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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 ...
Jan 30, 2011
Scientology founder's tenets drive Pinellas title company, under fire for rapid document processing — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: Who's who in Nationwide Title Clearing
Type: Press
Author(s):
Susan Taylor Martin ,
Joe Childs Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) In 2009, a low-profile Pinellas County company drew unwelcome attention in a growing national controversy over home foreclosures. Employees of Nationwide Title Clearing, a leading processor of mortgage-related documents for banks, loan servicers and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., were under fire for signing paperwork as "vice president" of various banks although they actually worked for NTC. The assembly-line process in which workers scrawled their names or initials on hundreds of documents at a time — typically without reading them — ...
Nov 21, 2010
Scientology benefits when Miami dentist runs up patient bills — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: Church of Scientology's comment
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joe Childs ,
Thomas C. Tobin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) MIAMI — Rosa Hernandez remembers this about her dentist: He sure could close a deal. She and her husband, Mauricio, had gone to Dr. Rene Piedra with a host of concerns. She had sensitive gums and a paralyzing fear of dentists. He needed bonding. Piedra, dressed in a business suit instead of a dental coat, showed them computerized models of how he would fix their teeth. He offered them a discount because they came in together, and helped them with a ...
Aug 18, 2010
Russian scientologist faces extremism charges after forcing his staff to embrace the faith — Moscow Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tom Washington Source:
Moscow Times Prosecutors in Samara Region are taking a high-flying businessman to task for forcing his employees to go on scientology courses. The director of electronics company RosKabelSvyaz Lev Syrolev was threatening to sack faithless workers, but now faces charges for using extremist material. “These practices are illegal and violate laws on combating extremist activity, labour laws, as well as the constitution of Russia,” Prosecutors said in a press release. The Surgut city court considers the ideas of L Ron Hubbard, Scientology’s founder, ...
Jul 25, 2010
Scientologists charged with extremism — Moscow Times
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Moscow Times Prosecutors have opened a criminal case against a Scientology center in the town of Shchyolkovo, 13 kilometers northeast of Moscow, on charges of inciting hatred, punishable with up to five years in prison. Investigators have decided that documents and literature confiscated at the center promoted extremism, a law enforcement official told Interfax, without elaborating. The decision was based on expertise conducted by leading Russian linguistic institutions, including the Linguistics Institute at the Academy of Sciences, Interfax reported. In April, works by ...
Jan 23, 2010
Adams County software-firm owner charged in killing of ex-business partner — Denver Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeremy P. Meyer Source:
Denver Post A 58-year-old businessman and founder of an Adams County software company was arrested Friday on murder charges in a bizarre office shooting at the end of the year that left him injured and another man dead. Adams County District Attorney Don Quick filed charges against William Rex Fowler in the shooting death of 42-year-old Thomas Ciancio, his former business partner at Fowler Software Design. Investigators say Fowler shot Ciancio three times in the head with a 9mm Glock handgun when Ciancio ...
Jan 9, 2010
New Bound Brook councilman facing lawsuit against his business from former employees — MyCentralJersey.com
Nov 18, 2009
Polaris Media EMC asked to attend Scientology courses — Ozsoapbox
Type: Blog
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Ozsoapbox Since writing about the public connection between Scientology and Polaris Media Group a lot of accusations and claims have been thrown around as the discussion ran hot. There’s been a lot of claims made and from what I gather the revelation of the link, which up until only recently hasn’t been publicised with any concrete proof, has made a lot of people uncomfortable. Up until now I’ve been written off by Polaris EMC as spreading rumours, despite the fact that I ...
Oct 27, 2009
Scientologists convicted of fraud — BBC News
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BBC News A French court has convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud, but stopped short of banning the group from operating in France. Two branches of the group's operations and several of its leaders in France have been fined. The case came after complaints from two women, one of whom said she was manipulated into paying more than 20,000 euros (£18,100) in the 1990s. A Scientology spokesman told the BBC the verdict was "all bark and no bite". France regards Scientology as ...
