{"id":"court_sdny_469_2","court":"SDNY","case_no":"23-cr-00118","doc_number":469,"sub_number":2,"doc_type":"LETTER","filed_date":"2024-10-04","title":"Exhibit B Dear Judge Torres,","summary_zh":null,"summary_en":null,"body_en":"Exhibit B\n\n---\n\n1\nDear Judge Torres,\nI understand that various individuals may have presented their perspective of my story to your\nHonor. However, I believe it is important and crucial for your Honor to hear my story directly\nfrom me. I am 45 years old and have held various roles in my life: daughter, wife, mother, sister,\nemployee, and a member of a Chinese democracy movement.\nI was born in the beginning of the “One Child Policy” in China. After I was born, my parents had\na daughter, and later a son. Due to the extremely harsh consequences of this Policy, my sister was\nmurdered minutes after birth. My parents decided to keep my brother because, at the time, it was\ncustomary to believe that boys would later provide for the family and continue the bloodline, but\nmy parents faced heavy fines and workplace demotions because they kept him.\nMy sister’s death left a lasting impact on my mother, who was deeply affected for the rest of her\nlife. She passed away from lung cancer when she was only forty-nine years old. I truly believed\nthat her death was a result of lifelong trauma from my sister’s death. However, several years after\nmy mother passed away, my father was diagnosed with the identical type of cancer that my mother\nhad, and he passed away at sixty-one years old. Around the time that my parents passed away,\nseveral people from my community were diagnosed with different cancers. I realized that both of\nmy parents’ cancer was likely caused by environmental exposure to toxins associated with coal\nmining. In my hometown, coal mining was the primary source of income. Running water was\ntypically limited to two to three hours per day, the sky was always gray, the air was never fresh,\nand there was always a black residue on everything.\nIn 2000, I met my husband in college. He was my first boyfriend, and I was his first girlfriend.\nHe was calm, quiet, respectful, and humble traits often associated with a good Chinese\nupbringing. We became to be best friends, and did everything together, such as attending college\nand planning our future. This all ended in 2016, when the Chinese National Security Agents and\nPolice arrested him, in effort to coerce me to return to China. The Chinese Community Party\n(“CCP”) solely wanted me because they were targeting Mr. Miles Guo, and my employer Beijing\nPangu Investment LTD, headquartered in Beijing. Despite having not been accused of any crime,\nmy husband was detained more than twelve hours, compelled to sign documents without having\nan opportunity to read them, and required to sign blank documents with just a signature line. After\nhis release, he was mandated to report to the Police after any attempt that I made to contact him.\nTwo years later, after their unsuccessful attempt to lure me back to China, they forced my husband\nto divorce me. At this time, my son, who was our only child, was just five years old.\nAfter the CCP compelled my husband to divorce me, the Chinese National Security Agents and\nPolice redirected their focus and pressure onto my brother. He has been under close surveillance\nfor years, even while he served as my father’s sole caretaker. In 2022, my brother was arrested, and\nhis home was raided. While in his early thirties, presumably from the stress from the arrest, the raid,\nand from previously having managed my father's care, led my brother to develop diabetes and\nhypertension. When my grandfather had a stroke, I became his caretaker, for over one year, until\nhe passed away. I know firsthand how demanding and stressful such a role is. My brother now\ndepends on medication and will likely need it for the rest of his life. My younger brother took on\nnumerous family responsibilities, especially while I was in the United States. I saw him as having\n\n---\n\n2\nmatured into a remarkably responsible man. I often thought that he was the person who truly\ninspired me to be strong and pursue what I believe in life after my father had passed away.\nI always thought of myself as a hard worker. While a full-time college student in China, I tutored\nthree children simultaneously, using my spare time to transport them between their homes and\nour campus, aiming to alleviate some financial pressure on my parents. While a full-time college\nstudent in France, I worked as a waitress, a sushi chef, and a personal tutor. Looking back at my\ncollege days, I did not have any free time, and always found myself either studying or working.\nMy first full-time job after college was with Beijing Pangu Investment LTD (“Pangu”), a company\nowned by Mr. Miles Guo’s family, and I worked there for over a decade. Pangu operated a high-\nend complex in Beijing (“Pangu Plaza”), which consisted of offices, condominiums, hotel, and\nseveral restaurants. I was initially hired as a secretary and translator for the owners. I was later\npromoted to the director of international relations. I worked long hours, very fast paced, and had\nlittle work life balance. However, I accepted this type of employment because I wanted to earn a\nliving, support my entire family, be able to put money aside for my son’s education and\nunforeseen familial medical expenses. Pangu always treated me well and even doubled my paid\nmaternity leave. When I made the decision to quit and raise my son, they told me if I want to\nreturn, they will immediately hire me back, and they did.