March 12, 2025
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday torpedoed an appeal from the daughter of bankrupt Chinese exile Miles Guo — also known as Ho Won Kwok — and her attorney seeking to overturn a nearly $83,400 discovery sanction, saying the contempt ruling was merited.
August 19, 2024
The daughter of bankrupt Chinese exile Miles Guo and her New Jersey-based attorney are asking the Second Circuit to overturn a bankruptcy judge's $83,370 discovery sanction, calling the discovery requests in question unclear and the sanction excessive.
April 08, 2024
A Connecticut federal judge has upheld a bankruptcy judge's $83,370 sanction against the daughter of bankrupt Chinese exile Ho Wan Kwok, saying the record is "abundantly clear" that she, her company and her lawyers stalled and tried to avoid subpoenas from Kwok's bankruptcy trustee.
August 22, 2023
Mei Guo, the daughter of exiled Chinese billionaire Ho Wan Kwok, repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment during questioning Tuesday in her father's Connecticut Chapter 11 case after her attorney revealed that Guo is the subject of a federal criminal investigation herself.
July 21, 2023
Arguing that U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Julie A. Manning committed an "abuse of discretion," the daughter of Chinese exile Ho Wan Kwok and the New Jersey-based law firm that represents her have pushed back against a sanctions order over discovery violations in Kwok's Connecticut Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
March 28, 2023
A New Jersey law firm and several parties, including a debtor's daughter and a company she purports to solely own, have appealed a Connecticut bankruptcy judge's sanctions order in the case of Ho Wan Kwok, the Chinese businessman recently arrested and charged with perpetrating a $1 billion fraud scheme.