According to documents filed with the federal court in february, an indicted Chinese man pumped millions in ill-gotten money into the accounts of some influential figures within MAGA World. This included former Trump aides Steve Bannon & Jason Miller.

The materials are an attempt by the court appointed trustee in the bankruptcy of Guo Wengui – the self-styled millionaire and anti Chinese Communist Party crusader – to recover money Guo is alleged to have transferred as part a “fraudulent plan” to conceal wealth from his creditors.

Guo has been funding Bannon’s and Miller’s post White House endeavors for years, even as critics accuse him of being a double agent working on behalf of Beijing. The feds also claim that he stole more than $1 billion dollars from China’s diaspora.

Guo denied these claims and claimed to be the victim of elaborate conspiracy theories.

The trustee is aiming to recover $21 million from Gettr, a troubled Twitter-alternative Guo and Miller launched in 2021.

The legal filing states that “the debtor orchestrated a shell game” for years. He used a complex web of shell corporations, nominally controlled by his family and subordinates but actually owned by him. The debtor transferred $21,000,000 through Hamilton Opportunity Fund SPC, his alter-ego shell corporation.

The trustee used the same language in hundreds of filings, only changing the names of the defendants and the amounts of money. The defendants include large corporations such as FedEx, American Express and other well-known companies. Others are obscure corporations based in countries like the United Kingdom or the Cayman islands, Italy, Japan and Hong Kong.

All the same, Guo allegedly gave money to those parties that belonged to his lenders, his victims and the New York court which slapped $134 million on him for contempt.

These materials reveal Guo’s close relationship with key figures on the American right. The documents show that Bannon Strategic Advisors – the longtime consulting firm of the former White House strategist – received $850,000 in payments from Guo’s two companies just a few months before Guo filed for bankruptcy. Bannon’s spokesperson did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Miller received personally $353,269.23 in Guo’s favor, while his former company Jamestown Associates which worked for the Trump campaign from 2016 to 2020 received $104,691.25. Fox News received $264.113.25.

Miller claimed that his compensation package as GETTR CEO included the money he received.

Miller stated in a press release that “this is ridiculous”. “All monies I earned as GETTR’s CEO were specified in my contract, and they were for services rendered. We will oppose this witch-hunt.”

The Daily Beast received text messages from the long-time Trump advisor who claimed that Jamestown created Gettr ads that Fox broadcasted.

Miller explained the payment by writing, “All services provided are well documented.” “It’s quite ridiculous.”

The Daily Beast’s requests for comments were not answered by Fox or Jamestown. Gettr, the company Miller left to support his comeback attempt last year, did not respond either.

The trustee is also seeking to recover $300,000 from a Guo led NGO that paid Washington Times columnist Bill Gertz’s nonprofit The Gertz File Investigative Reporting Project. This organization pays Gertz’s and his wife’s salaries. Gertz and Bannon were involved in the founding of the Rule of Law Foundation, and its sister organization the Rule of Law Society in 2018. Since then, the Department of Justice has identified Gettr and both groups as being part of a criminal conspiracy in which Guo is alleged to have enriched himself by stealing from anti-Communists activists.

In 2019, the revelation that Gertz accepted a $100,000 Loan from a Guo Associate cost him his Job at The Washington Free Beacon. Gertz didn’t respond to questions posed by The Daily Beast. The Washington Times press account did not respond to repeated emails.

In a January draft, the trustee had identified Donald Trump Jr. as a potential target of subpoenas.