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Mar 5, 2011
Division at software company over Scientology apparent before 2009 shooting — Denver Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Monte Whaley Source:
Denver Post Fowler Software Design ran smoothly and profitably for years, even as the staff was divided between Scientologists and nonmembers of the controversial group. But a full-blown schism developed after employees learned that the company's founder — 59-year-old William Rex Fowler — gave as much as $250,000 of the firm's money to the Church of Scientology, according to witness statements given to investigators. Those conflicts were readily apparent after 42-year-old Thomas Ciancio, a non-Scientologist, was shot and killed by Fowler on Dec. ...
Feb 25, 2011
Rex Fowler Found Guilty Of First-Degree Murder — abc 7News DenverMore: thedenverchannel.com , 9news.com , denverpost.com , kwgn.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tyler Lopez Source:
abc 7News Denver DENVER — After just two hours of deliberation, an Adams County jury found Rex Fowler guilty of first-degree murder in the slaying of his former business partner. Fowler, 59, was immediately sentenced to life in prison. The fact that Fowler shot and killed Thomas Ciancio was never in dispute. What was in dispute was whether the act was deliberate and pre-planned. Prosecutors argued the fact that Ciancio was shot three times in the face could not be an accident — it ...
Feb 24, 2011
Fowler trial day 2: Ex-Fowler Software CEO tears up on stand // Rex Fowler on trial for killing Thomas Ciancio — Denver Channel (Colorado)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan Gathright Source:
Denver Channel (Colorado) BRIGHTON, Colo. – A software company founder is being tried for first-degree murder. Rex Fowler is accused of shooting and killing business partner Thomas Ciancio in December 2009. TheDenverChannel's Alan Gathright is in the courtroom and will be blogging throughout the trial. This is his blog on Day 2. 4:30 PM – The former president and CEO of Fowler Software choked back tears on the stand Thursday afternoon, recalling how she arranged the fateful meeting between Tom Ciancio and Rex Fowler ...
Feb 23, 2011
Fowler trial day 1: Fowler branded slaying victim 'extortionist,' DA says // Rex Fowler on trial for killing Thomas Ciancio — Denver Channel (Colorado)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan Gathright Source:
Denver Channel (Colorado) BRIGHTON, Colo. – The trial of a software company founder is underway in Brighton. Rex Fowler is accused of shooting and killing business partner Thomas Ciancio in December 2009. TheDenverChannel's Alan Gathright is in the courtroom and will be blogging throughout the trial. This is his blog on Day 1. 4:30 PM -Battle Over Scientology Evidence In a dramatic moment, defense attorney Sarah Quinn objected to prosecutors introducing in evidence a manila folder belonging to Fowler. The judge had the jury ...
Feb 22, 2011
Software firm founder faces murder trial // Judge: Defendant's Scientology ties irrelevant in ex-partner's slaying — Denver Channel (Colorado)
Type: TV
Author(s):
Alan Gathright Source:
Denver Channel (Colorado) BRIGHTON, Colo. – The murder trial starts Wednesday morning for an Adams County software firm founder accused in the 2009 execution-style shooting of his former business partner. William Rex Fowler is charged with first-degree murder. He's accused of shooting Thomas Ciancio, 42, three times in the head with a 9mm Glock handgun when Ciancio came to collect a $9,000 severance payment at Fowler Software Design in Adams County on Dec. 30, 2009. Fowler, 58, has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he ...
Feb 16, 2011
Judge: Scientology no issue in Fowler murder case — Denver Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Monte Whaley Source:
Denver Post BRIGHTON — The upcoming first-degree murder trial of an Adams County business owner with links to the Church of Scientology will be about the facts of the case and not the defendant's religion, the presiding judge said today. "Someone's religion has never been an issue in my courtroom and it won't be in this case," said Adams County District Judge Francis Wasserman. Wasserman spoke in a pre-trial hearing for 58-year-old William Rex Fowler, accused of shooting his former business partner on ...
Aug 17, 2010
A victim of savings measures // Hamburg to close down Scientology Task Force — Spiegel
Type: Press
Source:
Spiegel The city of Hamburg said this week it would suspend the work of its 17-year-old Scientology task force, one of the most vociferous critics of the secretive organization. Leader Ursula Caberta has successfully defended herself in numerous cases brought by Scientologists. However, the city says it will continue to monitor the group. From Berlin, Germany, to Clearwater, Florida, there are few people more disliked by the Church of Scientology than Ursula Caberta. For 17 years, Caberta has fought against Scientology in ...
Jun 13, 2010
Inside Scientology: No kids allowed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: Church of Scientology response , Church spokesman Tommy Davis' letter to the Times , Declarations from Scientology members
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joe Childs ,
Thomas C. Tobin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Laura Dieckman was just 12 when her parents let her leave home to work full time for Scientology's religious order, the Sea Organization. At 16, she married a co-worker. At 17, she was pregnant. She was excited to start a family, but she said Sea Org supervisors pressured her to have an abortion. She was back at work the following day. Claire Headley joined at 16, married at 17 and was pregnant at 19. She said Sea Org supervisors threatened strenuous ...
May 20, 2010
Software firm founder pleads not guilty in slaying of ex-partner — Denver Channel (Colorado)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan Gathright Source:
Denver Channel (Colorado) BRIGHTON, Colo. – An Adams County software firm founder accused in the execution-style shooting of his former business partner pleaded not guilty Thursday. William Rex Fowler is charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 30 slaying of Thomas Ciancio at their office, Fowler Software Design. The case has been marked by bizarre revelations ever since heavily armed SWAT officers surrounded the building near Federal Heights, unsure whether the "gunman" was barricaded inside. During the initial confusion, the 42-year-old Ciancio, the former ...
