{"id":"court_sdny_48_0","court":"SDNY","case_no":"23-cr-00118","doc_number":48,"sub_number":0,"doc_type":"ORDER","filed_date":null,"title":"LIPMAN LAW PLLC April 17, 2023","summary_zh":"辩护律师致法庭信函 —— 美国诉 Ho Wan Kwok（郭文贵 / Guo Wengui / Miles Guo）关联案，SDNY 1:23-cr-00118 ECF #48。被告 Yanping Wang 代理律师 Lipman Law PLLC 指出，检方就其住所搜查情况向法院所作的此前陈述存在失实之处并已承认，据此要求法院立即释放已因该陈述被羁押的 Wang，并给予合理时间满足其余保释条件。","summary_en":"Defense counsel's letter to the court — in a case related to United States v. Ho Wan Kwok (Miles Guo / Guo Wengui), SDNY 1:23-cr-00118, ECF #48. Counsel for co-defendant Yanping Wang, Lipman Law PLLC, notes that the government has admitted to making misrepresentations to the court about the search of her residence, and asks the court to order her immediate release given the detention that resulted, allowing reasonable time to satisfy any remaining bail conditions.","body_en":"LIPMAN LAW PLLC\n\nApril 17, 2023\n\n*VIA ECF*  Hon. Robert W. Lehrburger Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse 500 Pearl Street New York, NY 10007-1312\n\n*Re: United States v. Yanping Wang aka \"Yvette,\"* S1 23 Cr. 118 (AT)\n\nDear Judge Lehrburger:\n\nAlong with ChaudhryLaw PLLC, we represent Ms. Wang. At 4:37 p.m. today, the government filed a letter confessing to making misrepresentations to the Court regarding the search of Ms. Wang's home. (ECF No. 47). The government has made these misrepresentations multiple times, to multiple judges; these are the misrepresentations that the government relied on to argue for the strict bail package that was imposed on Ms. Wang and for her remand until her bail conditions were met. Because Ms. Wang has been remanded (and has been detained now for over a month at the MDC) in large part on the basis of these misrepresentations, we ask the Court to order her immediate release and give her a reasonable amount of time to meet the remaining bail conditions that would be outstanding after the Court rules on our present motion for approval of two co-signers or for altering her bail conditions so as to eliminate the need for co-signers.\n\nWe note that the government appears to blame the FBI agent in charge of the search for its misrepresentations. That explanation is difficult to credit. To begin, we started asking questions about the government's factual assertions almost immediately after Ms. Wang was presented on March 15, 2023. For example, on March 31, we wrote to the government to specifically challenge the factual assertions (some of which) it now admits were not true and to ask for proof of those allegations. Here is what we wrote:\n\nCounsel,\n\nYou have made a number of factual assertion (sic) in your bail-related filings with the court. To facilitate our analysis of and response to these factual assertions, please provide immediately all of the evidence obtained during the search of Ms. Wang's apartment, including:\n\nLIPMAN LAW PLLC\n\nHON. ROBERT W. LEHRBURGER APRIL 17, 2023 PAGE 2 OF 3\n\n> All photographs taken in relation to the search; All videos taken in relation to the search; All photographs of the cash discovered and seized; please make sure the resolution is high enough to make the dates on bills legible. If you do not have high-resolution photographs, please take them and provide them; All photographs and videos of cell phones \"inside original iPhone packaging\"; All photographs and videos related to the discovery of a cellphone \"found between mattresses of [Ms. Wang's] bed\"; All photographs and videos related to the discovery of the laptop in Ms. Wang's closet; All photographs and videos of any and all passports found in Ms. Wang's apartment; All documents that support your assertions that Ms. Wang received \"\\$699,980 worth of HCN\" in 2021 and that she owns these assets now; All documents substantiating your assertion that Ms. Wang controls the accounts containing \\$34 million; All documents supporting your assertion that there are bank accounts in the name of \"her BVI-registered company\";\n\nAll other evidence the government plans to rely on in support of its application that Ms. Wang be detained or be subject to more strict bail conditions, as set out in your letter to the court from this morning;\n\nThe search warrant inventory; and\n\nNotes of the pretrial services officer and her intern who conducted Ms. Wang's pretrial interview.