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Witness says Scientology founder veiled income — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
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Author(s):
Fred Leeson Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) A former personal secretary to L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology, told a Portland jury Thursday about a secret system Hubbard used in the 1970s for collecting personal income from church organizations. Laurel J. Sullivan, who said she worked closely with Hubbard until he disappeared from public view in 1980, also testified that Hubbard held managerial control over numerous Scientology organizations despite his publicly announced "retirement" from church management in 1966. Contrary to a 1972 church policy ...
Apr 20, 1985
Hubbard removed as a defendant — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
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Clearwater Sun (Florida) From Sun reports A judge in Los Angeles Friday removed Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as a defendant in a $25 million suit by a former member who claims church promises that its methods Improve mental health are a fraud. Superior Court Judge Norman Epstein said he dropped Hubbard from the suit because the plaintiff's attorneys were unable to find him for three years to serve him with official notice of the legal action. The suit continues against the ...
Apr 19, 1985
Witness says judge probed — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
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Author(s):
Fred Leeson Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) A Portland judge who presided over a fraud trial involving the Church of Scientology in 1979 was the target of a covert operation by the church aimed at learning his attitudes about drug usage and sexual promiscuity, a former Scientologist testified Thursday. Martin L. Samuels, former head of the church in Portland, also testified that he and other church officials lied in the 1979 trial and that one reluctant ex-Scientologist was paid either $5,000 or $7,000 to testify on behalf of ...
Apr 17, 1985
Court hears final Scientology tape — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
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Author(s):
Fred Leeson Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) Jurors in the Church of Scientology fraud trial Tuesday listened to the last of five hours of surreptitiously-taped conversations in which a former Scientologist talked about a plan to "transform" church leadership by filing suit to take managerial control. "I think both of us want the organization to be transformed into something decent," Gerald D. Armstrong told a Scientologist who was involved in the effort to discredit Armstrong as a court witness by making tapes of the conversations without Armstrong's knowledge. ...
Apr 13, 1985
Two tapes not played at cult trial — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
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Author(s):
Fred Leeson Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) Attorneys for the Church of Scientology finished their cross-examination of a former Scientologist Friday without attempting to use the last two of four surreptitiously recorded videotapes made for the purpose of discrediting him. The latter tapes, made in Los Angeles In November 1984 without the knowledge of Gerald D. Armstrong, a church critic who appeared on them, were delivered to Multnomah Circuit Judge Donald H. Londer Friday. Londer had learned of the existence of the tapes Thursday and ordered them produced ...
Apr 12, 1985
New secret tapes revealed in lawsuit — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
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Author(s):
Fred Leeson Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) The existence of two more surreptitiously made videotapes involving conversations of a former member of the Church of Scientology was revealed in court Thursday, one day after church lawyers said they had no knowledge of any more such tapes. The new tapes bring to four the number of meetings in which the former Scientologist, who has attacked the church, was videotaped without his knowledge during meetings with church members who led him to believe they were trying to reform church practices. ...
Apr 11, 1985
Scientology trial jury views surreptiously made videotapes — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Fred Leeson Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) The Church of Scientology struck back Wednesday against a former member who testified against the church by playing to a Portland jury videotapes, made surreptitiously, in which the man discussed placing phony documents in church files. Multnomah Circuit Judge Donald H. Londer allowed the 108 minutes of tapes, made in a Los Angeles park last November, to be played to the jury as evidence of bias on the part of Gerald D. Armstrong against the church. "I can create documents with ...
Apr 9, 1985
Lawyers hassle at Scientology trial — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
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The Oregonian (Portland) Lawyers in the long-running Scientology fraud trial in Portland traded accusations Monday during an unusual day in which no testimony was presented to the jurors. Jurors were confined to a small room down the hall while Multnomah County Circuit Judge Donald H. Londer waded through a series of legal issues, including complaints against each other from attorneys leading each side of the case. Garry P. McMurry, representing a Portland woman suing the Church of Scientology for fraud arising from her involvement ...
Apr 5, 1985
Judge rules out videotapes aimed at discrediting witness — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
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Author(s):
Fred Leeson Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) An attempt to discredit a witness testifying against the Church of Scientology in a fraud trial hit a snag Thursday when a Portland judge called surreptitiously made videotapes an "amateurish performance" and refused to let them be shown to the jury. "I think they are devastating, devastating against the church," Multnomah Circuit Judge Donald H. Londer said out of the presence of the jury after viewing 108 minutes of tape recorded in a Los Angeles park last November. The tapes involved ...
