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FELONY RAPS FOR SCIENTOLOGISTS RUNNING L.A. REHAB SCAM WITH CORRUPT EDUCATORS

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State agency investigating Medi-Cal fraud raided drug rehab center in March 2014

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Three Compton educators — including coach of legendary football program — fired for supplying students for fake claims

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Notorious Scientology front World Literacy Crusade involved, director Hanan Islam charged

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 By Tony Ortega

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Today in L.A.: Can Scientology kill a forced-abortion lawsuit in the name of religion?

[Judge Rolf M. Treu]

 UPDATE: …and the judge punts. Judge Treu has ordered a continuation “to permit amended papers.” Well, Laura has waited six years, what’s a little longer, eh Judge? Today’s hearing will just be about scheduling. Details below.

The Underground Bunker will have correspondents on hand today at a Los Angeles Superior Court hearing scheduled []

Who are those WISE guys? A tipster helps us get some names of Scientology operatives

 On Thursday, we told you about a woman who is suing a business in Pasadena that forced her to take Scientology courses, and when she refused, she was []

SCIENTOLOGY DENIED: APPEAL SHOT DOWN AFTER YEARLONG WAIT

 After more than a year since an oral hearing was held in the case, the Texas Third Court of Appeals has finally ruled in Monique Rathbun’s favor, denying the Church of Scientology’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling. []

Jonny Jacobsen: Reflecting on the first week of Scientology’s criminal trial in Belgium

We asked our man in Paris, Jonny Jacobsen, to give us some thoughts from his notebook about his first week covering Scientology’s criminal trial in Brussels. (That’s him with your proprietor this July.) Here’s his attempt to catch us up on what’s been happening…

Just recovering from the first week’s coverage of the trial and trying []

Scientology cries religious discrimination in appeal brief filed in Maryland zoning fight

In June, Scientology suffered an embarrassing defeat courtesy of the Frederick County Council in Maryland. You probably remember the drama as the council denied Scientology’s request that a 40-acre parcel of land it had purchased in 2013, known as “Trout Run,” be put on the county’s list of historic places. Why did Scientology care that []

Laura DeCrescenzo answers Scientology ‘religion’ gambit on eve of key hearing

Less than seven weeks away from a trial she’s been awaiting more than six years, Laura DeCrescenzo has to get over yet another hurdle this week placed in her way by the Church of Scientology.

Laura sued Scientology in 2009 claiming that she’d been abused in the church’s Sea Organization, and that she’d been forced to []

‘Darth Xander’ files motion challenging Scientology’s anti-protesting injunction

 On Friday, Illinois attorney Alex Hageli, better known by his nom de guerre “Darth Xander,” filed a motion with the Pinellas County Circuit Court in Florida asking to dissolve the permanent injunction that the Church of Scientology managed to get against the Lisa McPherson Trust back in []

With a trial looming in 6-year forced-abortion lawsuit, Scientology cries ‘but we’re a religion!’

Laura DeCrescenzo

In 2013, the Underground Bunker provided live coverage as Laura DeCrescenzo’s forced-abortion lawsuit survived a major challenge by the Church of Scientology. Laura sued the church in 2009 because she alleges that she was abused as a “Sea Org” worker who, for example, was made to work 90-hour weeks for pennies an []

How Scientology sets up its members to find themselves helpless in court

We’ve provided a lot of detailed, step-by-step coverage of numerous lawsuits involving the Church of Scientology in recent years. They tend to involve large dollar amounts (as in the case of the Garcias, who say they were defrauded of about $440,000), or years of abuse (as in the case of Laura DeCrescenzo), or major legal []