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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Trump accused: Key quotes from the Articles of Impeachment

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

Quick notes and quotes from the impeachment []

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George Gascón goes there: Elect him Los Angeles D.A., and Danny Masterson gets a fresh look

[D.A. candidate George Gascón and actor Danny Masterson]

Last week we told you what we were hearing from a source close to Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey, who has been silent about a three-year LAPD rape investigation of That ’70s Show actor and Scientologist Danny Masterson: If Masterson’s victims want justice, they’ll have to hope []

Jingle Bell Crock: LAPD cozies up to Scientology at its faux-Christmas shindig

[Scientology gives the LAPD a big check every year at holiday time]

“There was no Christ,” L. Ron Hubbard intoned during a 1968 lecture on the ship Apollo to his “Class VIII” students. And in earlier lectures, especially in 1953, just before Hubbard decided to create the first “Church of Scientology” corporation that December, Hubbard repeatedly []

Scientology’s biggest donors of late 2019: The whales giving millions to David Miscavige

 Yesterday, we showed you the lesser whales from this year’s big IAS spectacular that took place in October at Saint Hill Manor in East Grinstead, []

Sunday on ID: A documentary with questions about four Nxivm women who died

 A documentary film featuring blogger Frank Parlato, The Lost Women of NXIVM, will premiere on the Investigation Discovery channel tomorrow (Dec 8) at 9 pm. []

The rich donors keeping Scientology afloat at the end of 2019: Part 1, the lesser whales

[Swedish roofers, the Frykmans]

For the fourth and final time this year, Scientology has published a celebration of its wealthiest donors, and this one is the biggest, splashiest shindig of the whole year — the “International Association of Scientologists” (IAS) annual gala and “Patron’s Ball,” which is held in October in East Grinstead, []

Jackie Lacey insider: Unseat her in March if you want to see Danny Masterson charged

[Jackie Lacey and George Gascón]

We first broke the news that Scientologist actor Danny Masterson was being investigated by the LAPD on the rape allegations of three women in March 2017. The women had actually come forward the previous autumn, and the LAPD forwarded the case for prosecution to the LA District Attorney’s office in April []

This 2014 op-ed by Jonathan Turley shows just how full of it he is now

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

In 2014 Jonathan Turley wrote this 2014 Washington Post op-ed piece that’s a pretty accurate take in response to impeachment myths that Republicans had been floating regarding Obama’s implementation of the []

Give Scientology $500 and you too could be a ‘Harlem Homie’!

[Photo from this summer of the Harlem staff]

We told you recently that we’ve been digging through some really startling new document leaks from the Church of Scientology and from the FBI. We knew, poring through them, we were probably going to find some really fascinating things. But we weren’t prepared for this []

Danny Masterson is served rape lawsuit in papers delivered to his wife Bijou Phillips

[Danny Masterson and Bijou Phillips]

Acknowledging that their previous attempt to serve notice of a lawsuit to Scientologist actor Danny Masterson was flawed, attorneys for four women alleging that Masterson violently raped them got it right this time, dropping off the papers at Masterson’s own home in Santa Ynez, []