Apr 10, 2010
Adams County judge orders William Fowler to be tried for first-degree murder in ex-business partner's death — Denver Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Monte Whaley Source:
Denver Post BRIGHTON — William Rex Fowler lured his former business partner into a deadly trap last year, killing 42-year-old Thomas Ciancio over claims Fowler was embezzling money from the company he founded, an Adams County prosecutor said Friday. But the second half of Fowler's plan failed when the 58-year-old tried unsuccessfully to kill himself, prosecutor Dave Young said in a preliminary hearing. "His intent was suicide," Young said. "He was going to take care of his business before he took care of ...
Mar 15, 2010
Kirstie Alley diet scheme: Scientology front? — The Hollywood Reporter
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roger Friedman Source:
The Hollywood Reporter The blogs are alive with speculation that Kirstie Alley’s new diet scheme, called Organic Liaison, is a front for Scientology. It sure seems that way. Let’s not forget that Alley is a devoted member of the sect. She fronted a PR pamphlet for them in 2007 called “Keep Scientology Working.” You can see it at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/Kirstie/ Organic Liaison’s advisory board includes a prominent Scientologist named Michelle Seward. Seward is also the CEO of Protege Financial, a Scientology-based company. The two other ...
Feb 17, 2010
Judge: Medical records must be released in Adams office-slaying trial — Denver Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Monte Whaley Source:
Denver Post BRIGHTON — A district judge's ruling last week may aid prosecutors in their claim that William Rex Fowler was not defending himself when he shot to death his former business partner at an Adams County software company. Adams County District Judge Francis Wasserman ordered that all medical records concerning Fowler's treatment at Denver Health Medical Center be released to prosecutors. Fowler, 58, is accused of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Thomas Ciancio. Investigators say Fowler shot Ciancio, 42, three ...
Jan 24, 2010
He wants his money back from Church of Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: Larry Anderson's meeting with Tommy Davis , (transcript by Anonymous) , Scientologists and money
Jan 30, 2005
Englightenment's Dark Side — Buffalo News
Feb 17, 2000
Modus Operandi: Infiltration — Paris Match
Feb 25, 1999
Public service ads banned from buses — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 9, 1998
Church's complaints take buses off road — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas C. Tobin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Pinellas County's transit chief pulled 10 buses off the road Sunday after the Church of Scientology complained that the vehicles' side panels contained anti-Scientology advertising.
The ads were purchased by church critics and were to be on buses Saturday through Monday as part of a weekend-long protest against Scientology.
Each of the 11 ads carried a different message. Among them: "Think for Yourself. Quit Scientology," "Find out why so many people oppose Dianetics and Scientology" and "Why does Scientology lie to ...
Dec 1, 1998
Brainwashed! // Scholars of cults accuse each other of bad faith — Lingua Franca
Type: Press
Author(s):
Charlotte Allen Source:
Lingua Franca RUTGERS UNIVERSITY SOCIOLOGY professor Benjamin Zablocki has been studying cults–now called, thanks to academic political correctness, new religious movements, or NRMs–since his graduate school days at Johns Hopkins during the mid-1960s, when he bought a ninety-nine dollar Greyhound bus pass and traveled around the country visiting all the religious communes he could find. "My style of research is participant observation," he explains. "I live with the groups, wash dishes with them, pray with them, and immerse myself in their way of ...
May 9, 1997
When did she die? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas C. Tobin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — Was it an honest mistake, a slip of the tongue? Or was it the naked truth, carelessly uttered on camera A top official for the Church of Scientology told a German television crew recently that church member Lisa McPherson died in a room at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater. On its face, the statement marks a major change in Scientology's version of events surrounding McPherson's unexplained death at age 36. It came in the presence of one of ...
Mar 9, 1997
Scientology's puzzling journey from tax rebel to tax exempt // Taxes and tactics behind an I.R.S. reversal — New York TimesMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Douglas Frantz Source:
New York Times On Oct. 8, 1993, 10,000 cheering Scientologists thronged the Los Angeles Sports Arena to celebrate the most important milestone in the church's recent history: victory in its all-out war against the Internal Revenue Service. For 25 years, I.R.S. agents had branded Scientology a commercial enterprise and refused to give it the tax exemption granted to churches. The refusals had been upheld in every court. But that night the crowd learned of an astonishing turnaround. The I.R.S. had granted tax exemptions to ...
Jan 27, 1997
U.S. criticizes Germany on Scientology — Washington PostMore: highbeam.com
Aug 12, 1994
What's Scientology got to do with it? — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) WHY DID LISA Marie Presley and Michael Jackson get married? Love, if you believe her press release, the one pledging to "dedicate my life to being his wife." Or, according to speculation from Hollywood, Jackson is rehabbing his image and simultaneously consummating the ultimate entertainment empire merger. But another possibility is circulating among the conspiracy-minded former members of the Church of Scientology. It's an astounding theory — that the church itself helped arrange the Presley-Jackson union. But these defectors say that ...
Jan 23, 1988
1950's Dianetics still fuels controversy — Post-Tribune (Indiana)
Jun 11, 1981
Grand jury once more probes alleged Scientology plots — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Craig Roberton Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) TAMPA — A federal grand jury in Tampa is once again investigating alleged plots by the Church of Scientology to discredit former Clearwater Mayor Gabriel Cazares. Three members of the Church of Scientology testified for an hour and a half at the secret grand jury session in the federal courthouse in Tampa Wednesday afternoon. Cazares himself testified before the grand jury for more than an hour on Tuesday. Asked about his testimony, Cazares said he told the grand jurors about the ...
Church of Scientology International (CSI): Form 1023 filing More: PDF: Master index
Type: Document
[Transcription of the meaningful parts of the 1023 form as submitted by the Church of Scientology International to the IRS. For the complete document, see PDFs] [Coming soon]
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