Unequal Before The Law: Madoff and Wolf of Wall Street Are Granted Bail While Guo Wengui Languishes In DOJ Gulag

The Eighth Amendment guarantees the right to reasonable bail, and New York’s 2019 “bail reform” law drastically lowered the standards of bail to the point where it regularly resulted in headline-making cases of violent criminals being let out without bail.

But only with Guo, who is falsely accused of a non-violent white collar crime, is there supposedly a need for bail.

Guo also is being denied the right to counsel in the sixth amendment, which is impairing his ability to provide a defense. The Warden of MDC Brooklyn placed it on definite lockdown on March 24, 2023, and inmates are only given 20 minutes out of their cell, and they face restricted access to the internet and communication with the outside world.

Guo’s legal counsel has had trouble communicating with him as a result. When they’re allowed to visit him, their attorney-client privileged communications are to be in a large open room with other inmates and prison staff, which is not acceptable. This further impairs his case, and if the past is any indication of the present, none of this is by accident.

That Guo hasn’t been granted bail the day of his arrest is a scandal in and of itself – and he’s not the only one. Guo’s close ally and supporter Yvette Wang was arrested on the same day as him – and given a sort of “bail in name only” where she was given a $5 million bond with a set of Kafkaesque conditions that are logically impossible to fulfill.

Guo, like any other individual accused of a crime, has the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty and to be granted bail, and there is no legal precedent to deny it. Denying him bail would not only be a violation of his rights but would also set a dangerous new precedent for the U.S. justice system, revealing a clear double standard where politics takes precedence over the law. Given the web of shadowy CCP actors that have impacted the process so far, any attempt to manipulate or infiltrate the U.S. justice system by a foreign power must be exposed and prevented, to ensure that justice is served fairly and equally for all.