China's hunt for fugitive businessman, Guo Wengui, kicks off Manhattan caper worthy of spy thriller

[Jacque67 7,328]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-hunt-for-guo-wengui-a-fugitive-businessman-kicks-off-manhattan-caper-worthy-of-spy-thriller-1508717977

 

FBI standoffs w/ Chinese agents at Penn Station and JFK...plus Steve Wynn involvement.

 

wynn, a major GOP donor, appears to be lobbying Trump, on behalf of the Chinese gov ( his Macau casino empire can't operate w/o license from Chinese territories)

 

Crooked Trump was almost convinced to deport the Chinese dissident, until he was reminded Guo Wengui had membership at Mar-a-lago.

 

Fore!

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The report said the letter had been hand-delivered to him at a private dinner by Steve Wynn, a Las Vegas casino magnate and Republican National Committee finance chairman with interests in the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau, for which Wynn relies on Beijing for licensing.

The marketing director for Wynn Resorts Ltd, Michael Weaver, told the Journal in a written statement: “[T]hat report regarding Mr Wynn is false. Beyond that, he doesn’t have any comment.”

Weaver did not respond to a request for comment from the Guardian on what part of the story was false and whether Wynn had ever delivered a letter from the Chinese government to Trump.

The Journal report said that aides tried to persuade Trump out of going ahead with Guo’s deportation, noting he was a member of the president’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. The aides later ensured that the deportation would not go ahead. 

There was no immediate response from the White House or the state department to a request to comment on the report. A state department representative told the Journal: “Decisions on these kinds of matters are based on interagency consensus.”

A justice department representative said: “It is a criminal offense for an individual, other than a diplomatic or consular officer or attache, to act in the United States as an agent of a foreign power without prior notification to the attorney general.”

[Jacque67 7,328]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/23/trumps-call-for-chinese-dissident-to-be-deported-based-on-beijing-letter-report

hmm...a fara investigation needed?

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1 hour ago, Jacque67 said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/23/trumps-call-for-chinese-dissident-to-be-deported-based-on-beijing-letter-report

hmm...a fara investigation needed?

The Wall Street Journal has done two articles on him that I know about thus far. I will read the latest one tomorrow when I am at work. But it looks like Xi Jinping wanted him to play ball like the other CEO's in China or be put in prison. He choose instead to seek asylum here in the USA and try to expose them. 

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3 hours ago, Jacque67 said:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-hunt-for-guo-wengui-a-fugitive-businessman-kicks-off-manhattan-caper-worthy-of-spy-thriller-1508717977

 

FBI standoffs w/ Chinese agents at Penn Station and JFK...plus Steve Wynn involvement.

 

wynn, a major GOP donor, appears to be lobbying Trump, on behalf of the Chinese gov ( his Macau casino empire can't operate w/o license from Chinese territories)

 

Crooked Trump was almost convinced to deport the Chinese dissident, until he was reminded Guo Wengui had membership at Mar-a-lago.

 

Fore!

 Wynn has Trump on Speed dial?  China Connection?  Three casinos in  Macau running under license 

Edited October 24, 2017 by Il Mango Dulce

[Jacque67 7,328]

3 hours ago, cyberfx1024 said:

The Wall Street Journal has done two articles on him that I know about thus far. I will read the latest one tomorrow when I am at work. But it looks like Xi Jinping wanted him to play ball like the other CEO's in China or be put in prison. He choose instead to seek asylum here in the USA and try to expose them. 

Yep. It's an amazing story.

2 hours ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

 Wynn has Trump on Speed dial?  China Connection?  Three casinos in  Macau running under license 

Awesome.

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

6 hours ago, Jacque67 said:

Yep. It's an amazing story.

Awesome.

Here is the article from the WSJ: China’s Pursuit of Fugitive Businessman Guo Wengui Kicks Off Manhattan Caper Worthy of Spy Thriller. The previous article from the WSJ is named: Chinese Fugitive Guo Wengui Amasses War Chest to Battle Beijing.

 

Here are the links according to date:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-fugitive-amasses-war-chest-to-battle-beijing-1507023004

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-hunt-for-guo-wengui-a-fugitive-businessman-kicks-off-manhattan-caper-worthy-of-spy-thriller-1508717977

 

 

Jacque I don't know if it's behind a paywall or not but if it is I can send you the text of the article because I do have a subscription to the WSJ. Because believe it or not I like to get as much news as possible I am like a News Junkie, and the WSJ is actually fairly in the middle on most things. If they have an article on one point the following day they will have an article about the same subject from a different point of view. Also I have seen it on alot of the smaller articles where the author of that article has responded to comments about the article. 