\nIn 2015, Pangu sent me and a few colleagues on an extended business trip to New York, with\nplans to return home in three to six months. Things took an unsettling turn when I discovered that\nthe CCP had sent Police and National Security Agents to Pangu Plaza. They began arresting\nseveral family members and employees, and the arrests continued to escalate over the following\nmonths. In September 2015, I went to Hong Kong from New York to look for an opportunity to\nreturn home. By the end of 2015, one of my expatriated colleagues went back to Beijing and was\nimmediately arrested when he landed. Between 2015 and 2016, I traveled between Hong Kong,\nNew York, and London, patiently waiting to return home under extreme fear that if I returned\nhome, I would be arrested by the CCP. By July 2017, two months after I left Hong Kong for New\nYork, one of our Hong Kong colleagues was kidnapped and covertly transported back to China.\nSince then, I have not left the United States. During this time, my family was worried about me\nand told me not to return and to stay safe.\nBetween 2017 and 2018, I went through some of the toughest times of my life. I was overwhelmed\nby multiple crises: my father's illness, mounting pressure on my husband and brother from the\nCCP, and fear that my family and I will be arrested or persecuted. Three months after my father's\ndeath, I was hospitalized with a stomach tumor. Although the diagnosis was inactive cancer, I\nfaced severe bleeding and a significant drop in hemoglobin levels, which required multiple blood\ntransfusions before the tumor could be removed.\nAround this time, our Chinese democracy movement, also known as the whistleblower movement,\nhad emerged, making me a direct target of the CCP. They hacked into my electronic devices daily,\ninundating the internet with misinformation, doctored photos, and false audio. I would wake up to\nseeing manipulated photographs of my family posted on the internet, to include photographs of\nmy four-year-old son. Anything that I saved on my phone was at risk of being leaked. It was\nextremely heartbreaking not even being able to keep a photo of my son. I lost access to both my\nChinese and Hong Kong bank accounts, and I believe the CCP was responsible for this. My\n\n---\n\n3\nmedical records were hacked and published on the internet. I would sometimes be stalked by\nChinese individuals. The conditions became so harsh that I had to obtain a permanent order of\nprotection in the Supreme Court, Civil Term, New York County, against a male Chinese\nindividual who was one of the individuals who had “doxxed” and stalked me for several years.\nIn addition to my standard salary package with my employer, the business owned by Mr. Guo’s\nfamily, they provided me with personal security protection and transportation. After my father\npassed away, Pangu helped my brother bury my father. Similarly, when I was in the hospital for\ntumor surgery, Mr. Guo’s daughter, Mei, managed my personal affairs, was by my side daily,\nand became one of my best friends. My employer treated me like family, and that is why, in\naddition to working as hard as I can, I developed a great amount of loyalty to them.\nI do not want to excuse the poor choices I made, but I do think it is important for your Honor to\nunderstand the many traumatic things that were going on in my life at this time, which affected\nmy judgement. I believed my employer was helping me during these traumatic times in my\npersonal life. My job was my only real social outlet at the time. I now recognize that I should have\nasked more questions and said no, but at the time, given everything else that was going on, my\njob became my whole world.\nMy intent has never been to cause harm, and I have a deep understanding of the value of hard-\nearned money, reflected in my deep empathy and regret for the victims who have suffered\nsignificant financial loss in this case. I understand that others’ missed opportunities and losses are\nirreplaceable and recognize my own struggles with vulnerability. I am extremely saddened and\napologetic that, because of us, the investors lost thirty-million dollars in the Haymen Fund. I am\njust as upset that the investors lost GTV, the very first pro-democracy anti CCP media outlet. I\nhold the U.S. legal system in high regard and have committed myself to understanding and\nadapting to its practices. I am appreciative of the protections and opportunities provided by the\nU.S. and am resolute in my commitment to making amends and addressing my errors.\nI understand your Honor may have limited verification about me, by reading this letter, my only\nID -- Chinese passport is just expired. From 2015 to now, the CCP has targeted me for almost 10\nyears, which caused me to become homeless and stateless. Experience is defined not only by what\nhappens to me, but how I respond to it. I believe that one day, when my son is grown up, he will\nsearch the world to try and find any information about me. I will not, and I can not, let him down.\nIf given the chance to address my mistakes and make amends, and as my grandfather and father\ntaught me, it is essential to rise after falling – I am committed to doing just that.Thank you, your\nHonor, for taking your time to read my story.\nSincerely,\nYanping Wang\nDATED: September 30, 2024\n4\n\n---\n\n4","body_zh":null,"key_entities":["CCP","Guo","Miles Guo","Yanping Wang","Torres","GTV"],"ecf_references":[],"word_count":1864,"status":"published","published_at":"2024-10-04 00:00:00","created_at":"2024-10-04","updated_at":"2026-07-06 20:52:41"}