{"id":"court_sdny_227_0","court":"SDNY","case_no":"23-cr-00118","doc_number":227,"sub_number":0,"doc_type":"ORDER","filed_date":null,"title":" 7 Times Square, New York, NY 10036-6569 Tel: 212-421-4100 Fax: 212-326-0806","summary_zh":"被告动议书 —— 美国诉 Ho Wan Kwok（郭文贵 / Guo Wengui / Miles Guo）案，SDNY 1:23-cr-00118 ECF #227（2024年1月12日提交）。被告律师代理人 Kamaraju 代表被告 Ho Wan Kwok 及 Yanping Wang 呈请，就 2024年1月4日政府超补起诉书提出驳回动议，并就简易动议日程和审理日期调整提出建议。","summary_en":"Motion by Defense Counsel – United States v. Ho Wan Kwok (Guo Wengui / Miles Guo), SDNY 1:23-cr-00118, ECF #227 (filed January 12, 2024). Defense counsel Kamaraju, representing defendants Ho Wan Kwok and Yanping Wang, files notice of intent to move to dismiss the government's superseding indictment filed January 4, 2024, and proposes briefing schedule and trial date adjustments.","body_en":"\n\n7 Times Square, New York, NY 10036-6569 Tel: 212-421-4100 Fax: 212-326-0806\n\nNew York | Los Angeles | Miami\n\npryorcashman.com\n\n#### **Sidhardha Kamaraju**\n\nDirect Tel: 212-326-0895 Direct Fax: 212-326-0806 skamaraju@pryorcashman.com\n\nJanuary 12, 2024\n\n# **SUBMITTED VIA ECF**\n\nHon. Analisa Torres United States District Judge Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse 500 Pearl Street New York, NY 10007\n\n### **Re:** *United States v. Kwok et al.***, Case No. 1:23-cr-00118 (AT)**\n\nDear Judge Torres:\n\nAs directed by this Court's January 5, 2024 Order (ECF No. 221) we write to advise the Court that Mr. Kwok intends to move to dismiss the superseding indictment filed by the government on January 4, 2024 (*see* ECF No. 215) (the \"Superseding Indictment\"). Below, the defendants set forth their position on a schedule for that motion and on the trial date.\n\n### **Defendant Ho Wan Kwok's Position**\n\nThree months before the current trial date, the government has turned a \"fraud\"[1](#page-0-0) case into a purported racketeering one. Moreover, with respect to the pre-existing charges, the Superseding Indictment adds new substantive allegations. (*See*, *e.g.*, Superseding Ind. ¶¶ 17(c) (adding allegations concerning a purported statement by Mr. Kwok about the Farm Loans); 19(e) (adding allegations that HCN and HDO were not \"real cryptocurrencies\" because they purportedly did not operate on a \"publicly accessible blockchain\").) Thus, to adequately address the government's reformulation of the charges, Mr. Kwok proposes the following briefing schedule on his motion to dismiss the Superseding Indictment:\n\nFebruary 7, 2024: Mr. Kwok's motion to dismiss the Superseding Indictment due February 21, 2024: Government opposition to Mr. Kwok's motion to dismiss due\n\n[1](#page-0-1) Indeed, just days before seeking and obtaining a racketeering indictment, the government began its opposition to Mr. Kwok's motion to compel by stating \"[t]his is a fraud case.\" ECF No. 205 at 3.\n\n\n\nHon. Analisa Torres January 12, 2024 Page 2\n\nMarch 6, 2024: Mr. Kwok's reply on motion to dismiss due\n\nTrial is scheduled for April 8, 2024. While the government has suggested an adjournment of the trial date to May 20, 2024, its proposal is based on a prejudicial and compressed briefing schedule. To allow Mr. Kwok sufficient time to brief his motion to dismiss and for the Court to consider it, Mr. Kwok respectfully requests a trial date of June 3, 2024 (subject to the Court's availability). The requested adjournment, which is less than 60 days from the currently scheduled trial date and includes a period for briefing on Mr. Kwok's new motion to dismiss, is a reasonable accommodation that will permit Mr. Kwok to address the government's late-filed Superseding Indictment while at the same time ensuring this case proceeds to trial as quickly as possible, particularly in light of Mr. Kwok's continued detention at the MDC since March 15, 2023.