Apr 2, 1985
Witness tells of income of Scientology founder — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Fred Leeson Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) A former Scientologist who said he helped manage L. Ron Hubbard's bank accounts testified Monday that the Scientology founder collected income of $200,000 to $1 million per week during a six-month period in 1982. Howard D. Schoemer, who left the Church of Scientology in December 1982, told a Multnomah County Circuit Court jury that the money was routed to Hubbard through Author Services Inc., a corporation that "supposedly had nothing to do with the church." Schoemer said the income to Hubbard ...
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Author Services, Inc. (ASI) (dba, Galaxy Press) (subsidiary of Church of Spiritual Technology) •
Copyright, trademark, patent •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Fred Leeson •
Howard "Homer" D. Schomer •
Income •
Inurement •
Julie Christofferson Titchbourne •
Lawsuit •
Royalties, license, trademark, management fees •
The Oregonian (Portland) Mar 30, 1985
Ex-Scientologist testifies church founder's biography 'lies' — The Oregonian (Portland)
Mar 28, 1985
Jury told of Scientology 'attack' policy — The Oregonian (Portland)
Mar 27, 1985
Covert action claim made in testimony — The Oregonian (Portland)
Mar 21, 1985
Ex-Scientology executive says church investigated plaintiff — The Oregonian (Portland)
Mar 20, 1985
Former Scientology official tells of stress on money — The Oregonian (Portland)
Mar 12, 1985
Scientology suit goes to trial for second time — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Fred Leeson Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) A young woman who once won and then lost more than $2 million in damages against the Church of Scientology in Portland started a second legal attack Monday on grounds that Scientologists defrauded her during nine months in 1975 and 1976. Julie Christofferson Titchbourne, who began her involvement with the church when she was 17, is asking a Multnomah County Circuit Court jury to return $3,253 she paid for courses and books and to award punitive damages as high as $42 ...
Dec 28, 1984
Julie Christofferson Titchbourne vs. Church of Scientology Mission of Davis; Church of Scientology of California; and L. Ron Hubbard: Eleventh amended and supplemental complaint for fraud
May 4, 1982
Court overturns Scientology judgment — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , link
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St. Petersburg Times (Florida) SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Court of Appeals on Monday overturned a jury's finding that the Church of Scientology had committed fraud against a former member and intentionally caused her emotional distress. The court nevertheless ruled that Martin Samuels, a Portland minister of the church, and the church's mission in Oregon should be retried on the fraud count. However, the jury will be allowed to look at only those claims made against the church that were of a secular nature, the ...
May 3, 1982
Scientologists win appeal — Oregon JournalMore: link
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Oregon Journal SALEM (UPI) — The Oregon Court of Appeals said Monday the Church of Scientology is innocent of "outrageous conduct" in a case involving a Portland woman awarded $2 million by a Multnomah County Circuit Court jury. The appeals court also said there was no evidence the church and the Delphian Foundation, a non-profit school, engaged in fraud, as alleged by Julie Christofferson. The court also reversed but sent back for a new trial allegations of fraud leveled against the church's Mission ...
Dec 1, 1980
Scientology's war against judges — The American Lawyer
Type: Press
Author(s):
James B. Stewart Source:
The American Lawyer On September 5, 1980, as U.S. District Court Judge Charles Richey was recuperating from two pulmonary embolisms and exhaustion, lawyers for the Church of Scientology and the Justice Department gathered before Judge Aubrey Robinson, Richey's successor in the two-year-old conspiracy case against 11 members of the Church of Scientology. Judge Richey had already convicted and sentenced nine of the original 11 defendants, but the remaining two, recently extradited from England, were about to go on trial. "Particularly from the standpoint of ...
Jun 18, 1980
Group linked with Scientology cult denied school lease — Cupertino Courier
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mike Myslinski Source:
Cupertino Courier An education group organizing in the Cupertino School District area may have tried to play down its affiliation with a controversial religious cult, the Church of Scientology. The non-profit Applied Scholastics Inc. (ASI) has also held unauthorized training courses for three district teachers at the district's Hoover School after a request to have the district sponsor ASI programs was turned down by Associate Superintendent for Instruction William Zachmeier. "We're not a front for Scientology," stressed ASI Executive Director Lisa Patella. "Our ...
