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CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION COVERUP 1A reward of $100,000 is being offered by the Church of Scientology® for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individuals responsible for the coverup and protection of the perpetrators of an attempted $2 million fraud.
Information gathered to date by Church of Scientology investigators working under the supervision of Church attorney John Peterson includes the following:
In 1982, an attempt was made to pass a counterfeit check drawn on a Bank of New England account of L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the religion of Scientology. Bank officials reported the attempted forgery to the FBI and also hired their own private investigators.
The bank’s investigators consulted a lawyer named Michael Flynn for leads on the perpetrators of the crime. Flynn, an avowed enemy of the Church and Scientology’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard, accused Scientologists™ of committing the forgery.
As Church investigators later learned, within days after the unsuccessful attempt to pass the forged check, Flynn also discussed the incident with Glenn Prinsze, the New York FBI agent assigned to the case.
Prinsze later advised a bank official that “nothing much” was being done on the investigation.
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION
The Church of Scientology, baffled by the FBI’s lack of interest in the matter and unaware at that time of Flynn’s involvement with the FBI in the investigation, hired its own team of private investigators, headed by Eugene Ingram, to conduct an independent investigation.
Ingram’s investigation lasted for more than a year and ranged from Boston to New York, on to Florida, back to Washington, D.C., and overseas to Italy, the United Arab Emirates and back to the U.S.
By June 1984, Ingram’s team had found what was believed to be the majority of individuals involved in the fraud and had obtained exhaustive documentation and corroborative affidavits and evidence.
The scheme began to unravel when two men signed full confessions detailing not only their own but also others’ involvement in the crime.
According to a sworn statement by a man well-known in Boston for similar scams, he was hired to coordinate the counterfeiting, forging and passing of the check. This man said the meeting was arranged by a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Justice Department veteran.
To execute the scheme, the man hired to do the scam used his brother, who has also provided a witnessed confession. The brother tried to pass the phony Bank of New England check at the Middle East Bank in New York City. However, he panicked when asked for identification and fled the bank, leaving the check behind.
According to the two brothers, they fled the scene. Meanwhile, Flynn tried to turn the incident to his advantage by claiming that the Scientologists were behind the scheme.
Accusing the Scientologists also fit a plan that Flynn had created as early as 1979 to initiate a media and legal assault on the Church. Documents filed in court reveal that Flynn claimed that he had succeeded in involving individuals from federal agencies, including the IRS and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and that he planned to use government agencies in the assault on Scientology and its founder.
Despite the evidence that federal officials might be linked in a conspiracy, Church officials felt that the year-long investigation had produced enough evidence — especially witnessed confessions — to result in a grand jury.
They compiled the massive amount of documentation, including corroborative affidavits from others involved in the crime, and turned it over to the Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston on July 11, 1984.
MYSTERIOUS EVENTS
Seldom are federal prosecutors presented with such an array of already-prepared, documented evidence, in a case where the charges could involve the federal crimes of counterfeiting, forgery, obstruction of justice, concealing evidence, wire fraud, extortion, embezzlement, and interstate transportation of stolen goods, among others.
Oddly, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brackett Denniston III was not grateful for the evidence that had been provided to him.Before even studying the documentation, he questioned the motives of the people who had done the work.
Nevertheless, representatives of the Church of Scientology were determined to see that the crimes were fully investigated by the proper authorities, and therefore they continued meeting with Boston representatives of the Justice Department and the FBI.
The investigators received indications that a grand jury would be convened in the near future.
Then a strange thing happened.
A short time later, a man contacted Church investigators and, in a taped interview, incriminated himself in the check forgery plot.
The man, of Brookline, Massachusetts, claimed he was actually the mastermind behind the check scam, “and repeatedly alleged that Michael Flynn was not involved.
Church investigators were puzzled by this new, lone “confession.”
When they thoroughly investigated the man, they discovered that he was actually a federal informant who was awaiting sentencing for his third felony conviction at the time that he made his “confession.”
This turn of events reached bizarre proportions when, two weeks later, the man admitted to a reliable source that his “confession” had been a complete fabrication, and that he actually had no involvement in the $2 million check fraud at all!
