{"id":"court_ctb_3803_1","court":"CTB","case_no":"22-50073","doc_number":3803,"sub_number":1,"doc_type":"ORDER","filed_date":"2024-11-08","title":"EXHIBIT 1 UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT BRIDGEPORT DIVISION In Re \\* Case No. 22-50073 (JAM) \\*","summary_zh":"庭审记录附件（Exhibit 1） —— Ho Wan Kwok 破产案（郭文贵 / Guo Wengui / Miles Guo），CTB 22-50073 ECF #3803-1（2024-11-08立案）。本文件为2024年2月27日状态会议的庭审记录节录，第11章受托人律师汇报了诉状保密涂黑处理的协商进展、继续推进破产法第2004条调查、暂不重开债权申报截止日（bar date），以及变卖仓库内艺术品等资产以补充破产财产的计划。","summary_en":"Transcript Exhibit (Exhibit 1) — In re Ho Wan Kwok (Miles Guo / Guo Wengui), CTB 22-50073 ECF #3803-1 (filed 2024-11-08). This document is an excerpt of the transcript from the February 27, 2024 status conference before Judge Julie A. Manning. Chapter 11 Trustee's counsel addressed resolving confidentiality redactions in adversary complaints, continuing Rule 2004 investigations, maintaining the existing claims bar date without reopening it, and liquidating storage unit assets including artwork to generate cash for the bankruptcy estate.","body_en":"## **EXHIBIT 1**\n\n UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT BRIDGEPORT DIVISION In Re \\* Case No. 22-50073 (JAM) \\* HO WAN KWOK and GENEVER \\* Bridgeport, Connecticut HOLDINGS CORPORATION, \\* February 27, 2024 \\* Debtors. \\* \\* \\* \\* \\* \\* \\* \\* \\* \\* \\* \\* \\* \\* \\* \\* \\* \\* TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE HONORABLE JULIE A. MANNING UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY JUDGE #2941 ORDER GRANTING REQUEST FOR STATUS CONFERENCE APPEARANCES: For the Chapter 11 Trustee: NICHOLAS A. BASSETT, ESQ. Paul Hastings LLP 200 Park Avenue New York, NY 10166 PATRICK R. LINSEY, ESQ. Neubert Pepe and Monteith 195 Church Street,13th Floor New Haven, CT 06510 Chapter 11 Trustee: LUC A. DESPINS, ESQ. Paul Hastings LLP 200 Park Avenue New York, NY 10166 For the U.S. Trustee: HOLLEY L. CLAIBORN, ESQ. Office of the United States Trustee The Giaimo Federal Building 150 Court Street, Room 302 New Haven, CT 06510 Proceedings recorded by electronic sound recording, transcript produced by transcription service. **Fiore Reporting and Transcription Service, Inc.**\n\n **Shelton, CT 06484 (203)732-6461**\n\nCase 22-50073 Doc 3803-1 Filed 11/08/24 Entered 11/08/24 16:44:45 Page 3 of 5\n\n Ho Wan Kwok - February 27, 2024 21 1 And we understand why they're doing that, but we 2 need to break this logjam. Because I can tell you, Your 3 Honor, that there are hours spent redacting these various 4 complaints and all that just to make sure we're not -- 5 nobody can cry foul that we released, unintentionally, 6 confidential information. 7 So that is to be continued. 8 We are soliciting the consent of the various 9 parties to try to break this confidential logjam. We hope 10 that they will consent and we're able to release more of the 11 complaint or at least maybe entire complaints so that 12 everyone can see them. 13 And if not, if it's not consensual, we intend to 14 file a motion with Your Honor to have a better system than 15 the system we have now, because I -- you know, this is not 16 an operating business that has all sorts of confidential 17 issues. Frankly, there's nothing, you know, practically 18 nothing, should be confidential and, therefore, we believe 19 that we need to resolve that issue. 20 The second point I want to mention is that we're 21 going to continue the Rule 2004 investigation. I would say 22 not at the same pace that it took place in the fall of 2023, 23 but there are still some issues that need to be pursued 24 there. 