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State of Florida Department of Health v. David Ira Minkoff, M.D. / Case no. 1997-15802
Dec 15, 1999
Scientology leader named defendant in suit — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 7, 1999
Belief called irrelevant in death — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas C. Tobin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The Church of Scientology in Clearwater cannot rely on religious grounds to escape prosecution in the death of one of its members, Pinellas-Pasco prosecutors argued in a strongly worded document filed Monday.
The document referred to the church's Clearwater entity as "a multifaceted non-profit corporation" that "engages in extensive revenue sharing activity" and generates "tremendous cash flow."
The wording aims to undercut an argument by church lawyers that Scientology staffers were giving "spiritual assistance" to parishioner Lisa McPherson when she died ...
Nov 28, 1999
John Travolta's alien nation — Washington Post
Nov 20, 1999
French Scientologists sentenced in fraud — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) A former French Scientology official has been sentenced to two years in prison for fraud, along with four other Scientologists who received suspended sentences of six months to two years. Xavier Delamare, former head of Scientology's branch in the southern French city of Marseille, was sentenced Monday in connection with a 10-year-old case in which he was found guilty of operating sham "purification" courses between 1987 and 1990. As with the others, Delamare will not go to prison because 18 months ...
Nov 16, 1999
Scientology leader jailed for fraud // Group denounces French trial as inquisition — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jon Henley Source:
The Guardian (UK) In another blow to the controversial Church of Scientology's battle to be recognised as a religion rather than a sect, a French court yesterday found one of its former leaders guilty of fraud and sentenced him to six months in prison. Xavier Delamare, a former regional Scientology leader in south-east France, was given a further 18 month suspended sentence by the Marseille court while four other members accused of fraud, violence and illegally practising medicine were given suspended sentences of six ...
Nov 15, 1999
French scientologists guilty of fraud — BBC News
Type: Press
Source:
BBC News A court in the French city of Marseilles has found five members of the Church of Scientology guilty on fraud charges over courses offered by the organisation. The former leader of the church in southern France, Xavier Delamare, was sentenced to two years in jail, including 18 months suspended, and fined 16,000 dollars for manipulating people into giving money to the church. He will not return to jail because he has spent 17 weeks in pre-trial detention. Four more people were ...
Oct 9, 1999
World briefing // Russia: Scientology loses license — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Michael Wines Source:
New York Times RUSSIA: SCIENTOLOGY LOSES LICENSE – A Moscow city court has revoked the license of the Church of Scientology, saying the organization violated registration laws, and perhaps tax laws, by listing bogus founders of the sect's local branch. Tax police raided the sect's center this year. Scientology officials said the revocation, which was applauded by the Russian Orthodox Church, was politically driven. Michael Wines (NYT)
Sep 21, 1999
World briefing / France: Scientologists on trial — New York Times
Sep 20, 1999
Scientology trial opens in France — BBC News
Sep 9, 1999
Loss of Scientology files studied — New York Times
Sep 9, 1999
Scientology faces French ban — BBC News
Aug 13, 1999
Valley women misidentified selves at Scientology event — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) Two San Jacinto Valley women posed as two other women Saturday during a grand opening program at the Church of Scientology's Golden Era film studio in Gilman Hot Springs. Kathleen Racela, an emergency room nurse at Hemet Valley Medical Center, and Patty Duffy, a nurse in a Hemet physician's office, gave a reporter other names when interviewed at the grand opening. They have not publicly explained why they identified themselves as two other nurses at the hospital: Teri Pino and Debb ...
May 9, 1999
Is Scientology above the law? — France 2
Mar 29, 1999
Abroad: Critics public and private keep pressure on Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lucy Morgan Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Scientology leaders say they want peace. They say they want to stay out of court. But with both foes at home and foes abroad, that goal may be elusive. The spiritual home of the Church of Scientology is in Clearwater, but for many years now its leaders have had worldwide ambitions. But as disciples have carried L. Ron Hubbard's teachings away from America's shore, the reception has been almost universally chilly at best – and at times openly hostile. At one ...