Oct 26, 2009
My Billion Year Contract / Memoir of a former Scientologist (book) - Chapter 18 Business consultation — CNM Publishing
May 28, 2009
Scientology on trial in France: Can a religion be banned? — TIME Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bruce Crumley Source:
TIME Magazine As a fiercely secular nation, France has always had an awkward relationship with religious groups. Officials often find themselves struggling to strike the delicate balance between maintaining church-state separation and honoring the right of citizens to express their faith. But in the current case against the U.S.-based Church of Scientology, authorities have abandoned their usual attempts at fine-tuning religion's standing in French society — instead, they want to ban Scientology from France altogether. In a long-awaited trial that opened this week, ...
May 21, 2009
Software company's Scientology-loving handbook — Gawker
Type: Blog
Author(s):
Ryan Tate Source:
Gawker Two former executives have been waging a court battle against Diskeeper, alleging the software company's CEO, a Scientologist, practiced religious discrimination. As it turns out, they have documents intended to prove it. The company's former CIO and Automation Planning Officer failed to injoin Diskeeper from using the teachings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard in the administration of the company. Now the Burbank, California company is going for the legal jugular, seeking summary dismissal of the case. Amid this legal tussle, ...
Apr 18, 2009
An inspirational story — Examiner
Feb 20, 2009
La scientologie au golf — Le Nouvelliste (Mauricie, Quebec)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mathieu Lamothe ,
Marie-Eve Lafontaine Source:
Le Nouvelliste (Mauricie, Quebec) Mathieu Lamothe et Marie-Eve Lafontaine
Le Nouvelliste
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Des employés cadres dy club de golf Les Vieilles Forges auraient été invités à signer un contrat dont l'une des clauses leur demandait de respecter la politique administrative de l'Église de scientologie de Ron Hubbard
Photo: archives Le Nouvelliste - Ève Guillemette
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(Trois-Rivières) Un malaise important s'est installé au club de golf Les Vieilles Forges depuis que les employés ont appris qu'un des nouveaux propriétaires, Antonino Putorti, serait lié à l'Église de ...
Feb 19, 2009
Que se passe-t-il au club de golf Les vieilles Forges? — TVA Trois-Rivières (Quebec, Canada)More: Video
Jan 23, 2009
Devoir d'enquête: "La Scientologie: La secte démasquée" [Part 1] [Unofficial English translation] — RTBF 1 (Belgium)More: Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4
Jan 17, 2009
Godelman and Le Shay respond to Diskeeper’s motion to strike — realitybasedcommunity.net
Jan 14, 2009
Chicago dentist to settle forced Scientology, harassment case — Chicago TribuneMore: articles.chicagotribune.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
James P. Miller Source:
Chicago Tribune A Chicago dentist has agreed to pay $462,500 to settle federal allegations that he violated U.S. discrimination laws by sexually harassing workers and by forcing employees who wanted to keep their jobs to submit to indoctrination in the tenets of Scientology. The Chicago office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had filed a civil lawsuit against James L. Orrington in September 2007, asserting he had discriminated against 18 employees by subjecting them to sexual propositions, comments and improper touching. The suit ...
Dec 22, 2008
Scientology refuseniks sue over compulsory workplace courses / Diskeeper fights religious discrimination suit — The Register (UK)
Dec 20, 2008
Former CIO sues Diskeeper claims he was fired for not participating in Scientology training — realitybasedcommunity.net
Oct 15, 2008
Alexander Godelman, Marc Le Shay v. Diskeeper Corporation: Discriminatory discharge
Jun 6, 2008
Ala. woman cites Scientology in suit over job loss — Alabama NewsMore: al.com
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Alabama News BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Pinson woman claims in a discrimination lawsuit that she was fired by a Warrior dentist after she told the "Rick and Bubba" radio show that Scientology was part of her staff training. In a federal suit filed Tuesday, Cortnie L. Beasley claims Dr. Susan Wells required her to read a book by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology. Beasley says she's a Baptist. Wells' office said she had patients Friday was not ...
Jun 6, 2008
Woman says she was fired for publicly objecting to on-the-job Scientology teachings — Birmingham News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Val Walton Source:
Birmingham News A Pinson Baptist has sued a Warrior dentist, claiming she was fired from her job after she said on the "Rick and Bubba" morning show that Scientology was being forced upon her in the workplace. Cortnie L. Beasley contends in a federal lawsuit that on the first day she reported to work at Dr. Susan Wells' office she was taken to the office's basement and was required to read a book by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of ...