25 The last point on this is the bar date. A lot of\n\nFiore Reporting and Transcription Service, Inc.\n\nCase 22-50073 Doc 3803-1 Filed 11/08/24 Entered 11/08/24 16:44:45 Page 4 of 5\n\n Ho Wan Kwok - February 27, 2024 22 1 people have asked me about the bar date. 2 And I want to tell you our view at this point is 3 that it does not make sense to amend or to open, reopen the 4 bar date at this time. 5 As you may recall, the bar date was February 17th, 6 2023. That was a while before the debtor's arrest on March 7 15th, 2023. So a number of transaction parties that have 8 transactions with the debtors were not aware of the bar date 9 or were not sensitized to it. Now they are. 10 So you might say, well, why don't we reopen the 11 bar date for those people only just know? In theory that 12 might make sense except that what I see here I think is 13 likely is that there will be other events. I'll give you an 14 example. 15 Like the Mahwah Mansion. You know, again, that's 16 an example that was given before about maybe amending the 17 bar date to allow people to file claims arising out of the 18 Mahwah Mansion because they did not know about it. That's 19 one example. But there may be other Mahwah Mansions. And, 20 therefore, we would be wasteful in my opinion to amend the 21 bar date today until we see the dust settle on a number of 22 issues. Because what may happen is we may have to reopen it 23 later and which would be really not cost-effective and could 24 be wasteful. 25 I wanted to mention, Your Honor, that's not on the\n\nFiore Reporting and Transcription Service, Inc.\n\nCase 22-50073 Doc 3803-1 Filed 11/08/24 Entered 11/08/24 16:44:45 Page 5 of 5\n\n|    | Ho Wan Kwok - February 27, 2024<br>23                        |\n|----|--------------------------------------------------------------|\n| 1  | PowerPoint, that we filed a motion recently regarding the    |\n| 2  | contents of storage units that we have inventoried and that  |\n| 3  | we believe are owned by either Mr. Kwok or by Golden Spring, |\n| 4  | that is -- that was filed last week I believe.               |\n| 5  | And obviously we want to proceed with that because           |\n| 6  | the owner of the storage unit is saying, okay -- will be     |\n| 7  | saying I'm going to sell this stuff.<br>And I told him you   |\n| 8  | cannot do that.<br>Automatic stay, et cetera.                |\n| 9  | But, you know, there is a point where these people           |\n| 10 | need to be taken care of.<br>And we need to sell the artwork |\n| 11 | and everything that's in there as soon as possible to        |\n| 12 | generate cash for the estate.                                |\n| 13 | So, Your Honor, that is in sum what I wanted to              |\n| 14 | cover.                                                       |\n| 15 | But I would ask Mr. Bassett, if he can, to put up            |\n| 16 | another chart or a one-page, yes, that's one page of a       |\n| 17 | chart, Your Honor, that we intend to file with the Court     |\n| 18 | soon that gives you and all parties in interest a complete   |\n| 19 | list of -- push up the first page up a little -- one out of  |\n| 20 | eight of all the defendants, and what types of claims, and   |\n| 21 | for what amounts are pending against these defendants.       |\n| 22 | So there are basically two types of claims.                  |\n| 23 | They're pre-petition transfers and post-petition transfers.  |\n| 24 | And you can see in there a number of the defendants.         |\n| 25 | And that chart, again, I think would be helpful              |\n|    |                                                              |\n\nFiore Reporting and Transcription Service, Inc.","body_zh":"证据 1\n\n美国康涅狄格区破产法院布里奇波特分院\n关于\nHO WAN KWOK（郭文贵）以及 GENEVER HOLDINGS CORPORATION（源泉控股公司），\n债务人。\n案号：22-50073 (JAM)\n康涅狄格州布里奇波特\n2024年2月27日\n\n诉讼程序记录\n主审法官：JULIE A. MANNING（朱莉·A·曼宁）美国破产法官\n第2941号裁定：批准举行案件进展会议的请求\n\n出庭人员：\n代表第11章破产受托人：\nNICHOLAS A. BASSETT（尼古拉斯·A·巴塞特）律师\nPaul Hastings LLP（普衡律师事务所）\n200 Park Avenue\nNew York, NY 10166\n\nPATRICK R. LINSEY（帕特里克·R·林赛）律师\nNeubert Pepe and Monteith\n195 Church Street, 13th Floor\nNew Haven, CT 06510\n\n第11章破产受托人：\nLUC A. DESPINS（吕克·A·德斯平斯）律师\nPaul Hastings LLP（普衡律师事务所）\n200 Park Avenue\nNew York, NY 10166\n\n代表美国受托人：\nHOLLEY L. CLAIBORN（霍莉·L·克莱伯恩）律师\nOffice of the United States Trustee（美国受托人办公室）\nThe Giaimo Federal Building\n150 Court Street, Room 302\nNew Haven, CT 06510\n\n诉讼程序由电子声音录音记录，记录件由速记转录服务机构制作。\nFiore Reporting and Transcription Service, Inc.\n\nShelton, CT 06484 (203)732-6461\n\nCase 22-50073 Doc 3803-1 Filed 11/08/24 Entered 11/08/24 16:44:45 Page 3 of 5\n\nHo Wan Kwok - 2024年2月27日 第21页\n1 我们理解他们为何这么做，但我们\n2 需要打破这种僵局。因为法官阁下，我可以告诉您，\n3 为了对这些各类起诉状进行涂黑遮蔽，花费了数小时的时间，\n4 所有这些只是为了确保我们没有——\n5 没有人可以指责我们无意中泄露了\n6 保密信息。\n7 因此这一工作仍在继续。\n8 我们正在征求各方当事人的同意，\n9 以试图打破这种保密僵局。我们希望\n10 他们能同意，这样我们便能够公开更多起诉状\n11 的内容，或者至少可能是整份起诉状，以便\n12 所有人都能看到。\n13 如果不同意，如果未能达成一致，我们打算\n14 向法官阁下提交一项动议，以建立一个比我们现在\n15 更好的机制，因为我——您知道，这并不是一个\n16 涉及各种保密问题的运营中的企业。\n17 坦率地说，您知道，几乎没有任何东西\n18 应当保密，因此，我们认为\n19 我们需要解决这个问题。\n20 我想提到的第二点是，我们将\n21 继续进行第2004条规则下的调查。我想说，\n22 虽然不会以2023年秋季那样的节奏进行，\n23 但仍有一些问题需要\n24 在该调查中继续跟进。\n25 关于这一点的最后一点是债权申报截止日。许多\n\nFiore Reporting and Transcription Service, Inc.\n\nCase 22-50073 Doc 3803-1 Filed 11/08/24 Entered 11/08/24 16:44:45 Page 4 of 5\n\nHo Wan Kwok - 2024年2月27日 第22页\n1 人向我询问过债权申报截止日的事。\n2 我想向您说明我们目前的看法，那就是\n3 目前修改或开放、重新开放债权申报截止日\n4 是没有意义的。\n5 您可能还记得，债权申报截止日是2023年2月17日。\n6 那是在2023年3月15日债务人被捕之前的一段时间。\n7 因此，许多与债务人有交易往来的\n8 交易相对方当时并不知道债权申报截止日，\n9 或者对它并不敏感。现在他们知道了。\n10 所以您可能会说，那为什么我们不只为那些刚刚知情的人\n11 重新开放债权申报截止日呢？理论上\n12 这或许说得通，但我在这里看到且认为\n13 很可能还会发生其他事件。我给您举个例子。\n14 比如马赫瓦大宅（Mahwah Mansion）。您知道，这也是\n15 之前举过的一个例子，关于是否可能修改\n16 债权申报截止日，允许人们针对马赫瓦大宅提出债权申报，\n17 因为他们之前并不知情。这是一个例子。\n18 但可能还会有其他类似马赫瓦大宅的情况。因此，\n19 在我看来，在诸多问题的尘埃落定之前，\n20 我们今天修改债权申报截止日将是一种浪费。\n21 因为可能发生的情况是，我们日后可能不得不再次重新开放，\n22 那样做实在不划算，而且可能\n23 造成浪费。\n24 法官阁下，我想提一下不在演示文稿上的事情，\n\nFiore Reporting and Transcription Service, Inc.\n\nCase 22-50073 Doc 3803-1 Filed 11/08/24 Entered 11/08/24 16:44:45 Page 5 of 5\n\nHo Wan Kwok - 2024年2月27日\n1 我们最近就我们已清点的仓储单元内的物品\n2 提交了一项动议，\n3 我们认为这些物品要么归郭先生所有，要么归 Golden Spring（金泉公司）所有，\n4 该动议——据我所知是上周提交的。\n5 显然我们希望推进此事，因为\n6 仓储单元的房东说，好吧——房东会说我要把这些东西卖掉。\n7 我告诉他你不能那样做。\n8 因为有自动中止（Automatic stay）等等。\n9 但是，您知道，在某种程度上这些人\n10 的问题需要得到处理。我们需要尽快出售艺术品\n11 和里面的所有物品，\n12 以便为破产财产变现。\n13 因此，法官阁下，总的来说这就是我想报告的内容。\n14\n15 但我想请巴塞特先生（如果可以的话）调出\n16 另一份图表或单页文件，是的，法官阁下，那是一页\n17 图表，我们打算近期向法院提交，\n18 它为您和所有利害关系人提供了一份完整的清单——\n19 把第一页稍微往上推一点——八页中的第一页，\n20 列出了所有被告、索赔类型，\n21 以及针对这些被告待决的索赔金额。\n22 因此基本上有两类索赔。\n23 即申请破产前的财产转让和申请破产后的财产转让。\n24 您可以在其中看到许多被告。\n25 我认为那份图表同样会有所帮助\n\nFiore Reporting and Transcription Service, Inc.","key_entities":["Kwok","Ho Wan Kwok","Paul Hastings","Despins"],"ecf_references":[],"word_count":1119,"status":"published","published_at":"2024-11-08 00:00:00","created_at":"2024-11-08","updated_at":"2026-08-23 12:38:54"}