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The Chinese businessman convicted of fraud in the United States last year said that he and his colleague in the detainee Sean Combs discussed the creation of an artificial intelligence platform together when they were released from prison.

He was also known as Quh Winjwe and Hau Wan Cook, Condemn From the crimes of blackmail, fraud, and money laundering for more than a year, after a jury in Manhattan found that he had made a billion dollars in his followers online.

Before convicted, the Communist Party and its alliance with Donald Trump and the popular political strategy Steve Bannon criticized Steve Bannon. Prosecutors said that he funded a luxurious lifestyle through investment fraud. Bannon was arrested on charges of fraud in 2020 while he was on a yacht. (Bannon was later pardoned by Trump, but he was later accused of a separate fraud case in the state court.)

Combs He was convicted In July, the statements between states of state workers to participate in the “amazing” parties. It is scheduled to be sentenced to the Federal Court of Manhattan on Friday.

GUO wrote a letter to Arun Subramanian, New York Judge who supervised the Combs trial, ahead of rapper and businessman in the ruling. He said he hoped to “come out” compass from prison. He is scheduled to be ruled by Qouh himself in January 2026, after his repeatedly delayed sessions were delayed.

Qouh Al -Qadi told that he and mothers “sleep directly from each other” in the Federal Prison in Brooklyn, where they were placed together for “about 200 days.” GUO said he had multiple conversations with Combs, describing him as “a very nice person, sensitive, genius.”

Qouh said in the letter: He did not specify the details of the proposal, but he said that he was “not only to work but to obtain emotional support.”

Qouh said that he met many celebrities and many “not an organization”, but the rain was organized very well while providing a self -assistance course for their colleagues in prisoners “free game with Didi”.

Comles has been held in Brooklyn’s prison since his arrest in September 2024 and was charged with the trafficking case. The judge has asked a 14 -month prison sentence, which, if granted, will allow him to be released before the end of the year with the time of the time. Prosecutors are looking for a 11 -year prison sentence.

The Combps trial included weeks of graphic certificate, including from his ex -girlfriend, Cassi Ventura, who said her relationship with the music pole was violent and abusive.

The message from Guo is one of the dozens of messages presented by the attorneys of the Compass to the judge before the verdict of the verdict.

The public prosecutors also presented letters to the judge, including one of Ventura, in which “will strike me”, I would have, Stomb on my face, pulling my hair, throwing my body on the ground and against the wall. ” She said that the sentence should reflect “the force that it took for the victims of Sean Compos for progress.”