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Nov 11, 1984
Horror story told in sect suit — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) CLEARWATER—Possibly the highest-ranking, most influential Scientologist to defect from the Clearwater-based, international sect has sued Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard for more than $225 million. Citing physical abuse, the intentional infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment and the violation of his civil rights, Howard D. "Homer" Schomer, the 49-year-old former treasury secretary of the sect's Author Services Inc. branch, is demanding a jury trial and damages of $226,528,200. Schomer's claims, if proved true, offer a dark view of the ...
Tag(s):
Apollo (formerly, "Royal Scot Man"; often misspelled "Royal Scotman", "Royal Scotsman") •
Assets •
Author Services, Inc. (ASI) (dba, Galaxy Press) (subsidiary of Church of Spiritual Technology) •
Church of Scientology of California (CSC) •
Clearwater Sun (Florida) •
Commodore's Messenger Organization (CMO) •
David Miscavige •
David Miscavige: physical violence •
False imprisonment •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
George-Wayne Shelor •
Heber C. Jentzsch •
Howard "Homer" D. Schomer •
Income •
Inurement •
L. Ron Hubbard's credentials •
Lawsuit •
Michael J. Flynn •
Money laundering •
Patrick D. "Pat" Broeker (aka Mike Mitchell) •
Royalties, license, trademark, management fees •
Salary •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Security check ("sec check") •
Threat of physical harm
Aug 28, 1984
Ex-members denounce sect rehab program — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) The young man — by all appearances a teen-ager — crouched on the dark, narrow stairway as he scrubbed the sixth-floor landing in the former Fort Harrison Hotel, the "Flag Land Base" headquarters of the Church of Scientology. "Are you in RPF?" queried a reporter. "Sir?" he asked quietly, peering up from his work. "Are you in RPF?" "Yes sir, I am." RPF is the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), which, depending on who is speaking, is either a businessman's approach to ...
Aug 10, 1984
Letters // Rubber and Glue // I Remember Mammon — L.A. Weekly (California)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
L.A. Weekly (California) [...] Rubber and Glue
Dear Editor: I am a member of the Church of Scientology. I have been so officially since I took my first course in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1971. I find your article (
"Did Scientology Defraud Members?" L.A. Weekly , July 20-26 ) rather disgusting — which is a personal remark, so I won't spend column inches indulging my repugnance. So, to go right to the point. The Church of Scientology as a group and as it represents the applied ...
Jul 29, 1984
Hubbard youth // The teenage bullies who reign supreme over a sinister cult — Daily Mail (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Peter Dobbie Source:
Daily Mail (UK) THE head of the Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, whose organisation was described by a High Court judge as 'dangerous, immoral, sinister and corrupt', has been ordered to stay away from Britain. The 74-year-old recluse, himself declared a 'charlatan' by the judge, had hoped to reverse a Home Office ruling which barred him from coming to this country to address his followers at the British headquarters of the sect, Saint Hill, at East Grinstead, Sussex. But when he refused to ...
Jul 13, 1984
How profits the prophet? — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) L. Ron Hubbard, the controversial and elusive founder of the Church of Scientology, is nothing if not a prophet. In 1949, while still known principally as an author of science fiction, he was reported to have told a lecture audience, "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion." Conventional clerics may dispute Hubbard's theology but they can't refute his economics. By ...
Jul 11, 1984
Scientology chief got millions, ex-aides say — New York TimesMore: link , nytimes.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Lindsey Source:
New York Times Former officials of the Church of Scientology say they helped L. Ron Hubbard, the reclusive founder of the cult-like organization, to secretly divert more than $100 million from the church into foreign bank accounts he controlled. The organization, long a subject of investigations in this country, Britain, France, Australia, South Africa, Spain and elsewhere, has maintained that Mr. Hubbard cut his ties to it in the mid-1970's, that he has received only a token consulting fee of $35,000 annually since then ...
Jun 2, 1984
Youngsters expelled from school in Church of Scientology storm — Seattle Post-IntelligencerMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
John McCoy Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Two youngsters were expelled from a private school in Bellevue last week because of a continuing dispute about the real wishes of a 72-year-old man who hasn't been seen in years. The youngsters, brothers Garrett and Allen Dean, aged 6 and 9, must wonder what happened. Despite their good grades and conduct, the boys were kicked out of The Learning Place School, a private institution that follows the educational philosophy of L. Ron Hubbard but invites students of all faiths. Hubbard, ...
May 11, 1984
Former Scientologist recalls degradation — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) LOS ANGELES—The horror, the degradation, the humiliation and the pain all caught up with Gerald Armstrong Thursday when he broke down in tears while testifying in Superior Court here about his 11 years within the Church of Scientology. The former sect archivist and subject of a suit Charging him with taking personal papers of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, Armstrong shook with sob while recalling his 17-month term in the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), a form of Scientology punishment where he ...
Feb 11, 1984
'We disconnect you' / MP seeks top-level inquiry as 'Church' again disrupts families — Daily Mail (UK)
Feb 9, 1984
Sect president denies wrongdoing in probe — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Mangum Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) Recent reports about the Church of Scientology hiring de-? pose as businessmen to elicit views about the sect from Clearwater civic leaders are "much ado about nothing," sect President Heber Jentzsch said Wednesday. "The issues all will come out in court," the 48-year-old Jentzsch told reporters during an "open house" at the sect-owned Fort Harrison Hotel in downtown Clearwater. Jentzsch would not discuss specifics, but hinted the Scientology inquiry was tied into concerns about real estate speculation downtown and its potential ...
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