Epoch Times CFO Bill Guan charged in alleged $67 million global money laundering scheme

[Jirel]

Source: MSNBC

The chief financial officer of conservative global news outlet The Epoch Times has been arrested and charged with leading a yearslong scheme to launder at least $67 million in illicit funds, federal prosecutors said Monday.

The “sprawling” scheme — which involved cryptocurrency, tens of thousands of prepaid debit cards, fraudulently obtained unemployment insurance benefits and stolen personal information — fueled a massive increase in The Epoch Times’ reported annual revenue, prosecutors alleged.

Weidong “Bill” Guan, 61, is charged in U.S. District Court in lower Manhattan with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and two counts of bank fraud.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/epoch-cfo-bill-guan-charged-alleged-67-million-global-money-laundering-rcna155321

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We can only hope the rest of the staff will soon be charged on related crimes.

[moreland01]

1. Our entire city

got a copy of this stupid, slanted, absurd newspaper on our driveways this spring (unsolicited!!!). Good riddance!

[barbaraann]

2. Epoch Times is affiliated with Falun Gong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times

[babylonsister]

4. The Epoch Times is absolute swill. From your link...

The Epoch Times has websites in 35 countries but is blocked in mainland China.[31]

The Epoch Times opposes the Chinese Communist Party,[32][33][22] platforms far-right politicians in Europe,[9][11][22] and has supported former President Donald Trump in the U.S.;[34][35] a 2019 report by NBC News showed it to be the second-largest funder of pro-Trump Facebook advertising after the Trump campaign itself.[30][36][22] The Epoch Times frequently runs stories promoting other Falun Gong-affiliated groups, such as the performing arts company Shen Yun.[34][24][37] The Epoch Media Group's news sites and YouTube channels have promoted conspiracy theories such as QAnon, anti-vaccine misinformation[41] and false claims of fraud in the 2020 United States presidential election.[44]

[barbaraann]

6. Yup.

Fascism and corruption go hand in hand.

[Roy Rolling]

11. "Absolute Swill"

I came to DU for the ideological camaraderie, I stay for the nouns. 😂

[lostnfound]

3. That's awesome!! Nt

[BumRushDaShow]

5. This and a bunch of other news stories today

explain why the theatrics of the Fauci hearing along with the attempt to do blowout coverage of the Hunter Biden trial and even the idiocy of Bill Maher declaring that Biden was "going to lose".

There was a SHITLOAD of stuff that just hit the RW loon universe's fan!

Money laundering

Jury tampering

Alex Jones about to be wiped out

Judge tampering

Witness tampering

[SunSeeker]

7. Criming for the cult. Yet another reason to not read Epoch Times. nt

[Wuddles440]

8. They have digital billboards...

all over the Cleveland metro area.

[yellowdogintexas]

9. DFW as well. I was getting emails from them; had no idea who/what they were

It did not take me long to figure it out.
Hopefully the billboards will soon have something else on them

[oasis]

10. Lock him up!

And I admit saying that.