\n\n# **Defendant Yanping Wang's Position**\n\nThe Superseding Indictment puts the defense between a rock and a hard place in terms of timing. First, without question, the case should proceed expeditiously towards trial. This investigation has been going on for at least three years, the case was charged ten months ago, and the government sought—and obtained—Ms. Wang's detention pending trial at the MDC, a facility Judge Furman recently described as \"dreadful in many respects,\" characterized by near constant lockdowns, \"slow in providing necessary medical and mental health\" care, and riddled with poor physical conditions[.](#page-1-0)2 Ms. Wang is presumed innocent and a lengthy delay of her trial is improper.\n\nOn the other hand, the government's Superseding Indictment now charges Ms. Wang in 11 of 13 counts (as opposed four counts in the prior indictment). The defense should be allowed adequate time to move to dismiss all or part of the Superseding Indictment, and the Court should be given adequate time to rule on that motion.\n\nFinally, as to Ms. Wang, she has moved for severance, reserves all rights in that regard, and nothing herein should be considered a waiver of those arguments.\n\nWith all that in mind, we agree with the motion to dismiss schedule as proposed by counsel for Mr. Kwok and may join that motion in whole or in part. In addition, we would consent to a trial starting between May 20 and June 3, but would object to any trial date later than June 3.\n\n[2](#page-1-1) Opinion, *United States v. Chavez*, 22 Cr. 303 (JMF) (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 4, 2024), ECF No. 31 at 9.\n\n\n\nHon. Analisa Torres January 12, 2024 Page 3\n\n\\* \\* \\*\n\nWe thank the Court for its attention to these matters and remain available should the Court require further information.\n\nRespectfully submitted,\n\n## Slo^u\n\nS i l l e l l e K .\n\nSidhardha Kamaraju","body_zh":"7 Times Square, New York, NY 10036-6569 电话: 212-421-4100 传真: 212-326-0806\n\nNew York | Los Angeles | Miami\n\npryorcashman.com\n\nSidhardha Kamaraju\n\n直拨电话: 212-326-0895 直拨传真: 212-326-0806 skamaraju@pryorcashman.com\n\n2024年1月12日\n\n通过 ECF 提交\n\n尊敬的 Analisa Torres（阿娜丽莎·托雷斯） 美国联邦地区法官 Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse（丹尼尔·帕特里克·莫伊尼汉美国法院大楼） 500 Pearl Street New York, NY 10007\n\n关于: United States v. Kwok et al.，案号 1:23-cr-00118 (AT)\n\n尊敬的托雷斯法官：\n\n根据本法院2024年1月5日的命令（ECF No. 221）的要求，我们致信告知法院，Kwok（郭）先生拟针对政府于2024年1月4日提交的替代起诉书（参见 ECF No. 215）（下称「替代起诉书」）提出撤销动议。下文阐述被告就该动议的时间表及审判日期的立场。\n\n被告 Ho Wan Kwok（郭文贵）的立场\n\n在距当前确定的审判日期仅剩三个月之际，政府将一起「欺诈」[1]案件变成了所谓的敲诈勒索案件。此外，针对先前已存在的指控，替代起诉书增加了新的实体性指控。（例如，参见替代起诉书第 17(c) 段（增加关于郭先生涉嫌发表有关农场贷款声明的指控）；第 19(e) 段（增加关于喜币（HCN）和喜美元（HDO）并非「真正加密货币」的指控，理由是其据称并未在「公开可访问的区块链」上运行）。）因此，为了充分应对政府对指控的重新构架，郭先生提议关于其撤销替代起诉书动议的以下简报日程安排：\n\n2024年2月7日：郭先生提交撤销替代起诉书动议的截止日期 2024年2月21日：政府对郭先生撤销动议提交反对意见的截止日期\n\n[1] 事实上，就在寻求并获得敲诈勒索起诉书的几天前，政府在其对郭先生强制作证动议的反对意见中开头就写道「本案是一起欺诈案」。ECF No. 205 第 3 页。\n\n尊敬的 Analisa Torres 法官 2024年1月12日 第 2 页\n\n2024年3月6日：郭先生对撤销动议提交答辩状的截止日期\n\n审判原定于2024年4月8日进行。虽然政府提议将审判日期推迟至2024年5月20日，但其提议是基于一个具有偏见性且被极度压缩的简报日程安排。为了使郭先生有足够的时间就其撤销动议进行书面陈词，并使法院有足够时间审议该动议，郭先生谨请求将审判日期定为2024年6月3日（以法院的时间安排为准）。所请求的延期与当前预定的审判日期相比相差不到60天，并且包含郭先生新的撤销动议的简报阶段，这是一项合理的调整，既能使郭先生应对政府延迟提交的替代起诉书，又能确保本案尽快进入审判程序，特别是考虑到郭先生自2023年3月15日以来一直被拘留在 MDC（大都会拘留中心）。\n\n被告 Yanping Wang（王雁平）的立场\n\n替代起诉书在时间安排上使辩方陷入两难困境。首先，毫无疑问，本案应当迅速推进至审判阶段。这项调查已经持续了至少三年，案件早在十个月前就已提出指控，且政府曾寻求并获得了在审前将王女士羁押于 MDC，Furman（弗曼）法官最近将该设施描述为「在诸多方面极其恶劣」，其特点是几乎处于持续封锁状态，「在提供必要的医疗和心理健康护理方面反应迟缓」，且充斥着恶劣的物理环境。[2] 王女士被推定无罪，其审判的长期拖延是不恰当的。\n\n另一方面，政府的替代起诉书目前在13项罪名项中的11项中指控了王女士（而之前的起诉书中仅为4项罪名项）。应当给予辩方充分的时间就替代起诉书的全部或部分提出撤销动议，并且应当给予法院充足的时间对该动议作出裁决。\n\n最后，就王女士而言，她已提出分案审理动议，并保留这方面的所有权利，此处的任何内容均不得视为放弃这些论点。\n\n基于以上所有考虑，我们同意郭先生律师提出的撤销动议时间表，并可能会全部或部分加入该动议。此外，我们同意在5月20日至6月3日之间开庭审理，但反对晚于6月3日的任何审判日期。\n\n[2] 裁决书，United States v. Chavez，案号 22 Cr. 303 (JMF)（Southern District of New York（纽约南区），2024年1月4日），ECF No. 31 第 9 页。\n\n尊敬的 Analisa Torres 法官 2024年1月12日 第 3 页\n\n* * *\n\n我们感谢法院对此事的关注，若法院需要进一步信息，我们将随时提供。\n\n谨此提交，\n\nSidhardha Kamaraju\n（签名）","key_entities":["Kwok","Torres","Analisa Torres","Kamaraju","Je","Ho Wan Kwok","Yanping Wang","Farm Loan"],"ecf_references":[{"doc_number":31,"court":"SDNY"},{"doc_number":205,"court":"SDNY"},{"doc_number":215,"court":"SDNY"},{"doc_number":221,"court":"SDNY"}],"word_count":775,"status":"published","published_at":null,"created_at":null,"updated_at":"2026-08-23 07:23:21"}