Scientology Lies

March 29, 1989: Seventy-five members of the Church of Scientology's Italian operation go before a Milan court to face a long list of charges ranging from fraud, extortion and tax evasion to the illegal practice of medicine and taking advantage of incapacitated people.

March 3, 1998: An organization with ties to the Church of Scientology is recruiting New England schoolchildren for what critics say is an unproven — and possibly dangerous — anti-drug program. And the group — Narconon Inc. of Everett — is being paid with taxpayer dollars without disclosing its Scientology connections.

June 25, 2006: The St. Petersburg Times publishes "The Unperson," a story about disconnection and Suppressive Persons in Scientology.

December 21, 2005: The US Tax Court rules against Michael and Maria Sklar, who were seeking the right to deduct the cost of their children's religious education, a right that the IRS grants only to Scientologists.

January 25, 2007: This editorial shames Scientologists for exploiting a recent tragedy in an effort to discredit the practice of psychiatry.

March 28, 1999: Some physicians and a former Scientologist say the treatment, called a purification rundown, is dangerous and ineffective. Two members of the state physician's board are questioning whether a health-food store with ties to Scientology is practicing medicine illegally by offering a church-sanctioned vitamin regimen.

June 11, 1976: Michael Meisner and Gerald Wolfe are caught by FBI in the Washington DC courthouse after a security guard at the US Courthouse becomes suspicious of their (forged) IRS credentials. FBI agents question Michael Meisner and Gerald Wolfe. As told by the St. Petersburg Times: "The story is told in the uncontested evidence offered by the government at the Washington trial of nine Scientologists on conspiracy charges. Meisner and Wolfe were sitting in the library of the U.S. Courthouse on John Marshall Place -- at the foot of Capitol Hill where Constitution Avenue intersects with Pennsylvania. They were waiting for a cleaning crew to get out of the office of Nathan Dodell -- an old foe of Scientology -- so they could steal Dodell's personal files in order to devise a covert operation to remove him as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Two FBI agents, summoned by a suspicious night librarian, approached them and asked for identification. Meisner showed his IRS identification card. While agent Dan Hodges went to a telephone to call an assistant U.S. attorney, agent Christine Hansen questioned the two men. Meisner said he and Wolfe had been in the courthouse to do legal research and that they had used the photocopying machine in the U.S. attorney's office to copy legal books and cases. After 15 minutes, Meisner inquired if they were under arrest. When agent Hansen said they were not, Meisner said they were leaving and he and Wolfe walked out." Meisner will later be hidden from the FBI by the GO, but he will eventually turn himself in.

June 18, 1999: Meklar and kEvin picket in San Jose, California. Notes: no sprinkler tech, no Darlene, but kEvin gets DA fliers.

October 2, 2005: The New York Post reports that Scientology auditor and course supervisor Gabriel Williams repeatedly raped a 16-year-old Scientologist who had been ordered to live with Williams while she worked at Scientology's Mountain View org.