They’re funded by CIA cutouts / state department proxies like the NED (Freedom House, Friends of Falun Gong). Friends of Falun Gong directly funds things like Epoch Times.

The good old days of 1999 the WSJ reported Chinese Spiritual Leader Finds American Dream in New Jersey

Falun Dafa founder Li Hongzhi’s wife got her piece of the American dream in a New Jersey suburb earlier this year, though Mr. Li says it was paid for by a follower as a gift that was later returned. The imposing 4,600-square-foot manse near Princeton University was purchased in the name of Mr. Li’s wife, Li Rui, in May, just three weeks after more than 10,000 of Mr. Li’s followers surrounded China’s leadership compound to petition for official recognition.

Both Mr. Li and Mr. Sun said Mr. Li’s wife doesn’t read or speak English, and she couldn’t be reached for comment. The men said Mr. Li refused the gift and has never lived in the house. Mr. Sun said the title was transferred to his name in mid-July, though county records listed Mrs. Li as the owner of the house in August. Mr. Sun said he plans to live in the house, though his wife, reached at the Suns’ home in New York City’s Staten Island, said she doesn’t know of any New Jersey house owned by her husband.

Mr. Li, who lives in the U.S., said through an intermediary that the New Jersey home was purchased for him without his knowledge by one of his most ardent followers, a lampshade manufacturer named John Sun. And Mr. Sun confirmed that he paid $580,000 for the house out of gratitude “for the great health benefit that I have obtained through practicing Falun Gong.” He said the purchase was made while Mr. Li was traveling and that he had Mrs. Li sign the paperwork without telling her what it was for.

Nonetheless, the real-estate transaction occurred when Mr. Li was battling an unprecedented national campaign by China to discredit him.

“Mystery Family”

There have been extensive renovations made to the New Jersey house since May. Two satellite television dishes have been installed on the roof and the driveway’s macadam has been stamped and painted to look like red paving bricks. Contractors this month put the finishing touches on a $24,000 gunite swimming pool in the backyard. New cars glide in and out of the three-car garage and a teenage girl has been seen playing outside. In August, one of Mr. Li’s closest associates was also seen at the home. Neighbors say they know nothing of the people living there. “They’re the mystery family in this neighborhood,” says a housewife who lives nearby.

Mr. Sun has helped Mr. Li before. In February 1998, fellow practitioners say Mr. Sun picked up the $35,000 tab at New York’s Jacob Javitz center where Mr. Li’s followers held the first U.S. Falun Dafa Convention – a conference of believers at which Mr. Li’s books and video tapes were sold. And Mr. Sun’s Staten Island address is the registered address for the Eastern U.S. Buddha’s Study (Falun Dafa) Association, a nonprofit organization that followers say isn’t active.

A Poster for Good Luck

He moved initially to an apartment in New York City’s Flushing, Queens, rented for him by a group of followers there. And in June 1998 his wife bought a residence in a quiet Queens neighborhood for $293,500, according to Queens County records. A red Chinese poster signifying good luck is pasted on the door of the blond-brick townhouse. Mr. Li acknowledges that the home is his.

Some rich American follower buying a gift home for close to 1 million, both sides can’t get their story straight, neighbours don’t even know who lives there. But specialy egregious(bolded) is the non-English speaking wife apparently dishing out 300k to buy a house in the US.