Posted on 02/10/2022 5:30:27 PM PST by Golden Eagle
A judge on Thursday issued a furious order targeting a Chinese billionaire and ally of Steve Bannon, a member of Donald Trump’s inner circle, ordering him to either pay $134m or face arrest for his violation of a previous court order.
In a ruling, a judge from the New York County Supreme Court excoriated Guo Wengui for hiding billions of dollars’ worth of assets around the US and elsewhere including in the form of a superyacht named the Lady May. Judge Barry Ostrager faulted Mr Guo in his ruling for hiding the craft outside of US jurisdiction in the Bahamas in violation of a previous order.
“Those proceedings established, among other things, that Kwok exercised dominion and control over a yacht called the Lady May and resulted in a series of orders restraining [Guo] and/or the registered owners of the yacht called Lady May from removing the Lady May from the Court’s jurisdiction,” wrote the judge.
Nevertheless, “[Guo] and his cohorts made arrangement for the Lady May to sail to Florida in early October 2020 and, thereafter, to the Bahamas,” the court filing continues, adding that a subsequent judgement ordered Mr Guo to return the yacht to US waters or face a fine of $500,000 per day.
That fine has now compounded to a $134m fee that Mr Guo was ordered on Thursday to pay within five business days, or risk arrest.
“The Court has the authority to hold [Mr Guo] in civil contempt ... and ‘“to punish [him], by fine and imprisonment’”, wrote the judge.
Mr Guo subsequently announced plans to flee the US on a livestream first reported by J Michael Waller of the Center for Security Policy, where he reportedly talked about leaving for Japan or possibly the UK.
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Sorry for the horrible source and title but there's nothing better out there right now.
Love the way they connect all such 5#it to PJDT.
Buggers.
I have no idea what this is all about. Is this American judge trying to enforce some ChiCom court’s orders?
Sounds like the judge is bought off by the CCP.
Hmmm...
Have not read about this previously...
However, it would be ideal to have some idea just what provoked this situation ab initio...
My tinfoil hat is glowing, about now, since I cannot imagine there being an honest, non-political judge or lawyer in foreign 3rd-world countries like New York...
For example, is this same judge (and his political staff) chasing down and threatening Hunter Biden?
Meanwhile, my tinfoil hat has convinced me that this is just another part of the massive communist purge that has been underway since the chicoms gained control of the WH...
The horror
This Chinese guy has already paid a half billion securities assessment
I think he can handle this...
Guo Wengui is very anti-CCP and played a big role in some of the info that was leaked from Hunter Biden’s laptop, IIRC (along with Lu De, Bannon, Giuliani, and others). I am sure this is a political hit - the Biden administration must really hate this guy...
Here is his web site: https://www.gnews.org/
The judge is not named. What the living hell is the matter with journalists these days?
Has nothing to do with either Bannon or President Trump.
He might have to go through the cushions of two couches though.
Judge Barry Ostrager is a hack judge from a corrupt hack state. He orders $500,000 a day in fines as if he were a king? This hack judge is going to be answering questions under oath soon enough. A correction is coming.
Yes, it’s some other Chinese who found a judge in NY willing to hear their case against him regarding disputes that occurred in China, possibly because of Guo’s ties to high profile Republicans and his committed anti-CCP stance.
“New York is a wholly inconvenient forum for resolving this dispute between an investment fund headquartered in Hong Kong and a citizen of the People’s Republic of China over contracts signed in Hong Kong, governed by Hong Kong law, and relating to a real estate development in Beijing,” Guo said in a legal filing.
If he’s Banning’s Sugar Daddy, that would make Soros the Democrat’s pimp.
“I am sure this is a political hit “
The MUST target Bannon in any way they can — even in this roundabout way. He is too effective. I hate to think what else might be in the pipeline.
He is fighting CCP . Not surprised assistant commies in this country are going after him…. https://gettr.com/post/pto9bj0bec
Good find.
So Guo had a huge win in a British court yesterday, triggering the NY court to hit him with an absurd fine and ruling today after months of nothing.
The obvious spite displayed proves this is a political prosecution.
“Noooobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!” This has “CCP-pulling-strings-on-elite-captured-corrupt-US-judge written all over it. I wonder what the judge’s “Spectre” number is.
So that’s the guy shown during war room commercial breaks
“I have no idea what this is all about. Is this American judge trying to enforce some ChiCom court’s orders?”
Nope. Suit filed in New York by a company with offices in New York on a person residing in New York.
Sure it does, this guy’s fourth cousin removed on his wife’s side once ran into a traffic issue caused by President Trump’s motorcade..... that works for the Main Stream Press.
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