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Thousands turn out for Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: whyaretheydead.info , link
May 11, 1997
Battlefield Tilden — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mike Wilson Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) TILDEN, NEB. — In a no-stoplight town on the American plain, in a house where the King James Version lies open in the entryway, a woman unfolds her newspaper and begins to read. The headline in the Tilden Citizen announces, "New Park Groundbreaking Ceremony Held." A picture shows 13 people posed shoulder to shoulder, their grins as frozen as the February soil. The mayor, a construction foreman on his afternoon break, has the familiar job of holding the shovel. A banner ...
Feb 26, 1997
Scientology reporters target police on race — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Oct 20, 1995
Woman accuses Scientology guard of threat — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jane Meinhardt Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — A Mexican woman has alleged that the Church of Scientology's security chief chased her and threatened to kill her for leaving the church. The case has been referred to the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office; no charge has been filed. A statement from a Scientology spokesman said the security guard has been suspended during a church investigation. The police investigation began Sept. 28 after Naxilly Sofia Perez-Morales, 22, called 911 about 7 p.m. from the Post Office on Cleveland Street. ...
Apr 1, 1994
Chief of police fires warning at Scientologist — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ned Seaton Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Police Chief Sid Klein is warning a prominent Church of Scientology official not to interfere in a police investigation again. Richard Haworth, Scientology's spokesman in Clearwater, could have been booked into the county jail March 24 for obstructing an investigation into an alleged battery of a Scientologist that night, Klein said Thursday in a letter. Haworth was not charged only because of the "training, patience and professionalism" of a police officer involved in the incident, Klein said. According to a police ...
Jan 26, 1994
Scientology, county settle tax suits — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Oct 14, 1993
Ruling may doom Pinellas tax suit against Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Wayne Garcia Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The IRS' exemption of the Church of Scientology may doom the county's effort to collect a tax bill exceeding $7.9-million. CLEARWATER — Pinellas County's property tax lawsuit against the Church of Scientology is badly wounded by an Internal Revenue Service ruling that exempts the organization from federal income taxes, Property Appraiser Jim Smith said Wednesday. The two sides are headed back to mediation that likely will result in many, if not all, of the Scientology properties being removed from the property ...
Jun 29, 1992
Suit against Cazares rejected — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Curtis Krueger Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) A judge has dismissed a lawsuit by two Scientologists who claimed former Pinellas Democratic Chairman Gabe Cazares violated Florida's hate crimes law by ejecting them from a meeting. Cazares said the outcome showed that "their tactic of trying to silence their critics and enemies by threats of suits under the hate crimes law is a tactic that will not work." However, Paul Johnson, the attorney who represented the two Scientologists, intends to file an amended version of the lawsuit next week, ...
Jan 4, 1992
Former Scientology member sues church — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Aug 27, 1991
Scientology plan called tax avoidance — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Sep 18, 1990
Scientology loses round on taxes — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 22, 1990
IRS is seeking church's records — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link
Aug 23, 1989
Scientology files can be opened, magistrate rules — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) TAMPA — In a forceful pronouncement of press and public rights, a federal magistrate has recommended that four sealed Church of Scientology case files be opened. Scientology lawyer Paul Johnson said the church "respectfully disagrees" with U.S. Magistrate Paul Game Jr.'s report, and will ask a federal judge to review the magistrate's findings. Until a federal judge rules, the files will be sealed, Johnson said. Game's ruling was released Aug. 15 and received by the St Petersburg Times on Tuesday. U.S. ...
Aug 18, 1989
Scientology complaints resurface — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Curtis Krueger Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — Complaints about the Church at Scientology unexpectedly surfaced again before the City Commission on Thursday, and some commissioners think they've heard enough. The commissioners two weeks ago presided over a stormy session in which a group of people spoke against the Scientologists, claiming the organisation is a cult. Scientologists denied those claims, and said they were offended by what they called attacks on their religion. On Thursday, commissioners heard a dialogue that was shorter, but similar. A Tampa couple, ...
