| Guo Wengui With Bannon Cited
Sued Strategic Vision Now Trial Day 1 Wallop
and Waller
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
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April 19 – Guo Wengui's
Eastern Profit Corporation
sued Strategic Vision US LLC,
in a sealed
complaint.
On October
5, 2020 U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Lewis J. Liman
held a proceeding. Inner City
Press live tweeted it, here
and below.
On March 31
after Steve Bannon got a
pardon from then-President
Trump, Judge Liman held
another conference, and Inner
City Press again covered it.
As the
parties prepared to go to
(bench) trial, Eastern
Profit's lawyer asked to go
into a sealed courtroom. Judge
Liman asked for her proffer
and she said that a certain
witness - whom she left
unnamed - may well invoke the
Fifth Amendment right to not
incriminate oneself, that
there are criminal issues in
the air.
Inner City Press
has now published the
complaint on Patreon here;
the talk of the centrality of
the witness and the looming
but not current criminal
issues point in one direction.
On April 19, the bench trial
began and Inner City Press was there,
alone in the courtroom gallery,
while Strategic's Ms.
French Wallop was cross examined about, among
other things, trying to charge Eastern for
Hermes gifts.
The day ened
with J. Michael
Waller, who was
named on sign board
carried by dogged
demonstrators
on Worth
Street, where
they'd been when
Bannon was arraigned.
Inner City
Press live
tweeted, here:
Lawyer
for Eastern
Profit
Corporation
Limited says
Mr. Guo is a
"real
dissident,"
and that it
will be proved
at this trial.
Accuses
Strategic
Vision US LLC
of falsely
claiming Guo
*supports* Xi.
Eastern
Profit
Corporation
Limited wants
a judgment of
$1 million and
that
Strategic's
claims be
thrown out.
Now
Strategic's
opening
statement:
"Eastern is
not a real
business... It
is a cut-out
for Guo and
for whoever
else funds his
US
operations."
Strategic
is previewing
not today's
but tomorrow's
testimony by
Yvette Wong -
relations of
trying for
"regime change
on the Chinese
mainland" on
Hong
Kong.
Strategic's
opening
statement is
still going,
ranging from
"passport
fraud of a
NATO ally" and
a Panamanian
bank account.
"We'll learn
about the
follow up
Waller did...
flying back
and forth to
Europe getting
thumb drives.
They had
located the
servers of
CITIC."
Strategic's
lawyer: Guo's
entities were
headquartered
in Hong Kong,
in the Bank of
China building
which the CCP
uses for
espionage
beyond the
mainland - a
strange choice
for a supposed
dissident.
Judge
Liman says,
During the
break the
parties should
work with the
court
reporter, they
didn't get
down many of
these Chinese
names.
First
witness,
founder of
Strategic
Vision French
Wallop,
says it does
not engage in
surveillance,
calls it due
diligence.
Then admits it
contracts with
others to do
surveillance.
The founder
has no
educational
credentials
about
international
affairs and
commercial due
diligence
Strategic's
founder is
asked about
three lawsuits
against it for
non payment of
legal
fees.
Judge Liman
says, Tread
cautiously on
attorney work
product.
Judge
Liman: Prior
to the second
amended
complaint, did
Strategic
Vision every
accuse Mr. Guo
of being a
double agent?
Answer: No.
Lawyer
for Eastern:
We believe
that Strategy
Vision's legal
fees are being
paid by Bruno
Wu - this goes
to the heart
of the fraud
claim.
Here in
courtroom
gallery for
Guo / Eastern
(Bannon)
trial, Inner
City Press is
the only
person. Cross
exam of
Strategic's
founder,
expensed
Hermes, Cafe
Milano, "a
gift for
Yvette"
Defense: We're
no longer
seeking
reimbursement
for this
The day ended with
J. Michael
Waller
testifying
about being in
Russia when
the Soviet Union
fell. The
intrigue of
if Guo opposes
or secretly
supports Xi
remained in
the air - with
Guo to testify.
Also on
the witness
list: Yvette Wang,
Han Chunguang,
and Sasha
Gong.
List and
more on
Patreon
here.
Watch
this site.
Pre-trial on April 1 the filing
of this: "Dear Judge Liman: Bob Fu
should not be stricken from Strategic’s
trial witness list. Dr. Fu was disclosed
by name in Strategic’s findings of fact
submitted with the original (proposed)
Pretrial Order on October 30,
2020.1 Dr. Fu was not officially
listed as a trial witness until January
29, 2021, for several compelling
reasons. First, Strategic needed to
confirm his willingness to travel to New
York in the circumstances of this
pandemic to testify about events that
had just occurred in September and
October 2020. Second, Strategic was
hopeful that its proposed DX-98, which
evidenced Guo’s attacks on Dr. Fu using
Guo’s “GNews” outlet, would be admitted,
but this Court ruled newspaper articles
inadmissible in late December 2020, ECF
310, and Eastern has objected to that
particular exhibit. Strategic’s handling
of this witness has been justified and
any result of the delay harmless for
Eastern. Eastern has had almost three
months to plan for Dr. Fu’s testimony,
and no harm will come from allowing him
to testify for 30 minutes about how
Guo’s program of attacks on key Chinese
dissidents in the U.S. finally came to
Dr. Fu’s front door. To grant Eastern’s
request to strike Dr. Fu will greatly
prejudice Strategic Vision because Dr.