\n\nIf the government is to be believed that it discovered the truth only today, one must conclude that it did not bother to review the evidence in its possession even after we asked for proof of its assertions. Indeed, it did not do so even after the hearing before Your Honor on April 4, 2023, in which we challenged the veracity of these same assertions on the basis that they were contradicted by the evidence (*i.e.,* photo logs prepared at the search and the photos taken by the agents). The very specificity of descriptions in the evidence log and the photo log made contemporaneously by the agents conducting the search cast doubt on the explanation that the (unnamed) FBI agent in charge of the search gave the government bad information at the start. It is also hard to credit that an agent would misremember something like the presence of documents and phones secreted between couch cushions or mattresses.\n\nFinally, rather than do the right thing and withdraw its application for remand, even in the face of its admission that it misrepresented critical facts, the government persists in spinning the results of the search. As we described for the Court and as the government well knows, Ms. Wang lives in a 740-square-foot apartment with very little extra furniture, without a desk, and without any kind of storage for documents or old phones. Of course, her old phones were found in bags in the closet. Of course, documents were found in bags in the living room and\n\nLIPMAN LAW PLLC\n\nHON. ROBERT W. LEHRBURGER APRIL 17, 2023 PAGE 3 OF 3\n\nbedroom, including her purse. The photo log and evidence log make that clear. These ordinary circumstances cannot fill the government's hollow arguments that Ms. Wang is a flight risk requiring detention, or even the current onerous bail conditions.\n\nThe only thing the government has established is that it will do anything—including making misrepresentations to the Court—to keep Ms. Wang locked up. We respectfully request the Court order Ms. Wang immediately released and allow Ms. Wang ten days to comply with whatever bail conditions the Court deems appropriate in light of the unique circumstances here.\n\nRespectfully submitted,\n\n**Lipman Law PLLC**\n\nSignature\n\nAlex Lipman","body_zh":"LIPMAN LAW PLLC（利普曼律师事务所）\n\n2023年4月17日\n\n*通过 ECF*  Hon. Robert W. Lehrburger（罗伯特·W·勒伯格法官） 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 10007-1312\n\n*案由：United States v. Yanping Wang aka \"Yvette\"（美国诉王雁平，又名“Yvette”）*，S1 23 Cr. 118 (AT)\n\n尊敬的 Lehrburger 法官：\n\n我们与 ChaudhryLaw PLLC 一同代表王女士。今天下午4点37分，政府提交了一封信函，承认就搜查王女士住所一事向法院作出了失实陈述。(ECF No. 47)。政府曾多次向多位法官作出这些失实陈述；政府正是依据这些失实陈述，主张对王女士施加严苛的保释条件组合，并在其满足保释条件前将其还押（remand）。鉴于王女士在很大程度上是基于这些失实陈述而被还押（且目前已在大都会拘留中心 [MDC] 被羁押了一个多月），我们请求法院裁定立即将其释放，并给予其合理的时间来满足剩余的保释条件——这些条件将在法院就我们目前提出的批准两名共同签署人、或变更其保释条件以取消对共同签署人要求的动议作出裁定后尚待履行。\n\n我们注意到，政府似乎将其失实陈述归咎于负责搜查的 FBI（联邦调查局）特工。这一解释难以令人信服。首先，在王女士于2023年3月15日首次过堂（presented）后，我们几乎立即就开始对政府的事实性断言提出质疑。例如，在3月31日，我们致信政府，专门就其目前承认不属实的事实性断言（其中一部分）提出质疑，并要求其提供这些指控的证据。以下是我们所写的内容：\n\n律师：\n\n你在向法院提交的与保释相关的材料中作出了若干事实性断言（原文如此）。为便于我们分析和回应这些事实性断言，请立即提供在搜查王女士公寓期间取得的所有证据，包括：\n\nLIPMAN LAW PLLC\n\nHON. ROBERT W. LEHRBURGER 2023年4月17日 第2页，共3页\n\n> 与搜查相关的所有照片；与搜查相关的所有视频；所发现并扣押的现金的所有照片；请确保分辨率足够高，以便看清钞票上的日期。若你方没有高分辨率照片，请拍摄并提供；“置于 iPhone 原包装内”的手机的所有照片和视频；与在“[王女士的]床垫之间发现”手机相关的全部照片和视频；与在王女士衣橱内发现笔记本电脑相关的全部照片和视频；在王女士公寓内发现的任何及所有护照的照片和视频；支持你方关于王女士在2021年收到“价值699,980美元的 HCN”且其目前拥有这些资产这一断言的所有文件；证实你方关于王女士控制含有3400万美元账户这一断言的所有文件；支持你方关于存在以“其在英属维尔京群岛（BVI）注册的公司”名义开设的银行账户这一断言的所有文件；\n\n如你方今天上午致法院的信函中所载，政府计划用以支持其关于王女士应被羁押或应受制于更严苛保释条件的申请的所有其他证据；\n\n搜查令扣押物品清单；以及\n\n负责对王女士进行审前访谈的审前服务官员及其主管实习生的记录。\n\n如果政府关于其直到今天才发现真相的说法属实，人们就必然得出结论：即使在我们要求其就断言提供证据之后，政府也根本没有去查阅其所掌握的证据。事实上，甚至在2023年4月4日于阁下面前举行的听证会——我们在会上基于这些断言与证据相矛盾（*即*搜查时制作的照片记录以及特工拍摄的照片）而质疑了这些断言的真实性——之后，政府也仍未查阅。实施搜查的特工当时同步制作的证据记录和照片记录中的描述极其具体，这让负责搜查的（未具名）FBI 特工一开始向政府提供了错误信息这一解释疑点重重。此外，特工会记错文件和手机被隐匿在沙发垫或床垫之间之类的事情，同样难以令人置信。\n\n最后，政府非但没有采取正当做法并撤回其还押申请，反而在承认其就关键事实作了失实陈述的情况下，仍坚持歪曲搜查结果。正如我们向法院所陈述的，且政府也心知肚明，王女士居住在一个740平方英尺的公寓内，几乎没有多余的家具，没有书桌，也没有任何用于存放文件或旧手机的储物设施。当然，她的旧手机是在衣橱里的袋子中发现的。当然，文件是在客厅和\n\nLIPMAN LAW PLLC\n\nHON. ROBERT W. LEHRBURGER 2023年4月17日 第3页，共3页\n\n卧室的袋子中发现的，包括她的手提包。照片记录和证据记录清楚地表明了这一点。这些平常的情况无法填补政府毫无根据的论点，即王女士具有潜逃风险需要予以羁押，甚至无法证明目前的苛刻保释条件合理。\n\n政府唯一证实了的事情是：为了将王女士关押起来，它会不择手段——包括向法院作出失实陈述。我们谨请求法院裁定立即释放王女士，并鉴于本案的特殊情况，给予王女士十天时间以遵守法院认为适当的任何保释条件。\n\n谨此提交，\n\n**Lipman Law PLLC**\n\n签名\n\nAlex Lipman（亚历克斯·利普曼）","key_entities":["Yanping Wang","Je"],"ecf_references":[{"doc_number":47,"court":"SDNY"}],"word_count":937,"status":"published","published_at":null,"created_at":null,"updated_at":"2026-08-23 07:12:29"}