It appears to Church investigators that the informant may have been counting on individuals in the government to recommend a light sentence, and may even have been persuaded to approach the Church investigators with his trumped-up confession in an attempt to throw the Scientologists off the trail.
Months after the exhaustive documentation had been provided to Assistant U.S. Attorney Denniston in Boston, Church investigators recontacted all of the substantiating witnesses and discovered that they had still not been officially interviewed.
Church investigators, in fact, were brusquely advised by an individual in the FBI Fraud Division to cease their investigation in Boston lest their actions be construed as “obstructing justice.”
Ironically, the reported government informant was recently given a reduced sentence of two years, although the law calls for up to 32 years in prison for the felonies he had committed prior to his false confession. Was this a reward for his attempt to throw Church investigators off the track?
When the informant was served with a subpoena by Church attorneys, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston refused to cooperate in producing him for questioning concerning his false confession.
Documentation indicating criminal activities on the part of several individuals, including sworn statements by a number of the participants in the alleged crime, has, mysteriously, not been sufficient to persuade the Justice Department to investigate these individuals, much less prosecute them.
Investigators for the Church of Scientology would like to know why officials of the Department of Justice do not want the mystery of the attempted $2 million check forgery to be resolved as soon as possible.
INFORMATION WANTED
A reward of $100,000 is available for anyone with documented or readily documentable information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those guilty of what appears to be a criminal coverup of a felony.
Others are invited to come forward with any information they may have regarding similar instances of unequal protection ,under the law on the part of individuals within the Department of Justice or other government agencies.
Identities will be protected upon request.
Direct all communication to:
Eugene M. Ingram, Private Investigator
Ingram Investigations, California License #AA9387
4343 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90029
(213) 666-5775
(Collect calls will be accepted.)Church of Scientology® of California
1985 Church of Scientology of California. Scientology and Scientologist are trademarks owned by the Religious Technology Center and are used with its permission.
Notes
- This document in PDF format. ↩
OSA Press Release (October 23, 1984)
Source “PR Newswire”
Author Sanford Block
Date October 23rd, 19841LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23/PRN – A lawsuit seeking more than $ 20 million in damages
was filed today in Los Angeles Federal Court by two churches of Scientology, charging
that Boxford, Mass., lawyer Michael Flynn; his brother Kevin Flynn; his partner, lawyer
Thomas Hoffman; and other defendants conspired to violate the civil rights of the
churches, according to church attorney Donald C. Randolph.Randolph charged that the defendants engaged in a “malicious conspiracy” against the
Church of Scientology. Randolph said this included:– the unlawful communication of knowingly false or misleading information to state and
federal law enforcement agencies;– numerous false statements against the churches in lawsuits throughout the country; and
– an extensive media campaign to disseminate false information about the churches.
The complaint also alleges that the defendants boasted “of their coordination and close
relationships” with government agents in carrying out their personal vendetta against the
churches.These agents include representatives of the IRS, the FBI, and the Department of Justice,
who have all been involved in litigation with the church for almost a decade, Randolph
said.The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, asks for
more than $10 million in 9 compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages,
Randolph said. The claims were brought based on alleged violations of the Civil Rights
Act of 1871, he continued.The churches’ 48-page complaint details what Randolph described as “an ongoing
conspiracy, stretching back at last five years.”Randolph added that “the nature and extent of the conspiracy is documented in full detail
in papers regarding ‘Famco’ (Flynn Associates Management Corp.), a corporation
created by the conspirators to forward their campaign and in numerous other documents,
as well as eyewitness accounts.”Randolph said, “This broad-based conspiracy undertook to purposely manipulate the state
through unlawful activities and ultimately to destroy a religion.”Randolph said: “This lawsuit is important for the preservation of religious freedom, not
only for the Scientologists but for people of all faiths who cherish their right to exist and
worship without unlawful interference. This action seeks to terminate the antireligious
activities and to send a warning to their imitators.”Contact – Donald C. Randolph or Sanford Block at 213-474-6020 and 213-662-9431 for
the Church of Scientology.
