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]

ProPublica: Records suggest Trump has committed fraud even into his presidency

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

[In regards to this story: Never-Before-Seen Trump Tax Documents Show Major Inconsistencies]

This seems big-ish. ProPublica evidently obtained either the tax returns or tax summaries for Trump’s NY businesses over the past 8 or so years and you probably won’t be surprised to […]

Tom Cruise at the IAS gala with his kids Connor and Isabella? We think it’s likely.

Is this our best evidence that Tom Cruise, was, in fact, at Saturday night’s Scientology Patron’s Ball at Saint Hill Manor in East Grinstead, […]

Doomsday family lived in basement for 9 years waiting for the end of the world

Very disturbing and confusing story coming out of the Netherlands today about a group of seven people who have been living in a farm’s basement for the past nine years waiting for the world to […]

Edward Snowden: Attorney General Bill Barr doesn’t want you using encryption

Interesting piece by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in today’s Guardian, warning about the US government (with UK and Australian backup) fighting against Facebook’s plans to extend end-to-end encryption to Messenger and […]

The White House is bluffing when it threatens witnesses over ‘executive privilege’

[Fiona Hill]

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

The White House has been thuggishly waving around what it calls “executive privilege” like the sword of Damocles over the heads of testifying witnesses before Congress, such as the recently resigned Fiona […]

Xenu-giving: We check the crowd at Scientology’s biggest org on a day of thanks

[Phil and Willie Jones]

It was a nice Saturday afternoon so Willie and I decided to take a little drive in the country. We thought we’d swing by the Cambridge Org and see how things were going for their Canadian Thanksgiving […]

Ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses, ex-Scientologists hail new California sex-assault law

We’re seeing a lot of people who oppose groups like Scientology and Jehovah’s Witnesses celebrating today after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB […]