Tony Ortega | The Underground Bunker

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]

Scientology asks for emergency hearing Monday to force Valerie Haney into ‘arbitration’

[Valerie Haney]

New court documents indicate that the Church of Scientology has asked for an emergency “ex parte” hearing on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court so that it can ask that Valerie Haney’s lawsuit alleging kidnapping and slander be stayed so the church can force her to take her grievances to an internal Scientology arbitration […]

Phil and Willie check up on a Scientology eyesore, and a prisoner of The Hole resurfaces

[The unstoppable Phil and Willie Jones]

Our thanks this holiday season to Phil Jones for sending us this dispatch from the frozen […]

‘Have you got a head?’ — Listen in to Scientology as a wacky group experience

[Hubbard in the 1950s]

While we were going through various L. Ron Hubbard lectures looking for fun items for our “Source Code” feature, we ran into something pretty wild that we wanted to share with […]

Why the IRS will likely do nothing about Mormon and Scientology illegal slush funds

Monday night, the Washington Post uncorked a stunning investigation based on a whistleblower’s confidential report to the IRS. The report, written by a former employee of a subsidiary of the Mormon church, claimed that the church has, in violation of its tax exempt status, amassed a fortune of $100 billion. And instead of making expenditures […]

Russian’s $1 million to Parnas: Another stubborn fact for Trump surrogates to wave off

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story… Giuliani associate received $1 million payment from Ukrainian oligarch’s lawyer: prosecutor]

While Trump surrogates are breaking their brains to conceive of a conspiracy theory from cheesecloth and fairy dust that might exonerate him if you squint just so, it’s against […]

Rudy Giuliani is so off the rails now, it’s like he stole a cop car and is driving drunk in it

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story… Giuliani returns from Ukraine with new, very questionable “evidence” that the Bidens committed “multiple crimes”]

It’s hard to come up with a decent analogy for what Giuliani is doing right now, but imagine getting pulled over for drunk driving, stealing […]

The Scientology spy who wants desperately to come in from the cold

So you’ve been spying undercover for the Church of Scientology for years. Decades, in fact. You’ve infiltrated squirrel groups and anti-Scientology protests for the church’s spy wing, the Office of Special Affairs (OSA). You’ve even infiltrated psychiatric facilities in order to feed information to Scientology’s most unhinged front group, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. […]

Mormon church sitting on $100 billion in reserves against tax law, says ex-employee

Fascinating report in the Washington Post today about the Mormon church having much more money than anyone seems to have […]

Scientology celebrated New Year’s Eve on Saturday, and once again we had someone there

Scientology leader David Miscavige welcomed in the new decade Saturday night at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles as the church, per its usual custom, celebrated New Year’s Eve a couple of weeks early so it could be filmed and then shown at its facilities around the world on the evening of December […]

Scientology trying to use its UN connections to fight its favorite bogeyman, psychiatry

Scientology has a new article from front group CCHR, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. For years Scientology has courted the United Nations as it fights attempts by governments to tax, regulate, or prosecute the church. In August we reported that a Scientology front group was granted Special Consultative Status by the UN. […]

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