By Jeffrey Augustine The links below are the summary of the court reporting I did during the preliminary criminal trial of Rizza Islam and his co-defendants in the Los Angeles Downtown Criminal […]
September 26, 2012: Scientologist Johnny Lewis had been released from the Los Angeles County Jail five days earlier. The 28-year-old actor had served a 303-day sentence for charges of assault and breaking […]
Note: This article was originally published on Tony Ortega’s blog and is reprinted here for archival purposes. by Jeffrey Augustine The Church of Scientology is presently trying to make news by having […]
David Gentile’s GPB Capital announced a staggering devaluation of its funds from $1.8 billion to $1.1 billion. This took place in June. Our impression at the time was that the $700 million […]
(Note: This piece was originally published at Tony Ortega’s Underground Bunker and is republished here for archival reasons.) Scientology TV features so much repetitive and boring content that it has taken to […]
From the Times-Herald Record Online: The last two of five defendants recently pleaded guilty, a year after their federal indictment for what prosecutors have described as a “widespread,” six-year, $80 million health […]
Crime Russia reported today that Scientologist Anton Yeglin has been arrested in a bribery scheme in violation of Part 4 of Article 291.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The […]
A 58-year-old man committed suicide while seeking treatment for a prescription drug addiction. His family says that two rehab centers should have been able to prevent this death, and a jury agreed, […]
One of the criticisms of Oprah Winfrey is that she has never covered the Church of Scientology in any critical way. In the 1990’s and the 00’s when former Scientologists were contacting […]
[This piece we wrote was originally posted on Tony Ortega’s blog. We repost it here for archival purposes] As the Church of Scientology continues to hemorrhage membership, its losses in income and […]