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Guilty plea
During jury selection in his money laundering trial, Bill Guan pleads guilty to one count of conspiracy relating to illegal financial transactions.
Scheme begins
Guan and the “Make Money Online” team start using cryptocurrency to purchase stolen unemployment benefits and other crime proceeds, laundering funds through Epoch Times accounts.
Former Epoch Times CFO Bill Guan abruptly pleaded guilty mid-trial to a conspiracy charge in a $67 million money laundering scheme involving stolen unemployment benefits and cryptocurrency. The plea limits his exposure to 10 years, but the case exposes significant weaknesses in pandemic-era benefit programs and raises questions about corporate governance at the media organization.
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