The Church of Scientology argues that its IRS 501(c)(3) tax exempt status is proof that Scientology is a religion. Based upon this logic, then, when the Church loses its tax exemption it […]
Jeffrey Augustine
Investigative Journalist and Private Investigator based in Los Angeles.
What Happens After You File an IRS Form 13909 on the Church of Scientology?

Okay, so you’ve filed your Form 13909 on the Church of Scientology. What happens next? What does the IRS do? The IRS webpage details the steps it takes after it receives your […]
How to Simply and Effectively Report the Church of Scientology to the IRS

In his outstanding op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times, director Alex Gibney took a bold public stand in demanding that the IRS and the US Congress hold the Church of Scientology […]
David Miscavige on His Own Father: “Let Him Die”
Exclusive Los Angeles Times story by Kim Christensen going viral. Using his usual cut outs, David Miscavige paid two PI’s $10,000 per week for eighteen months to follow his own father Ron […]
David Miscavige’s Inner Circle

Publicly available IRS 990-T’s and other publicly available documents have given us the names of twenty-four trusted Church of Scientology functionaries. Please feel free to post additional names to help build an […]
Church of Scientology Policy Outlawing “Joking & Degrading”

Saturday Night Live has just done a magnificent parody of the Church of Scientology and its 1990’s promotional video We Stand Tall. What must the Church of Scientology think? I can tell […]
Scientologists Are Not Jews in the Holocaust and Yet They Pretend to Be

Led by violent narcissist David Miscavige, the psycho-terrorist organization known as the Church of Scientology has spent the past month hysterically attacking, defaming, and lashing out at everyone involved in HBO’s documentary […]
How Did the Church of Scientology Wiretap Nicole Kidman?

In the HBO documentary Going Clear, former #2 Scientology executive Mark “Marty” Rathbun reveals that Tom Cruise drifted away from the Church of Scientology in the 1990’s. During the fifteen month period […]
Disconnection by Allen Barton at the Beverly Hills Playhouse

The play Disconnection by Allen Barton has been held over at the Beverly Hills Playhouse until March 29. If you’re in Los Angeles and haven’t already seen Disconnection, I highly recommend the […]
Scientology, Monique Yingling, and HBO

Church of Scientology Attorney Monique Yingling wrote a letter to Jay Ward Brown of Levine Sullivan Koch Shulz, LLP (scroll down). The subject of the letter is Yingling’s allegation that Alex Gibney […]