May 1, 1980
Scientology: Anatomy of a frightening cult [Canadian edition] — Reader's DigestMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Eugene H. Methvin Source:
Reader's Digest The faithful inner core serve as thieves, decoys and spies. The shocking story behind one of the most dangerous “religious cults” operating today IN THE late 1940s, pulp writer L. Ron Hubbard declared, “Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million, the best way would be to start his own religion.” Hubbard did start his own religion, calling it the “Church of Scientology,” and it has grown into an enterprise today grossing ...
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American Medical Association (AMA) •
American Psychiatric Association (APA) •
Anne Rosenblum •
Apollo (formerly, "Royal Scot Man"; often misspelled "Royal Scotman", "Royal Scotsman") •
Auditing •
Better Business Bureau (BBB) •
Blackmail •
Canada •
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) •
Commissions •
Communications Course •
Cost •
Dead agenting (Black PR, smear campaign) •
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (book) •
Engram •
Eric McLean •
Eugene H. Methvin •
Fair game •
False imprisonment •
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) •
Field Staff Member (FSM) •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Income •
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) •
Julie Christofferson Titchbourne •
L. Ron Hubbard's credentials •
Lawsuit •
Margaret Thaler Singer •
Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard •
Medical claims •
Membership •
Michael J. Flynn •
Michael James Meisner •
Nancy McLean •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Operation Snow White •
Potential Trouble Source (PTS) •
Raymond Banoun •
Reader's Digest •
Recruitment •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
Royalties, license, trademark, management fees •
Saint Hill Manor @ East Grinstead (UK) •
Salary •
Scientology's "Clear" state •
Suicide •
Threat of physical harm •
Training Routines (TRs) •
U.S. Department of Justice •
World Federation of Mental Health •
[needtotag] Mar 6, 1980
Church's 27 steps to refund of course charges — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Dec 15, 1979
Scientology foes rally today — Clearwater Times (Florida)
Dec 13, 1979
Anti-Scientologists start lawsuit fund — Clearwater Times (Florida)
Oct 8, 1979
Scientology verdict: Erosion of rights? — Los Angeles Times (California)
Sep 19, 1979
Scientology secrets revealed in 2 million dollar consumer fraud case // Scientology on trial — Bay Guardian (San Francisco)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard H. Meeker Source:
Bay Guardian (San Francisco) How a Portland jury got a crash course in one of the oddest "religions" ever created and awarded the plaintiff more than $2. million Note: This summer, a jury in Portland spent a month listening to testimony in a $4 million lawsuit over the practices of the Church of Scientology there. The plaintiff: Julie Christofferson, a young Portland woman who was a follower of Scientology in 1975 and 1976. The defendants: three local Scientology organizations and one of their leaders. ''Richard ...
Aug 17, 1979
Church of Scientology must pay woman $2 million — Detroit Free PressMore: link
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Detroit Free Press PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) — A 22-year-old woman whose attorney claimed she "lived through an Orwellian horror story" as a Church of Scientology member was awarded more than $2 million in court Wednesday. Julie Christopherson Titchbourne charged in her suit that the church engaged in unlawful trade practices, fraud and outrageous conduct, damaging her psychologically. A jury of seven women and five men deliberated 18 hours before awarding her $3,000 as compensation for the cost of Scientology courses she took and $150,000 ...
Aug 16, 1979
Claim of Scientology fraud nets Oregonian $2 million — Detroit Free PressMore: link
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Detroit Free Press PORTLAND, Ore. — (AP) — A jury awarded more than $2 million in damages Wednesday to a 22-year-old woman who claimed the Church of Scientology defrauded her by failing to fulfill promises of improving her life. The jury deliberated 18 hours over two days before reaching its unanimous decision. In her suit, Julie C. Titchbourne, 21, of Portland, alleged she suffered emotional distress as a result of her experience with the church in 1975-76. She had sought $2 million in punitive ...
Aug 16, 1979
Woman awarded $2 million in suit against Scientologists — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) Church failed to fulfill promises of improving life, she claimed; also said she suffered emotional distress PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury awarded more than $2 million in damages Wednesday to a 22-year-old woman who claimed the Church of Scientology defrauded her by failing to fulfil promises of improving her life. The jury deliberated 18 hours over two days before reaching its unanimous decision. In her suit, Julie C. Titchbourne, 21, of Portland, alleged she suffered emotional distress as a result ...
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