Scientology Jurisprudence | The Underground Bunker

Scientologists facing felonies try ‘sovereign citizen’ gambit in tense L. A. court hearing

[Rizza Islam and his mother, Hanan]

Almost four years ago we broke the story here at the Underground Bunker of a wild criminal case developing in Los Angeles. A woman named Hanan Islam and three of her children and others were arrested and faced felony charges for running a multi-million dollar scam involving a jackleg Scientology […]

Another legal fight brewing over Scientology’s refusal to return future payments

[Benoit Levesque]

For several months now, we’ve been bringing you stunning examples of Scientology’s predatory financial behavior, with church staffers pressuring members, some of them elderly, to agree to outrageous charges on their credit. In each of the cases we’ve told you about, Los Angeles attorney Graham Berry was able to make those victims whole, convincing […]

Paging Graham Berry: Another Scientology horror story of credit fraud targeting retirees

[Some random Scientology staffers, here to help you with your credit cards.]

After Thursday’s story about the financial crimes that we’ve been covering here at the Bunker, we received a stunning message from a reader in the Midwest. She told us that she’d been reading the Bunker and thinking of reaching out to us for some […]

The FBI wants recent cases of Scientology fraud? We’ve got them right here, for crissakes

[A photo that should become a court exhibit]

Yesterday, Scientology and the Aftermath participant Aaron Smith-Levin posted a notice on Facebook about a Reuters reporter who was looking for recent examples of Scientology fraud. […]

Here’s the lawsuit against Scientology and Danny Masterson. Let’s dive into it.

A copy of the new Scientology lawsuit filed at the Los Angeles Superior Court has made its way to us, and we are reading it almost the same time as you are. Please help us go through this thing with a fine tooth comb, and let us know what you find […]

RAPE ACCUSERS SUE DANNY MASTERSON, CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY, AND ITS LEADER

[Bobette Riales, left, Chrissie Carnell with her husband, rocker Cedric Bixler Zavala]

The second big lawsuit from a powerful legal team assembled to take on the Church of Scientology has been filed, following up on the “Jane Doe” lawsuit in June that named the church and its leader David Miscavige […]

Powerful testimonies about child abuse in Scientology keep coming to light

[Victoria Locke]

You may have seen Victoria Locke on YouTube or over at Facebook. She’s been coming forward with some really shocking allegations of abuse while she was in Scientology, and she posted another stunning narrative […]

Scientologists behaving badly: What’s prison time to a trillion-year-old thetan?

We want to thank Mike Rinder for sending over the photo you see above, which he came across and thought we could use. […]

Scientologists in Texas neighborhood battle turn out to include Lori Hodgson’s daughter

[Jonathan and Jessica Davitt and their Austin home]

One of the consequences of Scientology’s toxic “disconnection” policy is that the people who are affected can go years between any news at all about the loved ones who have cut them out of their […]

Scientology uses actor Jason Dohring as bait in what ends up as a false imprisonment case

Actor Jason Dohring may still be recovering from his Veronica Mars character Logan Echolls being blown up at the end of the show’s recently-released fourth season, but perhaps now the Scientology actor will gain some notoriety for another […]

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