How a renegade Chinese billionaire became a center of D.C. intrigue

The details of the suit, which is being waged in federal court in the Southern District of New York, read more like a spy novel than a dry legal document. Guo, who goes by Miles Kwok in the U.S., built a sizable fortune in real estate in China before apparently running afoul of the country』s government and fleeing in 2014. A year later, he came to the U.S., where he is seeking asylum while he lives in an opulent Manhattan apartment and publicizes claims of corruption against Chinese government officials. Since Guo fled to the U.S., the Chinese government has accused him of a raft of crimes, and a former assistant has accused him of rape. Guo has denied the allegations against him, calling them politically motivated. In early 2018, the Guo-linked firm hired Strategic Vision, an obscure company led by
Washington-area executive French Wallop, to dig up information on several targets, whom the suit does not name. According to a court filing by Wallop』s firm, Guo enlisted it, "To perform research and analytics on numerous Chinese Nationals whom Mr. Guo and his undisclosed Chinese associates suspected to be engaged in activities in the United States and elsewhere that are inconsistent with their standing in the Chinese Communist Party and/or the laws of the United States."
目前正在紐約南區聯邦法院開展的訴訟的內容，看起來更像是一部間諜小說，而不是法律材料。郭文貴在美國的名字是Miles Kwok，他在與中國政府發生矛盾並於2014年出逃前，在中國房地產領域賺取了大量財富。一年後，郭文貴來到美國，並尋求政治庇護，在此期間其住在曼哈頓的豪華公寓內，並不斷公布一些中國官員的腐敗傳言。自從郭文貴來到美國后，中國政府就指控郭犯有一系列罪行，而郭文貴的一名前助理指責郭強姦她。郭文貴否認對他的指控，並稱這些指控有政治目的。2018年初，郭的一家公司雇傭了Strategic Vision公司，這是一家華盛頓地區負責人French Wallop運作的隱秘公司。郭文貴雇傭這家公司挖掘一些目標人士的信息，而這些人士的具體名字並沒有在訴訟中被提及。根據Wallop的公司的訴訟材料，郭雇傭該公司，以便「對多名中國人開展研究和分析工作，郭先生和他的未公開姓名的幾名助理懷疑這些中國人涉及在美國等地區的一些活動，而這些活動與中國共產黨的立場不一致，同時/或者不符合美國的法律。」