[Jacque67 7,328]

10 minutes ago, cyberfx1024 said:

Here is the article from the WSJ: China’s Pursuit of Fugitive Businessman Guo Wengui Kicks Off Manhattan Caper Worthy of Spy Thriller. The previous article from the WSJ is named: Chinese Fugitive Guo Wengui Amasses War Chest to Battle Beijing.

 

Here are the links according to date:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-fugitive-amasses-war-chest-to-battle-beijing-1507023004

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-hunt-for-guo-wengui-a-fugitive-businessman-kicks-off-manhattan-caper-worthy-of-spy-thriller-1508717977

 

 

Jacque I don't know if it's behind a paywall or not but if it is I can send you the text of the article because I do have a subscription to the WSJ. Because believe it or not I like to get as much news as possible I am like a News Junkie, and the WSJ is actually fairly in the middle on most things. If they have an article on one point the following day they will have an article about the same subject from a different point of view. Also I have seen it on alot of the smaller articles where the author of that article has responded to comments about the article. 

Thanks Cyber. Much appreciated. Steve Wynn needs to be investigated.

[Jacque67 7,328]

26 minutes ago, cyberfx1024 said:

Here is the article from the WSJ: China’s Pursuit of Fugitive Businessman Guo Wengui Kicks Off Manhattan Caper Worthy of Spy Thriller. The previous article from the WSJ is named: Chinese Fugitive Guo Wengui Amasses War Chest to Battle Beijing.

 

Here are the links according to date:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-fugitive-amasses-war-chest-to-battle-beijing-1507023004

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-hunt-for-guo-wengui-a-fugitive-businessman-kicks-off-manhattan-caper-worthy-of-spy-thriller-1508717977

 

 

Jacque I don't know if it's behind a paywall or not but if it is I can send you the text of the article because I do have a subscription to the WSJ. Because believe it or not I like to get as much news as possible I am like a News Junkie, and the WSJ is actually fairly in the middle on most things. If they have an article on one point the following day they will have an article about the same subject from a different point of view. Also I have seen it on alot of the smaller articles where the author of that article has responded to comments about the article. 

As a news junkie you might like this oldie. Wynn has a $40M elbow!

 

The guests came at five-thirty, and Wynn ushered them in. On the wall to his left and right were several paintings, including a Matisse, a Renoir, and “Le Rêve.” The other three walls were glass, looking out onto an enclosed garden. He began to tell the story of the Picasso’s provenance. As he talked, he had his back to the picture. He was wearing jeans and a golf shirt. Wynn suffers from an eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa, which affects his peripheral vision and therefore, occasionally, his interaction with proximate objects, and, without realizing it, he backed up a step or two as he talked. “So then I made a gesture with my right hand,” Wynn said, “and my right elbow hit the picture. It punctured the picture.” There was a distinct ripping sound. Wynn turned around and saw, on Marie-Thérèse Walter’s left forearm, in the lower-right quadrant of the painting, “a slight puncture, a two-inch tear. We all just stopped. I said, ‘I can’t believe I just did that. Oh, . Oh, man.’”

Wynn turned around again. He put his pinkie in the hole and observed that a flap of canvas had been pushed back. He told his guests, “Well, I’m glad I did it and not you.” He said that he’d have to call Cohen and William Acquavella, his dealer in New York, to tell them that the deal was off. Then he resumed talking about his paintings, almost, but not quite, as though he hadn’t just delivered what one of the guests would later call, in an impromptu stab at actuarial math, a “forty-million-dollar elbow.”

A few hours later, they all met for dinner, and Wynn was in a cheerful mood. “My feeling was, It’s a picture, it’s my picture, we’ll fix it. Nobody got sick or died. It’s a picture. It took Picasso five hours to paint it.” Mary Boies ordered a six-litre bottle of Bordeaux, and when it was empty she had everyone sign the label, to commemorate the calamitous afternoon. Wynn signed it “Mary, it’s all about scale—Steve.” Everyone had agreed to take what one participant called a “vow of silence.” (The vow lasted a week, until someone leaked the rudiments of the story to the Post.)

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/10/23/the-40-million-elbow