Fu holds critical evidence supporting
Strategic’s fraud claim that Guo Wengui
misrepresented himself as a dissident of
China intent on breaking the CCP’s
control over that country. The
representation induced Strategic and its
China Hawk founder to sign a contract to
provide services to Guo and Eastern (the
company his daughter directs), services
that Strategic never would have provided
if Strategic had known that Guo is not a
true dissident and holds sympathy for
the CCP and its leadership. Dr. Fu’s
testimony helps establish that Guo is
not who he represented himself to be. 1.
Strategic’s Fraud Claim Requires Proof
that Eastern Made a Misrepresentation.
Strategic intends to prove that the
Research Agreement was procured by
fraud. From the time French Wallop was
first introduced to Guo by Bill Gertz
and Lianchao Han through 1 See Ex. Oct.
30, 2020 communication from Eastern to
the Court, copying Strategic, attachment
“PLDG SV_10-30-2020 FOF and COL,” at ¶¶
125-26 (“More recently, he [Guo] has
launched a new round of attacks,
including against Bob Fu. Fu is the head
of a Christian organization called
ChinaAid based in Mildand, Texas.
ChinaAid supports Christians in China,
opposes the CCP, and has now become a
target of Guo. Guo supported groups of
Chinese-speakers who traveled to Midland
to picket Fu’s home in October,
2020...”). Case 1:18-cv-02185-LJL
Document 325 Filed 04/01/21 Page 1 of 4
2 negotiations and performance of the
contract, Guo represented that he was a
longtime opponent of the CCP, desired to
undermine, sow disruption, and bring
about the regime’s downfall, and would
accomplish this through publicizing
research about the regime’s corruption.
The linchpin to his plan was the work by
Strategic.... Strategic will
offer the translation of a recording
from March 2017 wherein Guo expresses
contempt for U.S. dissidents who
criticize the CCP, and says, “The
operation is on now. I have absolute
faith in General Secretary Xi.” Bob Fu’s
experience, as shown below, is a
concrete example of Guo fulfilling his
plan in early 2017 to support the CCP
and Chinese leadership. Dr. Fu will not
be asked to opine whether Guo is a
dissident-hunter, but this Court could
reach that conclusion from Dr. Fu’s
testimony that he did nothing to provoke
Guo’s social media war against Dr. Fu in
fall 2020: Dr. Fu “was [in] total shock
when [Guo] mobilized his followers to
harass and intimidate us just at our
door… I have not done anything dealing
with him, any public or private dispute
or feud with him before he attacked me,
so the only thing I could think of is
that somebody from Beijing must have
sent him an order to take us down.” ...
Finally, Strategic will prove
that Guo has attacked true Chinese
dissidents like Sasha Gong and now Bob
Fu. Attacking Chinese dissidents is
consistent with Guo’s 2017 plan to
support President Xi and the CCP and the
actions of someone who is not himself a
Chinese dissident." Full letter
on Patreon here.
On April 5, Judge Liman
denied the motion. Fu will not
testify: "permitting Fu to testify
will be unfairly prejudicial to
Eastern. Fu has neither produced
documents in this litigation nor been
deposed and thus Eastern has no way to
fairly and effectively cross-examine
him, including on his claim that he is
a Chinese dissident. To require
Eastern to subpoena him now for
documents and to take a pretrial
deposition-with trial 19 days away
from the date of Strategic's request
and with trial having been adjourned
ten times since the first amendment of
the case management plan in August
2018, see Dkt. Nos. 42, 60, 76, 86,
113, 259, 287, 296, 308, 318,
321-would be unfair both in terms of
cost and in delay to Eastern.
Strategic's motion to supplement Fu as
a witness is therefore DENIED."
Inner City
Press will stay on the case.
From October 5:
Now @SDNYLIVE Judge
Liman is denying summary
judgment in case of Guo Wengui
and Strategic Vision, can't
agree if a person wants to
overthrow Chinese Communist
Party can't be proven or not.
Inner City Press, blocked by
CCP's Zhang Jun, will live
tweet
The case was
filed under seal in SDNY in
March 2018. Much later it was
unsealed. A jury trial was set
for Nov 2, 2020 - but now
Strategic is point to Gov.
Cuomo's quarantine orders.
Main witness French Wallop
live in Virginia...
From one of the
motions for summary judgment,
Guo 1 Tr., Ex. AA: "Q: What
was it about the 15 names that
led you to believe that
Strategic's research would be
useful to you in your goal of
eliminating the Chinese
Communist Party? Grendi:
Object to
form
Judge Liman: I'd
like to keep the trial date,
& do it as a bench trial.
Happy to do it partly in the
courtroom.
Eastern's lawyer
Joanna J. Cline of Troutman
Pepper: Zoom would be fine.
Strategic's lawyer Ed Greim:
Our issue is we have to
isolate in NY for 14
days
Strategic's
Greim: It would be difficult
to cross examine these
witnesses including Mr. Guo by
Zoom and with an interpreter.
Judge Liman: Mr. Greim, your
arguments are ones that might
make it difficult for me to
give Eastern a trial any time
soon
The case,
in which Guo is also known as
Miles Kwok and in which now
SDNY criminal subject Stephen
K. Bannon is also listed, is
Eastern Profit Corporation
Limited v. Strategic Vision US
LLC, 18-cv-2185 (Liman)
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