Steve Bannon’s Former Business Partner Guo Wengui Was Arrested and Then His $32.5 Million Apartment Caught on Fire

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SCANNELL: "Well, Jake, the way that prosecutors described this in a charging document was a complex scheme. He used multiple different ways to try to attract these followers of his through his media company GTV, and also using a cryptocurrency exchange he created to attract money from investors, and then prosecutors say that he diverted a lot of those funds into paying for the maintenance of this luxury yacht called 'The Lady Mae' -- that is the same yacht where Steve Bannon was arrested in 2020, and then Trump later pardoned him on those charges -- but to pay the maintenance of that yacht, to buy a mansion in New Jersey, to cover -- to buy numerous luxury sports cars, and to also use the money to spend $36,000 on a mattress. It's really just this list of luxury products that he spent the money on, according to prosecutors. Now, when the FBI was in his apartment at his hotel apartment residence on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan earlier today, a fire broke out in the apartment which takes up the entire 18th floor. No one was injured and it's unclear whether there was any connection or just a coincidence. Gou Wengui has not appeared in court yet today, though he is expected to. His lawyer did not have any immediate comment on these sweeping charges, but prosecutors are expected to ask that he'd be detained and held because they say he's not only an extreme flight risk, but also an economic danger to society.”

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