Feds Claim Epoch Times Is a Giant Money Laundering Operation
Feds Claim Epoch Times Is a Giant Money Laundering Operation
The indictment alleges the conspiracy-fueled paper’s massive revenue growth in recent years was tied to the chief financial officer’s fraudulent “Make Money Online” team.
They did this, too:
The Epoch Times directed millions of dollars in advertising toward supporting President Donald Trump’s campaign and published dozens of articles parroting his lies about the election — resulting in huge growth to its audience and its coffers.
Not super surprising. I figured it was just the plaything of a couple rich Chinese expats. Never let a good slush fund go to waste, am I right?
actually it is vaguely surprising. They know how to launder money?
Not very well, it would appear.
I agree I am not sure how to do this with a business that isn't cash based. Pretty sure I could pull it off with say a restaurant or a barbershop or something that people use paper money for.
Also not sure how true this is but I heard from an accountant that if you run a legit cash business you are more likely to be audited compared to a money laundering scheme. Since a fake business can make itself look 100% statistically aligned with the models the IRS uses while a real business is much more likely to be slightly off.
Chinese laundry businesses have been around as long as Chinese in the Americas.
I always knew January 1st 1970 was a fucking lie
Ahhh a fellow dude of culture
What the hell is it? There’s a giant billboard in town that just says something like #1 trusted source and has some guys picture I don’t recognize and… that’s it.
It's part of the media wing of a cult. Shen Yun is another part of it that a lot of people are familiar with - they perform all over the place doing "ancient Chinese dance" (which was invented in the 1950s). Epoch Times is the "news" piece. It's all propaganda.
I did catch Shen Yun show once. I saw some dancing. What I have heard from everyone else is that my session was unusual and it's usually loaded with politics.
Also I have a friend who holds dual citizenship and she told me the PRC takes pics of Chinese ethnic people who attend the shows and refuses to let them come back to the China, so she has never gone.
It's such a weird situation.
They're very popular in right-wing circles. They also give away their paper for free in boxes on street corners, so people will just pick it up for something to read.
Every once in a while their lies will end up on my doorstep. Straight into the fucking trash.
Do you live in Denver or do they have those same billboards posted everywhere? I suppose it must work, if you're an idiot. So it does work...
They’re in other states as well, if not all.
I have seen those posters in every remotely urban area I have ever been to in the US.
Anyone who didn't know it was a Chinese owned propaganda factory was refusing to follow the money.
Its actually the opposite. Its a publication supporting the Falun Gong which the CCP vehemently hate.
I was too lazy to follow the money.
Do we have to follow it, like, all the way?
What exactly are you implying by Chinese owned? The epoch time has long been a tool of US foreign policy against China.
It's a tool of Falun Gong. Falun Gong doesn't like the Chinese government because of the crackdown on Falun Gong. That doesn't make it a friend or tool of the United States.
Falun Gong believes a bunch of untrue things, but China also doesn't allow free expression. They don't just crack down on cults. They crack down on any dissent.
No shit. It funnels money to a cult.
Now welcoming the feds to what everyone else has known for years now.
No shit, it's run by the Falun Gong, not exactly the bastion of free and unbiased reporting, lmao. How does anyone think they make money off a free newspaper dumped all over rural areas? xD
I've got bad news about other Falun Gong ventures such as Shen Yun, too, hahah.
Careful. You'll get labeled a Wumao for saying stuff like this too loudly.
Luckily, I dislike the CCP as much as I dislike the Falun Gong. Their invasion of privacy and treatment of Xinjiang and LGBTQ people is appalling. Not to mention the other regions they control, or the countries they try and coerce, like Taiwan or other nations in the South China Sea.
I'd love nothing more than to have Xi step down and get replaced by someone progressive and modern, in the western sense.
I got ads for them before I used Ublock Pretty sure I reported it for propaganda not that it did anything.
Were those the ads where they pretended they had video from raids where people were burning down their warehouses because of all the truth they tell but the videos were just poorly scripted and acted?
I wish I could just live in the real world. Still weirded out about that footage that came out of the Syrian civil war of people rehearsing running then falling to the ground dead.
Was it the "moderates" trying to get better coverage or was it Assad trying to convince us that the civilians dying weren't? Or hell was it just some movie being made and someone selectively edited and relabeled it to make it support a narrative? It's like inception layers of misinformation and I am revolted by it.
I cant remember exactly what it was about but the ad didn't have a video.
It was nearly 100% of my YouTube ads at one point then in one my many reports to YouTube I told them if I see another one I am going to Epoch Times physical address and will start screaming at them about the YouTube ads until I am dragged out of the building.
It stopped after that but I can't prove that is what stopped it. Was going to do it as well.