Feds Accuse Conservative Newspaper Tied to Falun Gong, the Epoch Times, in Multimillion-Dollar Money Laundering Scheme

Members of the company’s ‘Make Money Online’ team allegedly funneled cash to the company’s accounts via cryptocurrency and prepaid debit cards.

AP/Mark Lennihan
Plastic newspaper racks for The Epoch Times, The Village Voice and other newspapers stand along a Manhattan sidewalk, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013 at New York. AP/Mark Lennihan

The chief financial officer of a conservative newspaper, the Epoch Times, was indicted Monday, charged with participating in a scheme to launder at least $67 million in proceeds from unemployment fraud and other criminal schemes via the paper’s parent company.

Between 2020 and May of 2024, the CFO, Bill Guan, is alleged to have conspired in a transnational scheme to launder money through bank accounts associated with the Epoch Times.

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