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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, March 15, 2023 Ho Wan Kwok, A/K/A “Miles Guo,” Arrested For Orchestrating Over $1 Billion Dollar Fraud Conspiracy Over $630 Million of Alleged Fraud Proceeds Seized by U.S. Government Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the unsealing of a twelve-count Indictment charging HO WAN KWOK, a/k/a “Miles Guo,” a/k/a “Miles Kwok,” a/k/a “Guo Wengui,” a/k/a “Brother Seven,” a/k/a “The Principal,” and KIN MING JE, a/k/a “William Je,”...

FBI agents descended on Cook County government offices this morning, serving a search warrant in an investigation that apparently centers on county hiring practices. FBI agents could be seen carrying boxes of documents out of the Cook County Human Resources Department at 118 N. Clark St., as county human resources director Mark Kilgallon and county general counsel Laura Lechowicz Felicione looked on. “We are fully cooperating” with the investigation, Felicione said. While the seizure of documents proceeded downtown, federal agents served the search warrant at other county offices, too — including Provident Hospital, Cermak Hospital and the forest preserve district....