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April 4, 2001 |
Letters: Scientology Should Be Treated Differently |
Leaders of Scientology, represented by at least one lawyer who works with Pope, were convicted in a plot involving infiltration and burglary of federal government offices. Scientology officials and organizations have been criminally convicted in Canada. If attorney Wallace Pope and Clearwater police Chief Sid Klein can't tell the difference between Calvary Baptist Church and a syndicate like Scientology, they are a lonely pair indeed. |
crimes, lawsuits, Press, Scientology and Society |
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April 3, 2001 |
Church of Scientology Sent to Trial in France |
A French magistrate has ordered the Paris division of the Church of Scientology to stand trial on charges of attempted extortion and invasion of privacy, judicial sources said on Tuesday. Investigating magistrate Renaud Van Ruymbeke also notified Marc Walter, a leader of Scientology in the Paris region, that he would face trial on the same charges, in addition to false advertising. |
crimes, fraud, Press |
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March 26, 2001 |
Sweet and sour: Travolta's terrible epic earns Golden Raspberry awards |
John Travolta's Battlefield Earth, based on science fiction by L. Ron Hubbard, has managed almost a clean sweep of Golden Raspberries in recognition of its profound awfulness. |
John Travolta, Press |
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March 22, 2001 |
Police work for Scientology |
Scientology has paid nearly $150,000 to 110 police officers since January 2000. The situation seems bizarre to observers who know that since the church moved into Clearwater under a false identity in the 1970s, the relationship between Scientology and the Clearwater Police Department has been cool at best, outwardly hostile at worst. |
Clearwater, Press, Scientology and Society |
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January 17, 2001 |
Church Of Scientology Fails To Prove Malicious Intent Of Time Magazine Writer |
The Church of Scientology did not show that the author of a 1991 article in Time magazine was malicious in his description of the organization, a U.S. court has ruled. In affirming a lower court's dismissal of a libel action, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said there was no likelihood that a jury would find "purposeful avoidance of the truth" in an article titled "Scientology: The Cult of Greed" by Richard Behar. |
defamation, lawsuits, Press |
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January 17, 2001 |
Publishing Company Wins Business Of The Year Award |
AMC Publishing offers newspaper, magazine and advertising publications for life and health insurance agents. The company, established in 1990 in Dallas, moved to Clearwater in 1993 with a staff of eight. "We moved here because I'm a member of the Church of Scientology and I wanted to be here," Bennetta Slaughter said. Scientology's spiritual headquarters is in Clearwater. |
Bennetta Slaughter, Clearwater, Press, WISE |
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January 14, 2001 |
Scientology Hearing Founders In Jabs, Jeers |
Ten feet - that's five paces - has become ultra-important to downtown Clearwater's archenemies, the Church of Scientology and the Lisa McPherson Trust, an anti-Scientology watchdog group. It's how far apart the members of each group must stay from each other, according to an injunction issued Nov. 30 by Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court Judge Thomas Penick. |
Bob Minton, Clearwater, lawsuits, Press |
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January 10, 2001 |
Scientologist Withdraws Bid For Church |
A wealthy Scientologist has withdrawn plans to buy a church in downtown Largo in which she hoped to open a Scientology mission. Kathy Feshbach said she did not feel comfortable about completing the deal after learning another church, which had been offered the chance to buy the property before her, is still interested in buying it. |
Clearwater, Kathy Feshbach, missions, Press |
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January 5, 2001 |
$1.2 Million Recovered In Fund Scam |
More than $1.2 million bilked from investors has been recovered by federal officials and will be returned to the fraud victims. A U.S. Customs Service investigation resulted in a court order this week directing the Church of Scientology to return $1.2 million donated by Dennel Finance. The church returned the funds to a receiver and has not been accused of any wrongdoing, authorities said. |
crimes, Phoenix, Press |
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November 4, 2000 |
Microsoft Deletes Scientology |
An insurance company has sued a branch of the Church of Scientology, alleging it was underpaid for a workers' compensation policy. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. claims in a lawsuit filed Monday that the church's Flag Service Organization owes $378,873 in premiums and fees assessed after an audit turned up employees who had been covered under the policy but were "not yet paid for." |
Germany, Press, Scientology and Society |
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