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 loses appeal to block bank records that could be more damaging than his tax returns

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

[Regarding this article: Trump loses appeal to block Deutsche Bank, Capital One from handing over his financial records to Congress]

Yet another court (Second Circuit Court of Appeals) rules against Trump’s attempt to prevent disclosure of his financial records, here Capitol One and []

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Scientologist says the church is telling Clearwater members not to vote for Mark Bunker

[Mark Bunker and Pat Harney]

One of our readers in Clearwater, Florida describes themselves as someone who recently began having doubts about the organization and for a few weeks has been looking around the Internet about Scientology, including this []

Trump whines about being left out of inquiry, but then turns down chance to participate

[Trump and Nadler]

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

So Trump has declined Jerry Nadler’s invitation to participate in the next phase of the impeachment inquiry, scheduled to commence this week, which isn’t all that surprising since actually participating would undermine their argument that the inquiry was a sham []

TWO MORE WOMEN COME FORWARD TO LAPD WITH DANNY MASTERSON RAPE ALLEGATIONS

[Danny Masterson in 2003]

The Underground Bunker has learned that two additional women have identified themselves as rape victims of Scientologist celebrity Danny Masterson and have spoken to the Los Angeles Police Department as part of its ongoing investigation of the That ’70s Show actor, bringing to six the number of women who are cooperating with []

Would Republicans stick to the ‘Garland Rule’ if Trump were on his way out?

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

[Regarding this NY Times story: Why Republicans will sidestep their Garland Rule for the Court in 2020]

If a SCOTUS vacancy opened on the morning a Democrat president-elect was to be sworn in, the outgoing Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate wouldn’t hesitate to []

Scientology amps up shattering suppression in the wake of Leah Remini’s onslaught

 In the past year we have seen an increase in the number of Scientologists taking the How To Confront And Shatter Suppression – PTS/SP Course. It’s been a required course for years and one that many members have done repeatedly but now we learn it’s been revised again, this time with more “clay demos.” It []

Guy White opens his big mouth: The former Hubbard family member spills on Scientology!

 It was great that Guy White, ex-husband to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s daughter Suzette and father to their three children, decided to go public with his life in and out of Scientology, and in a big way. He got a big Daily Mail piece, and within hours we published our own interview with him. []

Scientology moves to dismiss the ‘Jane Doe’ lawsuit in Miami, and we have the docs

[Proof that David Miscavige has done business in Miami]

We’ve told you how Scientology has reacted to the first two of three big lawsuits filed against it this year, and now we have some new documents showing how they’re reacting to the []

On this Thanksgiving, we’re thankful again for people we will never forget

 In 2013, the Church of Scientology slaughtered a couple of innocent live oak trees that had been standing in the way of a party the church wanted to throw []

The rapey Danny Masterson movie clip someone doesn’t want you to see

 Last week, one of our readers noticed quite accidentally that at Ranker.com, there’s a page that ranks Danny Masterson movies. Can you []