Jul 21, 1989
Church demands pay-back / Scientology seeks fine, jail for gag-order violation — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link
Jul 14, 1989
Judge holds up Scientology auction // Court to decide whether church has to pay taxes — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Teresa Burney Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — A judge has decided to stop the auction of Church of Scientology property until a court can decide whether the church has to pay the taxes. The church and the Pinellas County property appraiser have disagreed for years about whether the church, which has its spiritual headquarters in Clearwater, must pay taxes on the property it owns in the county. The property appraiser's office has sent the church tax bills every year and the church has refused to pay ...
Jul 6, 1989
Scientology faces new charges of harassment — Newkirk Herald Journal (Oklahoma)More: link
Jun 15, 1989
Church of Scientology argues for keeping court files sealed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) TAMPA — A newspaper waited too long before asking a judge to open court files that were sealed more than two years ago, attorneys for the Church of Scientology argued Wednesday. "It's unprecedented, this kind of wait," said new York lawyer Michael Lee Hertzberg. He was referring to the 26 months that went by after U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich sealed four lawsuits that were settled with the church in 1986. But at a hearing before federal magistrate Paul Game ...
Jun 13, 1989
Scientology buildings may be auctioned — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Seattle lawyer Walter D. Palmer says it was strictly "a business decision." But a result of an investment he made with business associate John G. Ritchie could result in a forced sale of Church of Scientology buildings in downtown Clearwater. And holding the auction for the men would be the Pinellas County government. Scientology lawyer Paul B. Johnson said he will seek an injunction to stop the sale. The proposed auction, which Palmer suggested two weeks ago, relates to Scientology's annual ...
Jun 2, 1989
Judge removes himself from Scientology case — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) A Pinellas judge presiding over a Scientology tax dispute has removed himself from the case because of a newspaper report that cited a real estate transaction between the judge and the Church of Scientology. The St. Petersburg Times reported in December that Circuit Judge Howard P. Rives, who was presiding over a lawsuit concerning taxes on Scientology properties, sold one of those properties to the church in 1979. Rives said in December that there was no conflict in his role because ...
May 6, 1989
Magistrate to hear Scientology case — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 6, 1989
Lawyer wants Scientology link kept out of trial — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Dec 24, 1988
Tax suits involve land sold by judge / Rives says he'll step aside in Scientologists' case — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 22, 1988
Scientology church faces new claims of harassment — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: scientology-lies.com , pqasb.pqarchiver.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The year was 1976, one year after the Church of Scientology had secretly moved its spiritual headquarters to Clearwater, and Mayor Gabe Cazares was complaining too loudly for the church's comfort. So, as documents seized by the FBI would later show, the church's Clearwater office devised a scheme to "ruin Mayor Gabriel Cazares' political career by spreading scandal about his sex life." Church officials came up with ways to get Cazares' school records, birth records, anything — from checking with the ...
Aug 31, 1988
Measles outbreak traced to Clearwater private school — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul L. McGorrian Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — The outbreak of measles reported by county health officials this week has been traced to the True School, a private school in Clearwater that uses the teachings of L. Run Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology. A Health Department official said Tuesday that 40 of the 100 students at the school had not been immunized. But Sherry Payson, a spokeswoman for the school, said she thinks the figure is lower. She said neither the school nor Scientology discourages ...
Jul 30, 1987
Court ruling could affect local Scientology case — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Feb 13, 1987
Scientology circus could lead to citation — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: groups.google.com
Sep 23, 1986
Court may disbar lawyer linked to Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jun 28, 1985
Scientologists picket court over freedom issue — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Myrna Oliver Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) About 400 members of the Church of Scientology's Crusade for Religious Freedom picketed the Los Angeles County Courthouse on Thursday, protesting what they consider to be court infringement on their constitutional right to religious freedom. In a unique courthouse scene, more than half the group lined a hallway five deep on each side outside the courtroom of Judge Paul G. Breckenridge Jr. during a hearing on former Scientologist Gerald Armstrong's $60-million fraud suit against the church. The disparate group, which included ...
Aug 10, 1984
Affidavit of Michael J. Flynn
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