Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him pretty easily by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you'd like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.) [Header image courtesy John Rickard]
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‘Worst Christmas ever’: Q patriots aren’t feeling very merry and bright this year

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Q patriots are apparently not feeling very merry and bright this Christmas []

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Feds suing ‘stem cell’ scammers for preying on the elderly. Oh, and they’re Scientologists.

[Peyroux, left, and Detelich]

In March 2020, about a week before the pandemic hit us here in the US, we wrote a story about how a Colorado physician named Chris Centeno was exposing fly-by-night operations selling bogus cures based on what sounded like legitimate, emerging medical technologies. But even if stem cells and other emerging trends []

Q patriots still can’t believe you’re wearing a mask to protect yourself from a lethal virus

 Some links to Q-related items today…

A highly contagious new strain of a lethal virus is spreading fast around the world, but Q patriots are disappointed that people would wear masks to protect themselves from []

INSIDER: How Scientology’s ‘Ideal Org’ scam works, and how members are victimized by it

 Our insider is back with another message for us. This time they’re giving us a behind-the-scenes look at David Miscavige’s ‘Ideal Org’ program, which began around 2003, and only came to a halt in 2020 because of the pandemic. Some of this we had learned through other sources: Paul Burkhart exposed the financial scams underwriting []

Flynn sues the Jan 6 committee to block being held in contempt

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Things are heating []

Scientology’s 2021 was a leaky one, including new data about its dirty tricks

 This has been a year of startling reveals here at the Underground Bunker, and February certainly continued that momentum as we unmasked one of Scientology’s most notorious “bag []

Trump says he got the booster shot, and it twists Q patriots in knots

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Trump says he got the booster, and it twists Q patriots in []

The Underground Bunker’s 2021 Scientology year-in-review starts today!

[Danny Masterson’s preliminary hearing in May was a highlight of another messed up year]

A very happy winter solstice to our northern hemisphere readers, and to our antipodean friends, enjoy your summer! Once again it’s time to take stock of the year just past with our annual review, and wow, is this year finishing strong or []

Marjorie Taylor Greene calls Jan 6 a ‘fedsurrection’ at Arizona patriot hoedown

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Arizona continues to be a hotbed of []

INSIDER: How the ‘Chase Wave’ began, and how it crashed, leaving Scientology in chaos

 Our insider sent over another communication, this time to help explain the rise and fall of the “Chase Wave” racket in Scientology that we’ve been describing here thanks to a previous source who leaked us a document. In that document, Scientology registrars (“reg” or “regges” for short) were encouraged to lie to Chase Bank in []