{"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":"被告人陈述信函（Exhibit B）—— 美国诉 Ho Wan Kwok（郭文贵 / Guo Wengui / Miles Guo）案，SDNY 1:23-cr-00118 ECF #469（2024年10月4日）。被告人 Yanping Wang 向法院 Torres 提交个人陈述信，阐述其生活经历、与郭文贵之间的关系、在 Pangu 公司长期工作经历，以及因支持郭文贵而受到中共压力的情况；对受害投资者表示深切悔意并承诺做出补偿。","summary_en":"Defendant Statement Letter (Exhibit B) — United States v. Ho Wan Kwok (Miles Guo / Guo Wengui / 郭文贵), SDNY 1:23-cr-00118 ECF #469 (October 4, 2024). Defendant Yanping Wang submits to Judge Torres a personal statement letter recounting her life background, relationship with Miles Guo, long-term employment at Pangu company, and pressures from the CCP resulting from her support of Guo; expresses deep remorse toward harmed investors and commits to restitution.","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":"附件 B\n\n---\n\n尊敬的 Torres（托雷斯）法官：\n我知道各位人士可能已经向法官阁下陈述了他们眼中关于我的经历。然而，我认为让法官阁下直接从我这里了解我的经历至关重要且必不可少。我现年45岁，在人生中承担过多种角色：女儿、妻子、母亲、姐姐、员工，以及中国民主运动的成员。\n我出生在中国实行“独生子女政策”（One Child Policy）初期。在我出生后，我父母又生育了一个女儿，随后又生育了一个儿子。由于该政策极其严厉的后果，我的妹妹在出生几分钟后即被杀害。我父母决定留下我的弟弟，因为在当时，传统观念认为男孩日后可以供养家庭并延续香火，但我的父母也因此面临巨额罚款和工作降职。\n我妹妹的夭折给我母亲留下了持久的影响，她在余生中深受其折磨。她年仅四十九岁便因肺癌去世。我曾深信，她的去世是因我妹妹夭折造成的终生创伤所致。然而，在我母亲去世数年后，我父亲被确诊患有与我母亲完全相同的癌症，并在六十一岁时离世。大约在我父母相继去世的时期，我们社区有多人被确诊患有不同类型的癌症。我意识到，我父母所患的癌症很可能是由于暴露在与煤矿开采相关的毒素环境中引起的。在我的家乡，煤矿开采是主要的经济来源。自来水供应通常限制在每天两到三小时，天空总是灰蒙蒙的，空气从未清新过，一切事物表面总是附着一层黑色残留物。\n2000年，我在大学里结识了我的丈夫。他是我的初恋男友，我也是他的初恋女友。他平静、寡言、尊重他人且谦逊——这些往往是良好中国式教养所具备的品质。我们成了最好的朋友，形影不离，一起读大学，共同规划未来。这一切在2016年戛然而止，当时中国国家安全机关人员和警察将他抓捕，企图以此强迫我返回中国。中国共产党（Chinese Community Party，“CCP”）一心只想针对我，是因为他们的目标是 Miles Guo（郭文贵）先生以及我的雇主——总部设在北京的 Beijing Pangu Investment LTD（北京盘古氏投资有限公司）。尽管未被指控犯有任何罪行，我丈夫仍被拘留了十二个多小时，被迫在没有机会阅读的情况下签署文件，并被要求在仅有一条签名线的空白文件上签字。获释后，他被强制要求在我有任何试图联系他的行为后向警方报告。两年后，在引诱我回国未果后，他们强迫我丈夫与我离婚。当时，我们唯一的孩子——我的儿子，年仅五岁。\n在中共强迫我丈夫与我离婚后，中国国家安全机关人员和警察将焦点和压力转移到了我弟弟身上。多年来，他一直处于严密监控之下，即便在他担任我父亲唯一照料者期间也是如此。2022年，我弟弟被捕，其住所遭到搜查。在三十出头的年纪，可能由于被捕、住所被搜查的压力，以及此前照料我父亲的劳累，导致我弟弟患上了糖尿病和高血压。当年我祖父中风时，我曾照料了他一年多直至他去世。我深知承担这一角色是多么艰辛和充满压力。我弟弟现在依靠药物维持，且余生很可能都需要服药。我的弟弟承担了无数家庭责任，尤其是在我身处美国期间。在我眼中，他已经成长为一名极其富有担当的男人。我常常觉得，在我父亲去世后，正是他真正激励了我保持坚强并追求自己的人生信仰。\n\n---\n\n我一直认为自己是个勤奋努力的人。在中国读全日制大学期间，我同时给三个孩子做家教，利用课余时间往返于他们的家和我们学校之间接送他们，以期减轻父母的一些经济压力。