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Jan 1, 1987
Scientologists sue church for $1-billion — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 30, 1986
Scientology verdict returned — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 6, 1986
Church of Scientology of California v. Gerald Armstrong: Mutual release of all claims and settlement agreement More: gerryarmstrong.org
Aug 22, 1986
Charges of scheme to bilk church of $2M take new twist — Lowell Sun (Massachusetts)More: link
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Raymond Howell Source:
Lowell Sun (Massachusetts) BOSTON — An international con artist has been charged in a scheme to bilk the controversial Church of Scientology out of $2 million, adding a new layer of intrigue to a Byzantine case that already involves a reputed organized crime figure, a disbarred lawyer and a financial swindler-turned-FBI-Informant. Ala Fadili Al Tamimi, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), was arraigned Tuesday in U.S. District Court in connection with the scam against L. Ron Hubbard, the late ...
Aug 17, 1986
Church of Scientology settles in multimillion-dollar civil suits — Orlando Sentinel
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Orlando Sentinel The Church of Scientology has reached out-of-court settlements in four multimillion-dollar civil suits, but details were ordered sealed by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Kovachevich. Settlements were reached with former Clearwater Mayor Gabe Cazares, a Democratic candidate for Congress; Tanja Burden of Las Vegas; Nancy McLean of Ontario, Canada; and Margery Wakefield, no address available. Tampa attorney Walt Logan, who represented plaintiffs in all four cases, said the files were sealed Thursday over our objections. The Cazareses sued the church for $1.5 ...
Aug 16, 1986
Cazares, 3 others settle suits against Scientologists — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Aug 1, 1986
Scientology investigated foe, lawyer says — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Jun 3, 1986
What's the scam? // Trying to bilk the Scientologists — Boston PhoenixMore: link
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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
Kattar jailed; prosecution says it fears for witnesses — Lawrence-Eagle-TribuneMore: link
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Lawrence-Eagle-Tribune BOSTON — George Kattar and Harvey Brower arrived in court together and sat side by side, but only Brower left the courtroom a free man after their arraignments yesterday. Kattar was led away by U.S. marshals and jailed after prosecutors said he threatened to kill a witness. The 67-year-old retired Methuen businessman was refused bail by U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Cohen. Brower, 49, of Swampscott, was released without bail. Kattar and Brower pleaded innocent in US. District Court to charges ...
May 29, 1986
Was church cheated or part of a larger plot? — Lawrence-Eagle-TribuneMore: link
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Paul Van Osdol Source:
Lawrence-Eagle-Tribune Four years ago, two men walked into a New York bank and tried to cash a $2 million check drawn on the Bank of New England account of L. Ron Hubbard, the head of the Church of Scientology. The bank refused to cash the check after it could not verify the signature. Since then, the church has been on the warpath to find out who forged their now-dead founder's check. It offered a $100,000 reward, bought full-page advertisements in the country's ...
May 20, 1986
High court rejects Scientology case — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Apr 4, 1986
Inside Scientology — Finally [The government's war against Scientology] — L.A. Weekly (California)More: link
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Ron Curran ,
Jennifer Pratt Source:
L.A. Weekly (California) The Government's War Against SCIENTOLOGY Scientologists say the church is engaged in "a war for the human spirit" against a global conspiracy, involving psychiatrists, the Rockefeller family, the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) and the U.S. government (including the FBI, CIA and IRS). According to Ken Hoden, Scientologists feel that although each of these diverse entities have different reasons for attacking the church, their enemies have banded together as one to achieve a common end — "destroying the Church of Scientology." ...
Apr 4, 1986
Inside Scientology — Finally [The minutement at the ready] — L.A. Weekly (California)More: link
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Ron Curran ,
Jennifer Pratt Source:
L.A. Weekly (California) The Minutemen at the Ready [A 'suppressive person' is] Fair Game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by a Scientologist without discipline of the Scientologist [sic]. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed. —L. Ron Hubbard [Picture / Caption: "Minutemen" line courthouse halls. ] On February 15, six police officers stood near the door of Leo Baeck Temple, awaiting the confrontation. They had been called by leaders of Freedom for All in Religion (FAIR), a group ...
