{"id":"court_sdny_228_0","court":"SDNY","case_no":"23-cr-00118","doc_number":228,"sub_number":0,"doc_type":"ORDER","filed_date":"2024-01-12","title":"![](_page_0_Picture_2.jpeg) U.S. Department of Justice","summary_zh":"法庭命令 —— 美国诉Ho Wan Kwok（郭文贵 / Guo Wengui / Miles Guo）案，SDNY 1:23-cr-00118 ECF #228（2024年1月12日立案）。美国检察机关就被告提出的审判延期动议向法庭提交回应，对适度延期不持异议但反对过度延期；检察机关建议新的诉讼日程以加快审理进程，包括动议驳回截止日期、政府反对意见截止日期、被告回复截止日期，以及试定在2024年5月20日开始审判。","summary_en":"Court Order —— United States v. Ho Wan Kwok (Guo Wengui / Miles Guo), SDNY 1:23-cr-00118 ECF #228 (January 12, 2024). The government responds to the court's order concerning rescheduling of briefing deadlines following a superseding indictment; the government does not object to modest adjournments but opposes unnecessary prolonged delays and proposes a revised schedule for motions, opposition, reply, and trial commencement in May 2024.","body_en":"![](_page_0_Picture_2.jpeg)\n\n## U.S. Department of Justice\n\nUnited States Attorney Southern District of New York\n\nThe Silvio J. Mollo Building One Saint Andrew's Plaza New York, New York 10007\n\nJanuary 12, 2024\n\nVIA ECF Hon. Analisa Torres Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse 500 Pearl St. New York, NY 10007-1312\n\n## Re: United States v. Kwok, et al., S2 23 Cr. 118 (AT)\n\nDear Judge Torres:\n\nThe Government writes in response to the Court's order concerning the rescheduling of briefing deadlines in light of the January 3, 2024 superseding indictment, and to defendant Kwok's motion to adjourn trial. (Dkts. 221, 227.)\n\nOn January 3, 2024, Government counsel emailed defense counsel a copy of the superseding indictment, S2 23 Cr. 118, which relies principally on the same allegations as the S1 indictment but also charges that the defendants within conspiring to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (\"RICO\") through a pattern of racketeering activity that included the wire fraud, bank fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering conduct charged in the S1 and S2 indictments. Both the S1 and S2 indictments charge the same substantive violations of wire fraud and securities fraud, and both rely upon the same conduct, the same evidence, and the same witnesses.\n\nThe Government does not object to a modest adjournment to the briefing schedule and a commensurate modest adjournment of the trial date, but objects to a schedule that would unnecessarily adjourn trial or could cause trial to extend past August 1, 2024 (which could impact the ability to select a jury). The Government believes that its proposed schedule-which gives the defendants' sophisticated counsel more than four weeks from the return of the S2 indictment to file a motion to dismiss the S2 indictment-is sufficient for the reasons stated herein and submitted under seal for the Court's consideration, and both will avoid any unnecessary or prolonged delays.\n\n![](_page_0_Figure_13.jpeg)\n\nAccordingly, the Government respectfully proposes the following revised schedule (subject to the Court's availability):\n\n| Defendants' Motion to Dismiss:2 | February 2, 2024  |\n|---------------------------------|-------------------|\n| Government's Opposition:        | February 14, 2024 |\n| Defendants' Reply:              | February 21, 2024 |\n| Trial:                          | May 20, 2024      |\n\nIn addition, the Government requests that the Court consider scheduling jury selection the week prior to the trial start date; that is, under the above-proposed schedule, jury selection would begin on May 13, 2024 and conclude whenever a jury is selected that week. The parties would then return on May 20, 2024 and begin trial that morning. The Government respectfully submits that such a procedure would be a more efficient use of the parties' and the Court's resources, because earlier jury selection would give the parties, the Court, and witnesses certainty regarding when trial would begin. 