Authorities are trying to determine if the fire at Gue Wengui’s palatial Manhattan apartment at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel, which sources said was also wired for sound, was started remotely …
Guo, a controversial figure whose real name is Ho Wan Kwok, also had the 18th-floor luxury apartment overlooking Central Park wired for sound to record his visitors, the sources said.
The fire broke out Wednesday as FBI agents were still searching it, after charging Guo with running a billion-dollar fraud scheme and feeding his lavish lifestyle with the proceeds. Guo, a Chinese exile and pal of former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, is charged with running a lucrative fraud scheme and using the ill-gotten gains to buy a $26.5 million New Jersey mansion, a $37 million yacht and splurging on $36,000 mattresses a $140,000 piano, according to federal prosecutors.
“No one knew him, and he definitely would not have gotten in without that letter,” the source said. “It gave him a lot of standing he might not have had without that letter.”
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