Feb 5, 1986
Hubbard son's bid for an inquest is rejected — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Feb 1, 1986
Cash flowed from Hubbard's ranch — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)More: forums.whyweprotest.net , link
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Author(s):
Ronnie D. Smith Source:
Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) Creston — Actor Robert Mitchum once quartered horses at the Whispering Winds ranch, four miles South of Creston. Until last week, it was the closest this town of 270 people had come to celebrity. Last week Church of Scientology founder Lafayette Ronald Hubbard died here. Hubbard, a science fiction writer who turned a book he wrote called "Dianetics" into a church making $100 million a year, was both worshipped by Scientologists and condemned by those who fled the church, claiming to ...
Jan 31, 1986
Sect leaders lambaste suggestions of hoax — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jan 30, 1986
FBI prints confirm death of Scientology's Hubbard — Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)
Jan 30, 1986
Hubbard's body identity confirmed — Telegram-Tribune (San Luis Obispo County)
Jan 30, 1986
Hubbard's son planning to seek inquest, contest will — Los Angeles Times (California)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com , link
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Robert W. Welkos ,
Joel Sappell Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) A Boston attorney representing the estranged son of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard said Wednesday that he will request a coroner's inquest into the death of the reclusive multimillionaire and plans to contest the will Hubbard signed the day before he died. Michael Flynn, who represents Hubbard's eldest son, Ronald DeWolf, said he sent a letter Wednesday to the San Luis Obispo County coroner demanding an inquest into Hubbard's death from a stroke last Friday at age 74. In the letter, ...
Jan 30, 1986
Officials confirm Hubbard's death — Daily News
Jan 29, 1986
Confirmation of Hubbard's death sought — Daily NewsMore: link
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Author(s):
Ira Rifkin Source:
Daily News The San Luis Obispo County coroner attempted to independently confirm Tuesday that Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard has indeed died, while church critics voiced skepticism over the circumstances surrounding the death. Sheriff-Coroner George S. Whiting said his office was trying to verify Hubbard's death by checking fingerprints taken from what church officials said was Hubbard's body shortly before it was cremated Saturday. Whiting said he would take several days to match the prints with a copy known to be ...
Jan 29, 1986
Hubbard body fingerprints to be verified — Santa Barbara News-PressMore: link
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Santa Barbara News-Press SAN LUIS OBISPO (AP) — Coroner's investigators plan to verify the death of Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard by matching fingerprints taken from a body at a mortuary here. But the delayed announcement of the reclusive science fiction writer's death combined with a series of court battles against the wealthy church he founded prompted at least one opponent to claim the death reports may be a hoax. Church officials announced Monday night that Hubbard, 74, died of a stroke ...
Jan 29, 1986
Sect says founder Hubbard is dead — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Jan 29, 1986
Skeptics question Hubbard death — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jan 29, 1986
Will check of fingerprints verify dead man was L. Ron Hubbard? — Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)
Jan 22, 1986
Judge likely to allow suit by Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link , link
Nov 6, 1985
Secret Teachings: Papers Show Scientologists Blame Ancient Ruler for Many Human Ills — Post-Standard
Aug 14, 1985
Scientologists accuse U.S. judge of bias as suit against ex-member is dismissed — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Author(s):
George Ramos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Los Angeles' chief federal judge, who has been accused of bias by Church of Scientology officials, Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the church against a former member. The ruling by Chief U.S. District Judge Manuel Real came after he again ordered a Scientology attorney removed from the courtroom for arguing too much. On Monday, Real sent another church lawyer, Donald C. Randolph of Los Angeles, to jail — also for arguing. Although Randolph was released from custody several hours later, ...
Aug 13, 1985
Scientology lawyer jailed for his jousts with judge — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Author(s):
George Ramos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) A lawyer for the Church of Scientology was jailed for several hours late Monday after he verbally sparred with Los Angeles' chief U.S. district judge, whom church officials have accused of taking away church-related cases from other judges in order to cover up alleged government misconduct. Attorney Donald C. Randolph was taken into custody by federal marshals after he was found in contempt by Judge Manuel Real for repeatedly raising arguments that Real had rejected and said he no longer wanted ...
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