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Church of Scientology is sued for $1 billion

Title: Church of Scientology is sued for $1 billion
Date: Friday, 2 January 1987
Publisher: New York Times
Main source: query.nytimes.com

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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1 — More than 400 current and former members of the Church of Scientology have filed a $1 billion lawsuit against the church, accusing it of trying to compromise or pay off two Florida judges and siphon $100 million to foreign bank accounts. The suit, filed Wednesday by Lawrence Levy, a lawyer, contends that church officials or their representatives committed fraud and breached fiduciary duties. It says information obtained in purportedly confidential auditing sessions with a lie detector-like ... [Read the rest at query.nytimes.com]