Bannon was nabbed on the yacht of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui
and the level intrigue when this is all said and done will make our heads spin..
https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/06/07/guo-wengui-chinese-billionaire-1356594
"Guo Wengui allegedly offered a pair of conservative operatives $9 million for dirt on his enemies’ porn habits and out-of-wedlock children. Now he’s suing.
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began when a firm tied to the billionaire, real estate magnate Guo Wengui, allegedly hired a private intelligence firm to dig up dirt on Chinese nationals — including their bank records, porn habits and any illegitimate children — then sued, saying the firm failed to deliver. In turn, the intelligence firm has claimed Guo’s side gave it a thumb drive loaded with sophisticated malware and that he sought information on people whose records were deemed sensitive by the U.S. government.
The ongoing suit, the details of which are reported here for the first time, deepens the already considerable mystique surrounding the billionaire businessman. An ally of Steve Bannon’s and a fugitive from Chinese authorities, Guo now lives in New York. His presence in the U.S. has exacerbated tensions between China’s ruling Communist Party and the administration of President Donald Trump.
The case also offers a rare behind-the-curtain glimpse at the tactics of 21st century geopolitical intrigue, where it is increasingly common for deep-pocketed clients with political agendas to pay firms with government contacts and cyber know-how to obtain people’s sensitive private information — and then use it to destroy them."
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More on Guo Wengui
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/magazine/the-mystery-of-the-exiled-billionaire-whistleblower.html
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And more on the Bannon-Guo Wengui connection
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fundraising-at-company-tied-to-steve-bannon-and-guo-wengui-faces-probe-11597857467?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/oxAjRJ0llL
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like his outside is turning into what he is inside. At this rate in a couple of years he's gonna end up like.......
Stephen K. Bannon and Guo Wengui, who is also known as Miles Kwok.
...."Mr. Bannon was arrested early Thursday on a $35 million, 150-foot yacht that was off the coast of Westbrook, Conn., law enforcement officials said. Working with the Coast Guard, federal postal inspectors and special agents from Ms. Strauss’s office boarded the vessel, which belonged to the exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, the officials said."
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(Bannon has certainly been living the high life on someone else's dime and abusing phony "non-profits " I hope this latest turn events will stymie his efforts to purchase that beautiful monastery in Northern Italy and turn it into a neofascist "think tank."
And why fking not.
This crap is going on while human beings die from a Pandemic...no wonder Trump ignored it.
Keeps us all preoccupied while he pilfers the US treasury dry for his mobsters.
And that the Chinese government had hacked the communications system on his yacht! You can't make this stuff up!
until he found out he was a member of Mar-a-lago!
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/trump-decides-not-to-deport-dissident-after-learning-hes-a-mar-a-lago-member/amp
"Donald Trump's presidency has often resembled the reality television world from which he emerged. When it was time to nominate a Supreme Court justice, he flew the two finalists to Washington to build suspense. He has treated monumental decisions on such questions as whether to certify the Iran nuclear framework or who should lead the Federal Reserve with all the seriousness of a Bachelorette promo. But few of his escapades have been as screen-worthy as one starring Guo Wengui, a billionaire Chinese dissident dubbed the “Che Guevara of Chinese crony capitalism,” a cohort of Chinese officials who infiltrated Trump’s New York penthouse using a fluffed set of visas and a letter from the Chinese government, hand-delivered to the president by Republican National Committee finance chairman Steve Wynn, a casino tycoon with links to the Chinese-controlled gambling haven Macau.
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Then in June, Trump gathered his top aides, including Vice President Mike Pence, Jared Kushner, and former chief strategist Steve Bannon, for an Oval Office meeting about Chinese foreign policy. Briefed on Beijing’s alleged efforts to steal cutting-edge research from labs and trade secrets from U.S. companies, Trump reportedly said that he knew of at least one “Chinese criminal” that America needed to deport immediately. “Where’s the letter that Steve brought?” he asked his secretary. “We need to get this criminal out of the country.” Aides apparently thought Trump was talking about a Chinese national in trouble with U.S. law enforcement agencies, but he was actually referring to a letter that Wynn, whose multi-billion-dollar gambling properties in Macau must be approved annually by Chinese authorities, had given him at a private dinner. (A spokesperson for Wynn told the Journal that its reporting was false, but did not offer any comment. The White House also declined to comment.)
Despite Wynn’s flagrant conflict of interest, Trump was reportedly considering deporting Guo until aides talked him out of it—including informing him that Guo happens to be a member of his Mar-a-Lago resort (a privilege that costs $200,000 in initiation fees plus $14,000 in annual dues). The president subsequently changed his mind, exposing a secondary set of even more problematic biases. Apparently, Trump was more than happy to allow a wealthy friend to pressure him on foreign policy—until he was made aware of an even more pressing concern, that is. In the White House, personal relationships always seem to trump politics. But business, and family, come first."