Tag(s):
Anti-psychiatry •
Bankruptcy •
Bonnie Woods •
Canada •
Casey Hill •
Church of Scientology of Toronto •
Copyright, trademark, patent •
Death •
Denmark •
Detox •
France •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Germany •
Greece •
Hard sell •
Heber C. Jentzsch •
Infiltration •
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) •
Italy •
Karin Spaink •
Lawsuit •
Legal •
Lucy Morgan •
Medical claims •
Membership •
Mental illness •
Michael J. "Mike" Rinder •
Monique E. Yingling •
Nazi labelling •
Netherlands •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Oxford Capacity Analysis (aka, "free Scientology personality test" aka "U-Test" aka "Pape Test") •
Patrice Vic •
Private investigator(s) •
Purification Rundown ("Purif") •
Recruitment •
Refunds •
Richard Woods •
Russia •
Silencing criticism, censorship •
Spain •
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) •
Suicide •
Sweden •
Switzerland •
UK Charity Commission •
United Kingdom (UK) •
Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire) •
Zenon Panoussis Mar 29, 1999
At home: Critics public and private keep pressure on Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lucy Morgan Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Scientology leaders say they want peace. They say they want to stay out of court. But with both foes at home and foes abroad, that goal may be elusive. Leaders of the Clearwater-based Church of Scientology say they hope the years of heavy legal expenses are over. That may not be a realistic hope. While the number of cases Scientology is currently pursuing is down in the United States, a survey of the cases still under way shows a persistence and ...
Mar 28, 1999
Store selling Scientology vitamin regimen raises concerns — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Geoff Dougherty Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) NEW PORT RICHEY – Two members of the state physician's board are questioning whether a health-food store with ties to Scientology is practicing medicine illegally by offering a church-sanctioned vitamin regimen. The treatment, called "purification rundown," is one of the first steps Scientologists take upon joining the church. Church members tout the rundown as a purifying routine that enables people to kick drug abuse and "think more clearly and have more energy." Some physicians, and a former Scientologist interviewed by the ...
Jan 31, 1999
Scientology: A church and its foes / Church's roots run deep in the Inland area — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Jan 31, 1999
Scientology: A church and its foes / Ex-church member fight for right to speak out — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Susan Thurston Source:
Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) Tag(s):
Abortion •
Aron Mason •
Assault •
Bankruptcy •
Blackmail •
Confidential preclear (PC) folder •
Copyright, trademark, patent •
Daniel A. Leipold •
Destroying/hiding/falsifying evidences •
Disconnection •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Gold Base (also, "INT Base") @ Gilman Hot Springs •
Golden Era Productions •
Intimidation •
Jesse Prince •
Ken Hoden •
Kidnapping •
Lawsuit •
Membership •
Perjury •
Pregnancy •
Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
Release contract, form, waiver •
Religious Technology Center (RTC) •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Silencing criticism, censorship •
Susan Thurston Dec 14, 1998
Investigative Reports: Inside Scientology [Part 5 of 10] — Arts and Entertainment Channel
Type: TV
Source:
Arts and Entertainment Channel picture of LRH; pictures of books “L. Ron Hubbard, Messiah or Madman?”, “Bare-Faced Messiah] VO: Scientology lost its founder in 1986. And the news that Hubbard was no longer sparked a flurry of unofficial biographies. Russell Miller walking down road; picture of LRH RUSSELL MILLER (voice of and on camera): I knew that there was some question mark over L. Ron Hubbard’s background. The church presents a picture of L. Ron Hubbard as being a very extraordinary individual, and was almost ...
Dec 10, 1998
Scientology wants city's kids — NOW MagazineMore: nowtoronto.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Enzo Di Matteo Source:
NOW Magazine Quaint Clarkson, tucked away on the westernmost edge of Mississauga, seems as unlikely a place as any to find L. Ron Hubbard, sci-fi-writer-turned-icon and founder of the much-vilified Church of Scientology.
But here, just past the picket fences and over the train tracks where the old post office used to be, the portrait that graces Hubbard's opus Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health – sailor cap, face turned upward, blue sky in the background – hangs in the foyer of ...
Dec 6, 1998
McPherson relatives lead protest — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas C. Tobin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Protesters gather in a somber ceremony outside the Fort Harrison Hotel, where Lisa McPherson spent her final days. CLEARWATER — Relatives of Lisa McPherson made a tear-filled trip Saturday night to the Scientology hotel where she spent her final days under guard and in the grips of a mental breakdown. Her aunt and uncle, Dell and Art Liebreich, and her cousin Kim Krenek led a group of about 60 anti-Scientology protesters who held candles and laid a wreath outside a privacy ...
