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15 matching items found between Jan 1986 and Jun 1986. Furthermore, there are 613 matching items for all time not shown.
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Jun 14, 1986
Scientology 'purification' rite used by anti-addiction centres — Toronto Star (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s): Lindsay Scotton
Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
A controversial "purification" regime used by the Church of Scientology to advance members' spiritual enlightenment is also being used by Narconon, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre, and is being offered at a Toronto health clinic. The "Purification Rundown" used by Narconon and the Lafayette Health Centre uses large vitamin dosages, exercise and long hours in the sauna to "cleanse" the body of accumulated impurities, according to Narconon officials and the health centre's director. Costs of the treatment offered ...
May 31, 1986
Prosecutor cites Kattar crime ties; family, friends tell different story — Lawrence-Eagle-Tribune
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Type: Press
Author(s): Michael Foley
Source: Lawrence-Eagle-Tribune
BOSTON — Assistant U.S. Attorney Brackett B. Denniston said Methuen businessman George Kattar is tied to an organized crime family in Providence, R.I., and was given permission by "La Cosa Nostra" to murder a key government witness against him. His friends said, however, that Kattar is not a violent man. U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Cohen listened to both sides yesterday at a hearing to decide whether Kattar could be released on bail or held to protect the community. Judge Cohen ...
May 30, 1986
Two men charged in Scientology scam — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
BOSTON — FBI agents on Wednesday arrested a New Hampshire man and a disbarred lawyer on charges of extorting $33,000 from the Church of Scientology by offering false information about a scheme to steal $2 million from the church. George T. Kattar, 67, of Meredith, N.H. formerly of Methuen, Mass., was held without bail pending a detention hearing today. Harvey Brower, 49, of Swampscott, Mass., a former lawyer turned writer, was released on $50,000 bail. According to an indictment issued by ...
May 29, 1986
$100G Scientology 'scam' // Feds charge 2 with Mob connections — Boston Herald
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Type: Press
Author(s): Jim MacLaughlin
Source: Boston Herald
A DISBARRED lawyer with Mob connections and a Methuen man linked to organized crime were arrested yesterday and charged with trying to bilk the Church of Scientology out of $100,000, said officials. The alleged scam netted Harvey Brower, 49, of Swampscott, and George T. Kattar, 67, of Methuen, $33,333 before they were arrested by FBI agents, said the US. Attorney's office. The two were indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston May 23 and charged with fraud, extortion and other ...
May 29, 1986
Brower: 'A magnet for trouble' — Lawrence-Eagle-Tribune
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Type: Press
Author(s): Susan Forrest
Source: Lawrence-Eagle-Tribune
BOSTON — Harvey Brower, in his own words, is a magnet for trouble. Once a lawyer, college professor and classical musician, the 49-year-old Brower now has a 45-year jail sentence hanging over his head. "I seem to attract trouble like a magnet," he said after his arraignment in U.S. District Court on charges of defrauding the Church of Scientology. Despite his trouble, Brower seemed unsinkable yesterday as he reeled off one-liners and chain-smoked cigarettes with an Eagle-Tribune reporter in the ninth-floor ...
May 29, 1986
Ex-lawyer, N.H. man charged in plan to bilk Church of Scientology — Boston Globe
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Type: Press
Author(s): William F. Doherty
Source: Boston Globe
FBI agents yesterday arrested a New Hampshire man and a disbarred lawyer on charges of extorting $33,000 from the Church of Scientology by offering false information about a scheme to steal $2 million from the church. George T. Kattar, 67, of Meredith, N.H., formerly of Methuen, was held without bail pending a detention hearing tomorrow. Harvey Brower, 49, of Swampscott, a former lawyer turned writer, was released on $50,000 bail. According to an indictment issued by a federal grand jury in ...
May 29, 1986
Kattar jailed; prosecution says it fears for witnesses — Lawrence-Eagle-Tribune
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Type: Press
Source: 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-Tribune
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Type: Press
Author(s): 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 29, 1986
Lower court can ban publication of Scientology hearing, judge rules — Toronto Star (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s): Rick Haliechuk
Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
An Ontario Supreme Court judge says a lower court can ban publication of the hearing of a Scientologist who is pleading guilty of possessing a stolen document. Mr. Justice David Watt yesterday sent the case of Kathleen Lepp back to Provincial Court, but to a different judge than the one who ruled in January he lacked authority to issue the ban. Lepp, other current and former members of the church and the church itself are facing a variety of criminal charges. ...
Apr 19, 1986
Park Ridge showdown parents protest firing of Montessori teachers — Chicago Sun Times
Type: Press
Source: Chicago Sun Times
Scientologists and opponents of cults waged a war of leaflets last night as more than 100 angry parents confronted two representatives of a Park Ridge Montessori school that fired five teachers in a furor over teaching materials. Claiming their children had been traumatized by the abrupt firings, some parents threatened a breach-of-contract lawsuit. Parents said two-thirds of the more than 200 students at the school were withdrawn because the teachers were fired when they refused to use books designed by the ...
Mar 4, 1986
Charges in deprogramming — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Feb 14, 1986
In God's name / Legal umbrella shields money-making religious groups from authorities — Santa Barbara News-Press
Jan 29, 1986
L. Ron Hubbard dies of stroke; founder of Church of Scientology — New York Times
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Jan 5, 1986
Lawyer seeks publication ban in Church of Scientology case — Toronto Star (Canada)
Type: Press
Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
The Church of Scientology and some of its members who were charged after a raid on its headquarters are asking for a publication ban on a guilty plea by one of the co-accused. Kathleen Lepp, 37, of Niagara-on-the-Lake, charged with possession of stolen property, appeared in Provincial Court at old city hall Friday. Defence counsel Clay Ruby, on behalf of the church and other lawyers representing some of the co-accused, asked Judge Robert Dnieper to impose a ban on the proceedings ...
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