3 This proposal is also particularly appropriate here, where jury selection may take some time.\n\nFinally, the Government understands that both defendants consent to the exclusion of time under the Speedy Trial Act through the date of an adjourned trial, provided that such trial will begin on or before June 3, 2024.\n\nThe Government is available to address any questions the Court may have.\n\nRespectfully submitted,\n\nDAMIAN WILLIAMS United States Attorney\n\nB\n\nRyan B. Finkel Juliana N. Murray Micah F. Fergenson Justin Horton Assistant United States Attorneys (212) 637-6612 / 2314 / 2190 / 2276\n\n2 Motions, other than the motion to dismiss, would remain on the current schedule.\n\n3 Judge Caproni recently employed such a procedure in November 2023 in United States v. Bynum & Davis, S9 21 Cr. 603 (VEC).","body_zh":"U.S. Department of Justice（美国司法部）\n\nUnited States Attorney（联邦检察官）\nSouthern District of New York（纽约南区）\n\nThe Silvio J. Mollo Building\nOne Saint Andrew's Plaza\nNew York, New York 10007\n\n2024年1月12日\n\n通过 ECF\n致：Hon. Analisa Torres（阿娜丽莎·托雷斯法官）\nDaniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse（丹尼尔·帕特里克·莫伊尼汉美国法院大楼）\n500 Pearl St.\nNew York, NY 10007-1312\n\n事由：United States v. Kwok, et al.（美国诉郭等案），S2 23 Cr. 118 (AT)\n\n尊敬的托雷斯法官：\n\n鉴于2024年1月3日的替代起诉书，以及被告 Kwok（郭文贵）关于推迟审判的动议，政府谨就法院关于重新安排简短书面答辩截止期限的命令作出回复。（案卷号 221、227。）\n\n2024年1月3日，政府律师通过电子邮件向辩护律师发送了替代起诉书 S2 23 Cr. 118 的副本，该起诉书主要基于与 S1 起诉书相同的主张，但还指控文中所述被告密谋通过包括 S1 和 S2 起诉书中所指控的电信诈骗、银行诈骗、证券诈骗和洗钱行为在内的一连串敲诈勒索活动，违反 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act（《受敲诈勒索者影响和腐败组织法》，简称“RICO”）。S1 和 S2 起诉书均指控了相同的电信诈骗和证券诈骗实体罪行，且均依赖于相同的行为、相同的证据和相同的证人。\n\n政府不反对对书面答辩时间表进行适度推迟，并对审判日期作出相应的适度推迟，但反对不必要地推迟审判或可能导致审判拖延至2024年8月1日之后（这可能会影响挑选陪审团的能力）的时间表。政府认为，其提议的时间表——即在 S2 起诉书发回后，给予被告经验丰富的律师四星期以上的时间以提出撤销 S2 起诉书的动议——基于文中所述理由以及提交供法院审议的封存材料而言已足够充分，并且这两者都将避免任何不必要或过长的延误。\n\n因此，政府谨提议如下修订后的时间表（视法院日程安排而定）：\n\n被告撤销动议：2 2024年2月2日\n政府反对意见：2024年2月14日\n被告答辩：2024年2月21日\n审判：2024年5月20日\n\n此外，政府请求法院考虑将挑选陪审团安排在审判开始日期的前一周；即在上述拟议的时间表中，陪审团挑选将于2024年5月13日开始，并在该周挑选出陪审团后结束。随后，各方当事人将于2024年5月20日返回并在当天上午开始审判。政府谨认为，此项程序将更有效率地利用各方当事人和法院的资源，因为提前挑选陪审团将使各方当事人、法院和证人对审判何时开始具有确定性。3 鉴于本案中挑选陪审团可能需要一些时间，该项提议在此也尤为适当。\n\n最后，政府获悉，两名被告均同意根据 Speedy Trial Act（《快速审判法》）将时间排除在推迟后的审判日期之外，前提是该审判将在2024年6月3日或之前开始。\n\n政府随时准备回答法院可能提出的任何问题。\n\n谨呈，\n\nDAMIAN WILLIAMS（达米安·威廉姆斯）\nUnited States Attorney（联邦检察官）\n\n签署人：\n\nRyan B. Finkel（瑞恩·B·芬克尔）\nJuliana N. Murray（朱莉安娜·N·默里）\nMicah F. Fergenson（米卡·F·弗根森）\nJustin Horton（贾斯汀·霍顿）\nAssistant United States Attorneys（助理联邦检察官）\n(212) 637-6612 / 2314 / 2190 / 2276\n\n2 除撤销动议外的其他动议将保留在当前的时间表中。\n\n3 Caproni（卡普罗尼法官）最近于2023年11月在 United States v. Bynum & Davis（美国诉拜纳姆与戴维斯案），S9 21 Cr. 603 (VEC) 中采用了此项程序。","key_entities":["Je","Kwok","Torres","Analisa Torres","Horton","Fergenson","Murray","Finkel","RICO","CIPA"],"ecf_references":[],"word_count":588,"status":"published","published_at":"2024-01-12 00:00:00","created_at":"2024-01-12","updated_at":"2026-08-23 07:22:23"}