We just got our hands on a legal complaint that was filed back on June 30. It’s yet another fraud lawsuit filed by Las Vegas attorney Ryan Hamilton against Scientology’s drug rehab network, Narconon.
In this case, Hamilton represents a California family that searched the Internet in January for a rehab center. Barbara Knoflick wanted to find a place for her son, Terney.
Someone at a generic referral site took her info, and then she was contacted by Mike DiPalma of Narconon. According to the complaint, DiPalma told Barbara that Narconon Redwood Cliffs in Watsonville has an 85 percent success rate, that her son would be cared for by medical professionals, and that he would receive personalized drug counseling.
Barbara was told that the program used a sauna program based on scientific principles, and that Narconon’s was a secular regimen.
Barbara paid $37,500 for her son’s treatment.
But the Knoflicks soon learned what others do when they get to the program — that it’s Scientology training, not drug counseling. The sauna program, meanwhile, is a risky procedure not based on scientific principles, and it was not monitored by medical personnel.
Hamilton provides material from previous lawsuits showing that Narconon’s own legal expert cast doubt on the high success rates advertised by Narconon centers.
Despite [Narconon’s] representations that Terney would receive counseling, at no point did staff ever speak to Terney about the specifics of his life or his drug use and its causes. In fact, no one at NNC ever spoke to Terney about his substance abuse at all. Intead, counselors at the NNC center attempted to treat Terney using only Scientology. Terney was suspended from the Redwood Cliffs program for being critical of its treatment.
Here’s the complaint…
Knoflick v. Narconon: Complaint
By our count, that’s seventeen lawsuits Hamilton has filed against Narconon in California, Nevada, and Colorado.
Angelo Amato (San Diego)
Christy Estrada and Branden Chavez (San Diego)
Cathy and Michael Tarr (Nevada)
Harry and Lauren Geanacopulos (Nevada)
David, Stacy, and Jack Welch (Nevada)
Bryan and Nikki Mott (Colorado)
Charles and Tyler Matthys, and Linda Phillips (Colorado)
Kenneth and Jered Mowery (Watsonville, CA)
Robin Jones, James Ramirez Sr. and Jr. (Watsonville, CA)
Charis Yates, Beret and Dean Pugh (Nevada)
Lori, Ryan, and Jilliene Winchell (Nevada)
Ben Levy (Colorado)
Monica and Sean O’Connell (Watsonville, CA)
Ronald and Jason McClure (Nevada)
Michael and David Tino (Nevada)
Jerry and Christy Courson (Colorado)
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Those pesky public documents
Karen de la Carriere and Jeffrey Augustine ponder the panic inside Scientology over the flow of information to the wog world!
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Posted by Tony Ortega on July 15, 2014 at 07:00
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