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Feb 22, 1988
U.S. v. Kattar 840 F.2d 118
Jun 3, 1986
What's the scam? // Trying to bilk the Scientologists — Boston PhoenixMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jim Schuh Source:
Boston Phoenix Back on the morning of June 7, 1982, a man walked into the New York branch of the Middle East Bank on the 25th floor of a Madison Avenue office building and tried to deposit a $2 million check. The man, a native of the United Arab Emirates, left without completing the transaction. The check, written on an E.F. Hutton money-market account handled by the Bank of New England, was a forgery. Although attempted bank fraud of that ilk is not ...
May 29, 1986
$100G Scientology 'scam' // Feds charge 2 with Mob connections — Boston HeraldMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jim MacLaughlin Source:
Boston Herald A DISBARRED lawyer with Mob connections and a Methuen man linked to organized crime were arrested yesterday and charged with trying to bilk the Church of Scientology out of $100,000, said officials. The alleged scam netted Harvey Brower, 49, of Swampscott, and George T. Kattar, 67, of Methuen, $33,333 before they were arrested by FBI agents, said the US. Attorney's office. The two were indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston May 23 and charged with fraud, extortion and other ...
May 29, 1986
Ex-lawyer, N.H. man charged in plan to bilk Church of Scientology — Boston GlobeMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
William F. Doherty Source:
Boston Globe FBI agents yesterday arrested a New Hampshire man and a disbarred lawyer on charges of extorting $33,000 from the Church of Scientology by offering false information about a scheme to steal $2 million from the church. George T. Kattar, 67, of Meredith, N.H., formerly of Methuen, was held without bail pending a detention hearing tomorrow. Harvey Brower, 49, of Swampscott, a former lawyer turned writer, was released on $50,000 bail. According to an indictment issued by a federal grand jury in ...
Aug 10, 1984
Affidavit of Michael J. Flynn
Aug 2, 1984
Scientology leader renews fight over forged check — Tampa Tribune (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Mangum Source:
Tampa Tribune (Florida) CLEARWATER — Church of Scientology President Heber C. Jentzsch renewed charges involving a forged $2 million check and a "conspiracy" by sect foe Michael Flynn during a Wednesday press conference. Flynn, a Boston attorney, represents more than a dozen ex-Scientologists who have sued the sect. In May 1982 Flynn coordinated highly-publicized city hearings on Scientology. "Mr. Flynn was involved and is involved in acts that involve organized crime," Jentzsch told reporters and 50 supporters on the steps of Clearwater City Hall. ...
Jan 29, 1984
Lawyer sees smear campaign, slams sect — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jan 29, 1984
Sect keeps high profile in Boston — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
May 31, 1983
Scientology defectors charge 'dirty tricks' in Boston — Boston Globe
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ben Bradlee Jr. Source:
Boston Globe Robert Dardano and Warren Friske were trusted members of the Boston mission of the Church of Scientology in the mid-1970s when they say they were recruited to join a group of other church members intent on carrying out "dirty tricks" against critics and others deemed enemies of the church in this area. The activities of the group included break-ins, the theft of documents, harassment and misrepresentation, according to sworn testimony by Dardano in Florida last year and affidavits from him and ...
Mar 2, 1982
Clearwater to hire Boston lawyer for Scientology hearings — Clearwater Times (Florida)
Sep 1, 1981
Scientology: The sickness spreads — Reader's DigestMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Eugene H. Methvin Source:
Reader's Digest Eighteen months ago, the U.S.-based Church of Scientology launched a global—and unsuccessful—campaign to prevent publication of a Reader's Digest report called "Scientology: Anatomy of a Frightening Cult." The church engaged a detective agency to investigate the author, Digest Senior Editor Eugene H. Methvin. Digest offices in a half-dozen nations were picketed or bombarded with nuisance phone calls. In Denmark, South Africa and Australia, the church sued unsuccessfully to prevent publication. In the months since the article appeared, in May 1980, a ...
Mar 10, 1981
Suit charges Scientologist smear campaign — The Ledger (Florida)
Mar 5, 1980
Affidavit of Marjorie Hansen More: link
Type: Affidavit
AFFIDAVIT OF MARJORIE HANSEN I, Marjorie Hansen of Hanover, Massachusetts depose and state as follows: On or about April 16, 1978, I was walking on Boylston Street in Boston when I was approached by a man named Kevin, who asked me if I would consent to taking a "Personality Survey". Kevin stated that he was working on the survey for some college courses he was taking. He then led me to a building on Beacon Street which I later found out ...
Jan 15, 1980
Woman suing Church of Scientology says she was “brainwashed” — Boston Globe
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Langer Source:
Boston Globe A woman who was a member of the Church of Scientology for seven years and who has now filed a $200 million class action suit against the church, said of her experience that “it was a whole menagerie of lies.”
Lavenda Van Schaick, a 29-year-old native of Texas who joined the church in Las Vegas, recited a list of experiences that her attorney, Michael Flynn, said, can only be described as “Orweilian,” referring to George Orwell’s depiction of a future society ...
Nov 27, 1979
Scientology files: Scientologists sought to infiltrate Times — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
May 30, 1976
26 years of Scientology — Boston GlobeMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Michael Carlson Source:
Boston Globe "What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that you have lost everything. Nothing in Dianetics and Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation. That is all. Our aims are a civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights and where Man is free to rise to greater heights." L. Ron Hubbard ...
Apr 24, 1976
What can you do to fight crime? — Sun Chronicle (Attleboro, Massachusetts)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Oreste P. d'Arconte Source:
Sun Chronicle (Attleboro, Massachusetts) THE ATTLEBOROS — Several weeks ago a pair of canvassers stood in the area of the Attleboro Common and asked passersby what they thought they could do to help fight crime. They got, says Gerard Velona, exactly the kind of response they expected: "I don't know." Velona, a theology student from Brookline, heads a church of Scientology campaign designed to help reduce crime throughout the state. So far, Velona and his crew have visited about 40 communities. The results have been ...
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