Chief Financial Officer Of Multinational Media Company Charged With Participating In Scheme To Launder At Least $67 Million In Fraud Proceeds
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Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Jonathan Mellone, the Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Region of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General (“DOL-OIG”); and Andrew Wroblewski, the Assistant Director of the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service (“DSS”) Domestic Operations, announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging WEIDONG GUAN, a/k/a “Bill Guan,” the Chief Financial Officer of a multinational media company headquartered in New York City with participating in a transnational scheme to launder at least approximately $67 million of illegally obtained funds to benefit himself and the media company.
  • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    Lol. When you're supposed to be spreading propaganda for the CIA and destabilizing China but really you're just pocketing most of the money and running various scams instead and they finally notice.

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    Huh. Surprised they cracked down on them, I would've thought this is chump change to the feds and they would just let it slide.

  • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    Probably way more than the 67 million, and this guy just got the scapegoat job. The fact that they didn't even give him their lawyers on retainer initially and he was assigned a public defender is both hilarious and very telling.

    I can't imagine there is a single person at Epoch Times that is innocent. Maybe the janitors.

  • Weyland@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    They'll likely scrap it for parts and reassign people to whatever new anti-China media channels they come up with.

    It's very telling that this got dropped after Trump's case.