeering count against Chinese financier Guo Wengui, who is accused of orchestrating a $1 billion fraud conspiracy. Wengui’s first indictment included criminal counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, securities fraud, international money laundering and obstruction of justice.