by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 20 – 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.
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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.
Guo was convicted. And on September 10 Judge Torres granted a defense letter motion and moved Guo's sentencing to December 9: "GRANTED IN PART. Sentencing is this matter is adjourned to December 9, 2024"
Letter and endorsement (order) on Patreon here
On November 22 for Yvette Wang the US Attorney's Office asked for a ten year sentence, 31 page sentence memo on Patreon here.
On December 13, with nothing in the public docket asking for or explaining it, Judge Torres scheduled a change of counsel for Guo.
Inner City Press went on December but was quickly asked to leave the courtroom. When allowed to return, from the thread:
On Miles Guo, sentencing has just been postponed; the lawyers who defended him at trial have a filing due Dec 30. Will it be public?
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The case is US v. Guo, et al., 23-cr-118 (Torres)
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