Feb 15, 2008
The faith business: Scientology in NZ — Sunday Star-Times
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Sunday Star-Times Accountant Andrew Yong was near his office in the Panmure shops in east Auckland when he met a man who would change his life. Andrew Wenborn was from the Church of Scientology, headquartered a few hundred metres away. An Australian on secondment from Sydney, Wenborn persuaded Yong to take a Scientology "stress test", using an electrical device called an "e-meter". Sure enough, Yong was stressed and his health poor, Wenborn told him, and Scientology could help. What's more, said Wenborn, he ...
Sep 26, 2007
Dental Hygiene — Chicagoist
Type: Press
Author(s):
Margaret Lyons Source:
Chicagoist The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against Dr. James Orrington, DDS, alleging religious and sexual harassment. The suit, filed on behalf of ten employees — 9 women and 1 man? 10 women? — claims the South Side dentist required employees to recite passages from Scientology literature before he'd give them their checks. Three employees were fired after they lodged a complaint with the EEOC in 2005, and another two were fired after they complained about the harassment. According ...
Sep 21, 2007
Southwest Side dentist accused of sexual, religious harassment — Daily SouthtownMore: icsahome.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mike Nolan Source:
Daily Southtown Feds: Workers propositioned, forced to learn about Scientology
A Southwest Side dentist sexually harassed female workers and forced them to recite Scientology formulas in order to get their paychecks, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday.
The EEOC sued Dr. James L. Orrington on behalf of 10 former female employees, including three who were fired by the doctor shortly after they lodged complaints with the commission, said Ann Henry, an EEOC lawyer. The dentist fired two others after they complained ...
Sep 12, 2007
City Dentist Gets Fine, Probation — Daily News Record
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Reynolds Source:
Daily News Record RICHMOND — The Virginia Board of Dentistry ruled Friday that a Harrisonburg dentist broke state regulations by allowing unlicensed assistants to sedate patients.
The board put Dr. Kathryn Biery on indefinite probation, for at least two years, ordered her to take continuing education classes and fined her $24,000, according to Leigh Kiczales, of the Virginia Department of Health Professions Administrative Proceedings Division.
The decision followed Biery’s admission on Thursday that she told unlicensed assistants to sedate children, sometimes calling the order ...
Aug 17, 2007
A bridge too far — Haaretz
Type: Press
Author(s):
Aviva Lori Source:
Haaretz Hollywood, Tel Aviv is right behind you: Artists, businesspeople and middle-class seekers are filling the classrooms of local Scientology centers, hoping to rid themselves of excess spiritual baggage. Opera singer Gaby Sade used to have a very short fuse. If someone cut him off, he was capable of getting out of the car and giving the offending driver more than a piece of his mind. If if did not come to blows, he would at least tell him, in choice language, ...
Jun 19, 2007
Lawsuit: Firm's training was front for Scientology — Daily Southtown
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Daily Southtown A former employee of a Southland telecommunications company claims the company's required training included courses "designed to indoctrinate employees" in Scientology, and when she objected to the religious aspects of the training she was fired. Margaret Warfield, of Montgomery, filed her religious discrimination lawsuit in federal court Monday against BTI Communications Group. According to the company's Web site, BTI Communications Group is a business telephone and communications technology company headquartered in Lemont, with branch offices in Santa Fe Springs and Sacramento, ...
Dec 4, 2006
Woman sues former employer for religious discrimination — Springfield Business JournalMore: groups.yahoo.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Matthew Wagner Source:
Springfield Business Journal A Springfield woman has alleged in a federal lawsuit that she was fired in 2004 from a Branson West company for refusing to convert to Scientology, the chosen religion of her boss and several co-workers. Brianne Shahan filed the suit against Richmond Monroe Group Inc. in U.S. District Court last month. Shahan claims her former employer violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by allegedly pressuring her to divorce her husband and become a Scientologist. According to its ...
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