Ho Wan Kwok
Case Number:
5:22-bk-50073
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Firms
- Gray Reed
- O'Sullivan McCormack
- Cohn Birnbaum
- Houser LLP
- Shipman Shaiken
- Becker LLC
- Law Office of Bonnie C. Mangan
- Parrett Porto
- Clyde & Co
- Neubert Pepe
- McElroy Deutsch
- Cole Schotz
- Finn Dixon
- Goldberg Weprin
- Lawall & Mitchell
- Golenbock Eiseman
- Arnall Golden
- Saxe Doernberger
- Pillsbury Winthrop
- Randazza Legal Group
- Olshan Frome
- Pashman Stein
- Martocchio & Oliveira
- Zeisler & Zeisler
- Meister Seelig & Fein
- Sidley Austin
- Crowell & Moring
- Sheppard Mullin
- Williams & Connolly
- Shipman & Goodwin
- Robinson & Cole
- Lax & Neville
- Arnold & Porter
- Womble Bond
- ArentFox Schiff LLP
- Murphy & King
- Green & Sklarz
- Ivey Barnum
- Baker & Hostetler
- Norris McLaughlin
- Barton Gilman
- Hinckley Allen
- Togut Segal
- Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP
- Reid & Riege
- Barclay Damon
- Stroock & Stroock
- Troutman
- Wilson Elser
- Marino Zabel
- ArentFox Schiff
- Fox Rothschild
- Troy Law PLLC
- DLA Piper
- Faegre Drinker
- Cowdery Murphy
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Brown Rudnick
- Hogan Lovells
- K&L Gates
- McManimon Scotland
- Chiesa Shahinian
- Gilbride Tusa
- Pullman & Comley
- Akerman LLP
- Kelley Drye
- Lazare Potter
- Paul Hastings
- Tarter Krinsky
- Charmoy & Charmoy
- Updike Kelly
- Herbert Smith Freehills
- Law Offices of Jeffrey Hellman
Companies
- Verdolino & Lowey P.C.
- Corporate Creations
- Marcum LLP
- B&H Foto & Electronics Corp.
- Cirrus Aircraft Corp.
- Meta Platforms Inc.
- American Express Co.
- Amazon.com Inc.
- Microsoft Corp.
- Stretto Inc.
- Dundon Advisers LLC
- Sotheby's
- RV Retailer LLC
- Nardello & Co. LLC
- Zeta Interactive Corp.
- Compass Minerals International, Inc.
- DBS Group Holdings
- Mercantile Bank Corporation
- Apple Inc.
- Fox News Network LLC
- UBS Group AG
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February 05, 2024
Kwok Trustee Makes Case For $13.5M Private Jet Proceeds
Chinese exile and accused fraudster Ho Wan Kwok joked about being "poor" on social media while funding and using a Bombardier private jet that was transferred through shell entities and later sold for $13.5 million, lawyers for a bankruptcy trustee told a judge on Monday.
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February 02, 2024
Kwok 'Shell' Co. Held In Contempt For Holding Back Info
A company that Chinese businessman Ho Wan Kwok allegedly used to hide money from creditors has been held in contempt by a Connecticut bankruptcy court for violating an order to turn over discovery documents to the Chapter 11 trustee.
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January 30, 2024
Kwok Trustee Can Probe Law Firm Pick & Zabicki, Car Dealers
The Chapter 11 trustee overseeing the case of Chinese exile Ho Wan Kwok received approval from a Connecticut bankruptcy judge to probe Pick & Zabicki LLP, a law firm paid $37,500 by Kwok's son, and two luxury car dealers in connection with its asset recovery operation.
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January 22, 2024
Kwok Trustee Questions Timing Of Newest Stay Bid
Citing a looming Feb. 15 deadline for clawback actions and accusing the debtor of "ulterior motives," the trustee administering the Chapter 11 estate of accused fraudster Ho Wan Kwok has questioned the timing of the Chinese exile's latest bid in the Southern District of New York to stay his parallel bankruptcy case in Connecticut.
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January 19, 2024
Kwok Daughter Says Trustee Can't Bill Her For Taking The 5th
The daughter of exiled Chinese billionaire Ho Wan Kwok has objected to an attempt by the Chapter 11 trustee overseeing her father's bankruptcy estate to sanction and bill her $58,000 in attorney fees and costs for asserting her Fifth Amendment privileges during a deposition.
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January 18, 2024
Kwok Trustee Says 'Shell Game' Is Foiling Clawback Timeline
The Chapter 11 trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of Chinese exile Ho Wan Kwok on Thursday asked a Connecticut judge for more time to file clawback actions to recoup some of the $3.2 billion he says slid through accounts tied to the debtor, saying a "shell game" is prolonging the process.
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January 11, 2024
Judge Moves $1.59M From Co. That Funded Kwok's Lifestyle
A bankruptcy judge in Connecticut has approved a $1.59 million transfer from an Axos Bank account after agreeing that assets controlled by an alleged shell company used as a personal piggy bank by Ho Wan Kwok must be included in the Chinese exile's Chapter 11 estate.
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January 10, 2024
Kwok Daughter Should Cover Discovery Fee, Trustee Says
The court-appointed trustee of exiled Chinese billionaire Ho Wan Kwok's Chapter 11 estate has asked a Connecticut bankruptcy court to require Kwok's daughter to reimburse $58,343 in attorney fees for discovery and deposition after providing "substantially incomplete" documents regarding the shell companies Kwok allegedly used to hide his assets.
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January 09, 2024
Kwok Pleads 'Absolutely Not Guilty' To Racketeering Charges
Now-bankrupt and jailed Chinese exile Ho Wan Kwok denied a slate of new charges at a Manhattan federal arraignment Tuesday, cheerily greeting attorneys on all sides before sternly rejecting the racketeering conspiracy and money laundering charges in the fraud case.
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January 05, 2024
Kwok Renews Ch. 11 Halt Bid After New Racketeering Charge
Developments in the criminal case against Ho Wan Kwok mean a New York federal judge should rethink not pausing the exiled Chinese businessman's bankruptcy case in Connecticut, Kwok said this week, adding that the tandem proceedings could compromise his right to a fair trial.