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Danny Masterson jurors complain of contact by defense team, DA wants hearing for sanctions

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Judge Olmedo and the LA DA’s Office are both concerned about repeated contacts of the jurors in Danny Masterson’s second trial by members of Masterson’s legal team. Judge Olmedo says the law may have []

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Scientology ruins everything — even a massive onion farm in England

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: UK readers sent us links to stories that popped up there about a court decision involving Scientology and an onion farmer. We asked our friend Apostate Alex if he had heard anything about it, []

Scientology school in LA sued over cover-up of coach imprisoned for sex abuse

[Randolph Jackson and the Delphi Academy in LA]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We remember this terrible story from 2017, when a coach went to prison for abusing kids at a charter school — but only after he had done []

Swiss trial pitting two Scientology mega-donors against each other opens today

[Ivan Gaspari, left, faces a criminal trial based on allegations by Trish Duggan, right]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology ‘Diamond Meritorious’ ($5 million) donor Ivan Gaspari is on trial today in Lugano, Switzerland, accused of stealing $7 million from []

Michele Fiore guilty on all counts, and Scientology link proven at trial

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: You may have seen the news yesterday, that former Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore was found guilty on federal charges. But her trial also featured documentary evidence of something we’ve been saying a []

David Minkoff’s Scientology quackery: the psychiatrist expert’s assessment

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Last week we looked at allegations against notorious Scientology doctor David Minkoff in a wrongful-death lawsuit and a physician’s expert opinion. But this is a case about mental health, so today we have the []

David Minkoff, Scientology doctor: The expert’s report on his failure to care for Whitney Mills

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yesterday we told you that Scientology donor Dr. David Minkoff has been added as a defendant in the Whitney Mills wrongful-death case, and there were references to experts who were consulted. We thought you’d []

Notorious Scientology doc David Minkoff added to lawsuit in Whitney Mills death

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Leila Mills yesterday filed an amended complaint in her lawsuit regarding the 2022 death of her daughter Whitney Mills, adding Dr. David Minkoff and his Clearwater clinic to the Church of Scientology defendants. We []

Some recent cases remind us that Scientology tactics are all around us

[It’s a world of grift and we just live in it]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Readers often send us stories that only tangentially relate to Scientology or evoke Scientology’s well-known tactics. We wonder: Is it that Scientology’s thuggish ways []

Scientology operatives and attorneys trying to end a medical industry

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Although our @thedailybeast piece about Scientology’s litigation war on the psychiatric profession was lengthy, there was even more we couldn’t fit in. And we figured Bunker readers would be interested, because it involves the []