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The Money Machine
The four part series about the Church of Scientology's vast and unusually aggressive fundraising aparatus reveals how the church collects tens of millions of dollars each year using tactics that intimidate and coerce the people it professes to help -- its parishoners.
Tags: Church of Scientology; funding; religion; church
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Inside Scientology
The investigation examines the extraordinary amount of control the Church of Scientology has over its members. One story shows how church members were pressured to get abortions or face jobs loss. Other stories examine the church's questionable finances.
Tags: Church of Scientology; Scientology; abortion; religion; church corruption
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Scientology vs. Anonymous
This series focuses on the “struggle between one of the world’s most secretive churches and the internet’s most elusive protest organization”. Further, it reveals that the allegations of abuse by the Scientology leaders were never investigated by law enforcement. Additionally, the Anonymous protesters, considered a hate group, received donations from ranking church members.
Tags: Hemet, California; Riverside County Supervisor; L. Ron Hubbard; origin; religion; controversy; battle; war
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Inside Scientology
"The story provides an unprecedented view of life inside the Church of Scientology as told by former church staffers". Their accounts state how management promoted a culture of violence and abuse. Further, if someone ran away from the Church they were interrogated to keep them quiet about the inner troubles. But in late 2009, many parishioners began to speak out about the management's behavior.
Tags: Church; Marty Rathbun; Mike Rinder; David Miscavige; leader; physical violence; religion
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Lobbyists
A look at how lobbyists are spending money on state lawmakers and comparing Arizona's laws to other states. It was found that lobbyists have legal perks such as group event tickets to concerts, free meals at expensive restaurants and fancy out of town trips. Also, 15 years after a major scandal, the Arizona laws are found to be full of loopholes.
Tags: legislature; public money; lawmaking; law; scientology
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Scientology: A Question of Faith
"The report is an hour-long investigation into the Church of Scientology's vehement opposition to the practice of psychiatry, and how that many have contributed to the brutal murder of Elli Perkings..." Perkings was a Scientologist whose son, Jeremey, suffered acute schizophrenia. He went without any formal psychiatric treatment. He stabbed his mother to death because he believed she was evil.
Tags: psychiatric; faith; Scientology; schizophrenia; murder; family; mental illness; modern medicine; religion
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This man made $500 million disappear...
An Esquire investigation reveals how a con man, Reed Slatkin, convinced wealthy people to hand him millions of dollars. Slatkin started an elite art group, Sing Like Hell, which brought prominent singers and songwriters to perform for music lovers in Santa Barbara. The article describes how many new-establishment aristocrats got interested in the so-called "capital venture for the soul." They invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Slatkin's new fund that was supposed to get them significantly higher return than the rates typically paid by money-market funds. The scheme, known as one of the biggest investment frauds in American history, has been a fifteen-year operation involving as many as 850 investors, the magazine reports.
Tags: Scientology; Earthlink; Hollywood; WISE (World Institute of Scientology Enterprises); Security and Exchange Commission (SEC); business; bankruptcy
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Scientology Unmasked: Inside the Church of Scientology
This five-part series from the Boston Herald describes allegedly fraudulent and deceptive conduct by Scientologists in public and private schools in Massachusetts. Church members failed to identify their group, Narconon, as part of CHurch of Scientology while soliciting and accepting money from school boards and companies in payment for anti-drug lectures in schools. They pressured unusual methods of detoxification, pressured students to serve the church, pressured vulnerable accident victims with promises of healing; recruited black-community groups without disclosing all information; tax money wrongfullt used; intimidation
Tags: L. Ron Hubbard; Scientology; deception; wrongful death; cult
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Cult Awareness Network
For more than 20 years, the Cult Awareness Network (CAN) was the nation's best-known resource for distraught parents worried that cults had gained control of their children. From its offices in a Chicago suburb, CAN responded to more than 20,000 inquiries a year, counseled relatives and disseminated information through the media. The group still has friendly consultants eager to mail you information, but CAN is now being run by followers of the Church of Scientology. The report shows how the Church of Scientology drove CAN into bankruptcy and then purchased its name, logo, hotline number and address.
Tags: TAPE
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Clash of the Titans
Powers collide over freedom and events of the past, The German government says the Church of Scientology is a cult that relives the dark history of the country. Scientologists complain that it is the Germans who haven't changed. The battle continues as both sides are unwilling to compromise
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