Dec 6, 1998
The life & death of a Scientologist // After 13 years and thousands of dollars, Lisa McPherson finally went 'Clear.' Then she went insane — Washington PostMore: xenutv.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Washington Post CLEARWATER, Fla. - Dec 6, 1998 - "I am L. Ron Hubbard," the woman on the hotel room bed announced in a robotic voice. "I created time 3 billion years ago." She rambled on and on, every outburst dutifully scribbled down by those assigned to watch her. "I can't confront force . . . I need my auditor . . . I want to take a toothbrush and brush the floor until I have a cognition." The jargon of Scientology was ...
Nov 14, 1998
Church of Scientology charged in member's death — CNN
Type: Press
Source:
CNN CLEARWATER, Florida (CNN) — The Church of Scientology was charged by Florida prosecutors Friday in the death of a member. The State Attorney's office in Pinellas County filed the felony charges after a lengthy investigation into the 1995 death of Lisa McPherson. McPherson had been a member of the church for 18 years and, according to relatives, had been talking about leaving the church. McPherson, 36, died December 5, 1995, after being confined for 18 days to a Scientology property called ...
Nov 14, 1998
Scientology charged in member's death — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas C. Tobin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The church faces two felony charges in its treatment of Lisa McPherson. The Church of Scientology in Clearwater has been charged with criminal neglect and practicing medicine without a license in the 1995 death of Lisa McPherson, the mentally disturbed Scientologist who turned to outsiders for help before church officials intervened and placed her under their care. Unlicensed Scientology staffers "medicated her without her consent," isolated her and took other measures to treat her physical and mental condition at Scientology's Fort ...
Oct 9, 1998
Earle Cooley's memory lapse with the Boston Globe
Type: Account
Author(s):
Jesse Prince I recently read a column by Alex Beam in the September 16 edition of the Boston Globe. It was titled
"Boston U's Scientology Connection" and it was about Earle Cooley. One thing that really caught my eye was the part where Beam said that "whenever Cooley and I discussed the excesses committed by the church - the harassment of a journalist, for instance - he said he had no knowledge of illegal activities." I had to laugh when I read ...
Sep 24, 1998
A classic example of the fair game policy at work More: groups.google.com
Type: Account
Author(s):
Stacy Brooks Young (Gerry Armstrong is my friend now that we are both out of Scientology, and I have already told him this story. I have told him how sorry I am for my part in trying to destroy him when I was still an
OSA staff member. I’ve told several other people this story as well, and they have urged me to share it because it is such a classic illustration of how far
DM and his cronies are willing to ...
Sep 1, 1998
When Scholars Know Sin — Skeptic magazineMore: skeptic.com
Aug 25, 1998
Jesse Prince interviews – Tape 3 — FACTnet
Aug 25, 1998
Jesse Prince interviews – Tape 4 — FACTnet
Type: Interview
Source:
FACTnet Tag(s):
Advanced Ability Center •
Andre Tabayoyon •
Assets •
Auditing •
Author Services, Inc. (ASI) (dba, Galaxy Press) (subsidiary of Church of Spiritual Technology) •
Chick Corea •
Chris Silcock •
Church of Scientology of California (CSC) •
Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) (dba, L. Ron Hubbard Library) •
Confidential preclear (PC) folder •
Cost •
David Mayo •
David Miscavige •
Death •
Dennis Erlich •
Diane Morrison •
Ed Brewer •
Eugene M. Ingram •
FACTNet •
Fair game •
False imprisonment •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Gerald "Gerry" Armstrong •
Gold Base (also, "INT Base") @ Gilman Hot Springs •
Hard sell •
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) •
International Association of Scientologists (IAS) •
Jeff Shriver •
Jesse Prince •
John Travolta •
Kevin True •
Lawrence "Larry" Wollersheim •
Lawrence E. "Larry" Heller •
Lichtenstein •
Lyman D. Spurlock •
Marc Yager •
Mark C. "Marty" Rathbun •
Morag Bellmaine •
MV Freewinds (formerly, La Bohème) •
Norman F. Starkey •
Potential Trouble Source (PTS) •
Private investigator(s) •
Registrar (also, to "reg") •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
Religious Technology Center (RTC) •
Richard N. Aznaran •
Robert "Bob" Mithoff •
Robin Scott •
Ron Miscavige •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Sherman D. Lenske •
Stephanie Silcock •
Stephen A. Lenske •
Suicide •
Suppressive person (SP) •
Weapons •
World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE)
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