Bannon has emerged as one of the biggest champions of businessman Guo Wengui, who casts himself as an anti-communist dissident, even as other critics of the Chinese government have grown skeptical of his claims.
In 2018, Bannon invited Hudson Institute scholar Michael Pillsbury to dine with him and Guo in a suite at the Hay-Adams.
In August 2018, Bannon signed a one-year deal to consult for Guo Media, owned by a company incorporated in Delaware, for $1 million. Bannon’s contractBannon was also given an office at Guo Media’s New York headquarters, which was co-located with Guo’s offices for other business interests in the United States, Gong said in a deposition for a lawsuit related to a Guo business dispute.
But she said she was growing concerned that the Chinese businessman had not been honest about his personal and business history.She said she got involved with the group to try to guide and protect Bannon from getting into trouble. Guo said the organization was formed “to help Chinese people stand up to the criminal regime of the CCP and educate the Western world on how truly evil the CCP is.” He said that he has supported the project financially and remains committed to doing so.
Jiamei Lu, a Chinese American pastry chef and Web designer living in Hawaii, said she and her mother, visiting from China, became entranced as they watched Guo online.Lu said she briefly got a job at GTV, working for one week as a web designer before being terminated as result of disputes with Guo. She went on to send a total of $40,000 of her mother’s pension savings from China to a Guo associate, thinking she was investing in the new company.
But his father, he said, has become a Guo devotee. “He can’t fall asleep without listening to Guo first,” he said of his father. He described Lu as a disgruntled former employee. She said her complaints were unrelated to her employment, noting that after it ended she continued to volunteer for Guo and invested additional money.
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