在法国读全日制大学期间，我做过服务员、寿司厨师和私人教师。回顾大学时光，我没有任何空闲时间，总是发现自己不是在学习就是在工作。\n大学毕业后我的第一份全职工作是在 Beijing Pangu Investment LTD（北京盘古氏投资有限公司，“Pangu/盘古”），这是一家由 Miles Guo 先生家族拥有的公司，我在那里工作了十多年。盘古在北京运营着一个高端综合体（“Pangu Plaza/盘古大观”），其中包括写字楼、公寓、酒店和数家餐厅。我最初被聘为业主的秘书兼翻译。后来我被提升为国际关系主管。我工作时间长、节奏极快，几乎没有工作与生活的平衡。然而，我接受了这样的工作，因为我想谋生、供养整个家庭，并能为我儿子的教育及不可预见的家庭医疗开支存钱。盘古一直对我很好，甚至将我的带薪产假增加了一倍。当我决定辞职抚养儿子时，他们告诉我如果我想回来，他们会立即重新录用我，他们确实这么做了。\n2015年，盘古派我和几位同事前往纽约长期出差，计划在三到六个月内回国。然而事情急转直下，我获悉中共派警察和国家安全机关人员前往了盘古大观。他们开始抓捕多名家族成员和员工，且抓捕行动在接下来的几个月里持续升级。2015年9月，我从纽约前往香港寻找回国的机会。截至2015年底，我的一名外派同事返回北京，在飞机落地后立即被捕。在2015年至2016年期间，我在香港、纽约和伦敦之间往返，在极度恐惧中耐心等待回国，担心一旦回国就会被中共逮捕。截至2017年7月，即我离开香港前往纽约两个月后，我们的一位香港同事遭到绑架并被秘密押送回中国大陆。自那时起，我便再未离开过美国。在此期间，我的家人非常为我担心，嘱咐我不要回去，注意安全。\n在2017年至2018年期间，我经历了人生中最艰难的时期。我被多重危机压得喘不过气来：我父亲的病情、中共对我丈夫和弟弟日益增加的压力，以及我和家人随时会被逮捕或迫害的恐惧。在我父亲去世三个月后，我因患胃部肿瘤住院。尽管诊断结果为非活动性癌症，但我遭遇了严重出血和血红蛋白水平显著下降，在切除肿瘤前需要进行多次输血。\n大约在此时，我们的中国民主运动（亦称爆料革命/Whistleblower Movement）兴起，使我成为了中共的直接目标。他们每天黑进我的电子设备，在网络上充斥着虚假信息、篡改的照片和伪造的音频。我每天醒来都会在网上看到被篡改的家人照片，其中包括我四岁儿子的照片。我手机里保存的任何内容都有被泄露的风险。连自己儿子的照片都无法保留，这让我极度心碎。我失去了使用中国和香港银行账户的权限，我相信这是中共所为。我的\n\n---\n\n病历记录被黑客窃取并发布在网络上。我有时还会遭到中国人员的跟踪骚扰。情况变得极其严峻，以至于我不得不向 Supreme Court, Civil Term, New York County（纽约县最高法院民事庭）申请针对一名中国籍男子的永久保护令（Permanent Order of Protection），该男子是对我进行长达数年“人肉搜索”和跟踪骚扰的人员之一。\n除了雇主（郭先生家族拥有的企业）向我发放的标准薪资待遇外，他们还为我提供了个人安保和交通保障。在我父亲去世后，盘古帮助我弟弟安葬了我父亲。同样，当我住院接受肿瘤手术时，郭先生的女儿 Mei（郭美）帮我料理个人事务，每天陪伴在我身边，成了我最好的朋友之一。我的雇主待我如家人，正因如此，除了竭尽所能努力工作外，我也对他们产生了极大的忠诚。\n我并非想为自己做出的错误选择开脱，但我确实认为法官阁下有必要了解当时我生活中发生的诸多创伤性事件，这些事件影响了我的判断力。我曾认为我的雇主是在我个人生活遭遇这些创伤时期给予我帮助的人。当时，我的工作是我唯一真正的社交途径。我现在认识到，我本应提出更多疑问并予以拒绝，但在当时，鉴于所发生的一切，我的工作成了我的整个世界。\n我从未有过伤害他人的意图，我深知每一分血汗钱的价值，这体现在我对本案中遭受重大经济损失的受害人抱有深深的同理心与悔意。我理解他人错失的机会和损失是无法弥补的，也认识到自身在脆弱之下的挣扎。令我极其悲痛和愧疚的是，因为我们，投资者在 Haymen Fund（喜马拉雅基金）中损失了三千万美元。对于投资者失去了 GTV——首个支持民主、反对中共的媒体平台，我也同样感到痛心。我极为推崇美国的法律制度，并致力于理解和融入其法律实践。我非常感谢美国所提供的保护和机遇，并坚决致力于弥补过错、纠正错误。\n我明白法官阁下在阅读这封信时对我核实信息的机会可能有限，我唯一的身份证件——中国护照刚刚过期。从2015年至今，中共针对我进行了近10年的打压，导致我无家可归、流离失所。人生的经历不仅取决于遭遇了什么，更取决于如何去面对。我相信终有一天，当我儿子长大成人，他会翻遍全世界寻找关于我的任何信息。我绝不会、也绝不能让他失望。如果能给我机会纠正错误并做出弥补，正如我祖父和父亲所教导我的那样，跌倒后重新站起来至关重要——我定将全力以赴做到这一点。感谢法官阁下抽出时间阅读我的经历。\n此致，\nYanping Wang（王雁平）\n日期：2024年9月30日\n---","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":"2026-08-23 07:16:18"}