July 17, 2023
The bankruptcy judge overseeing the Chapter 11 case of Chinese exile and accused criminal Ho Wan Kwok held a company connected to Kwok's daughter and possibly his son in civil contempt on Monday, but the jurist did not punish two attorneys whose moves she criticized during a hearing last week.
July 14, 2023
Just days after being replaced in a criminal fraud case in the Southern District of New York, Brown Rudnick LLP moved to withdraw as counsel to Ho Wan Kwok, a business partner to former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon, in Kwok's Chapter 11 case.
July 11, 2023
Two attorneys on Tuesday were threatened with contempt by a bankruptcy judge reviewing a Chapter 11 trustee's motion to sanction entities purportedly controlled by the daughter of Chinese exile and Chapter 11 debtor Ho Wan Kwok, questioning why the lawyers didn't make more of an effort to determine if the LLCs complied with subpoenas.
July 05, 2023
The U.S. Trustee's Office told a Connecticut bankruptcy judge that an attorney representing the daughter of an exiled bankrupt Chinese billionaire may be engaged in "purposeful strategic conduct" in his attempt to withdraw from an aspect of the Chapter 11 case.
June 28, 2023
A Connecticut bankruptcy court judge has approved the $23 million sale of an exiled Chinese billionaire's luxury yacht, which had been the backdrop for the 2020 arrest of his business partner, former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon.
June 21, 2023
Mei Guo, the daughter of bankrupt Chinese exile Ho Wan Kwok, is suing U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Julie A. Manning in U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, asking another federal judge for relief from multimillion-dollar orders against Guo and her company in connection with the sprawling Chapter 11 matter.
June 20, 2023
The court-appointed trustee in the bankruptcy case of exiled Chinese billionaire and alleged fraudster Ho Wan Kwok asked a Connecticut bankruptcy judge Monday to quash subpoenas from Kwok's daughter Mei Guo concerning the $24 million sale of a yacht that has long been at the center of the case, saying the court has rejected her arguments that she is the yacht's owner.
June 13, 2023
The Chapter 11 trustee overseeing the multi-million-dollar Connecticut bankruptcy of Chinese exile Ho Wan Kwok, citing a pressing need for swift investigative action, testified Tuesday that his law firm, Paul Hastings LLP, may be tempted to pull associate attorneys from the sprawling case "in a matter of weeks" if the firm's recent $12 million fee request languishes without resolution.
June 07, 2023
Noting an ongoing feud between Chinese exile Ho Wan Kwok's daughter and Kwok's Chapter 11 bankruptcy trustee, U.S. Bank National Association has asked a Connecticut bankruptcy judge to order the parties to hammer out an agreement as to who controls a $37 million escrow account while the court, not the bank, holds the cash at issue.
June 06, 2023
An admittedly "upset" Chapter 11 trustee on Tuesday accused both the daughter of Chinese exile Ho Wan Kwok and her affiliated company in Connecticut bankruptcy court of standing between him and a $37 million escrow funding that a judge determined belonged to Kwok's sprawling bankruptcy estate.