Ex-Epoch Times CFO pleads guilty in $67M multinational money laundering scheme

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dlcarrier•10 minutes ago

    But when the judge asked him if he was pleading guilty, he responded: “I feel like I’m guilty.”

    Marrero told him it was not a question of what he felt, but whether he was guilty.

    “I’m guilty,” Guan responded.

That reads a lot like someone innocent taking a plea bargain, because it's cheaper and lower risk than pleading innocent.

In this case, it looks like the court wasn't questioning whether or not the funds he was handling were fraudulent, but whether or not he knew they were fraudulent, and that's much more subjective.

csb6•about 1 hour ago

There doesn't seem to be information on who else was involved in the scheme. Was the Falun Gong organization involved? Who were the people/organizations that he was laundering money for?

toomuchtodo•about 2 hours ago

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

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/media/1354021/dl