Notes
- Retrieved on September 22, 2014 from www.xenufrance.net/osa-so-called-press-releases-year-1984.pdf ↩
OSA INT ED 19 “Squirrels” (September 20, 1984)
E X E C U T I V E D I R E C T I V E
OSA INT ED 191
ALL SCIENTOLOGISTS
PUBLIC NOTICE BOARD
STAFF NOTICE BOARD20 September 1984
SQUIRRELS
___________The following people have demonstrated that they cannot be trusted with the religion of Scientology or Scientologists. Their actions are destructive and aimed at the enslavement rather than the freedom of man.
Dede Voegeding
Kima Douglas
Gerry Armstrong
John Nelson
Laurel Sullivan
David MayoThe above named squirrels have attempted to taint government with their false reports.
They have deliberately held policy up to scorn and altered such policies to suit their own destructive end.
Some of these squirrels have offered false testimony to the IRS in order to protect their overts against mankind and their only road out of this universe.
Several of them have misrepresented Scientology practices to the FBI or Justice Department in a futile attempt to taint the minds of the government and the courts against the Church of Scientology.
They have supported psychiatric aims and principles over Scientology principles in their misrepresentations to Department of Justice representatives as well as Boston lawyer Michael Flynn.
They have turned from ethical and moral Scientology principles by demanding no ethics be applied to them or by them.
Several of them have spoken out against Scientologists in good standing to the IRS in a hope that they might escape from their own destructive acts and shift attention from themselves and their crimes.
They have altered and assisted in the alteration of Tech in an attempt to seal off the bridge to those who have fallen prey to their destructive intentions.
Their continual harmful acts to themselves and their continued desire to drag others to the level of beasts and animals devoid of spiritual qualities places them in the psychiatric camp of those who manufacture madness for profit.
Therefore, be it known that these acts of spiritual destruction and cries for no ethics, no morals, and no policy, have separated them from the body of the ethical and practicing Scientologists of this planet.
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Dedicated Scientologists need not support them until they have fully recanted and fully fulfilled all of the requirements of the Ethics and Justice PLs dealing with suppressives and suppressive acts.
This ED is written that those who are not informed as to the acts of those named above may now be so informed.
It is written so that those who are not Scientologists may be warned that these individuals do not represent the Church or the religion of Scientology in any capacity.
Their only terminal is the International Justice Chief.
CO OSA INT2
Authorized by
AVC INTfor the
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL
CSI:AVCI:COOSAI:ts
(c) 1984 CSI
All Right Reserved3
Notes
- This document in PDF format. ↩
- Probably Mike Sutter. ↩
- See also: Armstrong Comments on OSA ED INT 19 SQUIRRELS ↩
FBI File #336: Letter from John D. Stanard to FBI (September 12, 1984)
Anonymous 25/08/1998FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI 3361
From the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of
Justice, Washington, D.C. Please archive. Previous files are archived at
http://www.xenu.net************
[this letter is undated, but the FBI stamped it SEP 12 1984]
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLGOY
NATIONAL PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE
2125 S ST., N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20008
(202)-797-9828FOUNDER:
L. RON HUBBARDre: Church of Scientology
Dear Sir,
Enclosed is information for your files relative to Church of Scientology,
Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard.The subject of the enclosed has been know [sic] to have made numerous
contacts with federal agencies and to have disseminated false and
misleading information about the Church. Even if you or your agency has
had no contact with this individual his continuing pattern of
dissemination of such questionable information would indicate a
possibility that you could be sent such information in the future.In any event, I ask that you include this material in your files.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[signed]
Rev. John D. Stanard III
Director“A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where
the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where Man is
free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.” Copyright
(c) 1965, 1984, by L. Ron Hubbard, Founder of Scientology*******
[Enclosed with this letter is a series of articles from “Freedom, The
Independent Journal Published by the Church of Scientology”, Issue 61,
starting on page 1. There is no legible date on any of these articles but
the issue is copyrighted 1984. All articles are from the same issue.
They are as follows:1) “Boston Attorneys Linked to Underworld in Plot to Loot Hubbard Estate”,
page 1, no author listed; a many page article describing attorney Michael
Flynn’s alleged attempt to “loot the personal estate of New York Times
list best-selling author L. Ron Hubbard and blame it on the Church of
Scientology” by using the “estranged, disinherited son of … L. Ron
Hubbard” and forged checks.2) “FAMCO: Anatomy of a Conspiracy”, by Stacy Young, page 1; describes the
formation and purpose of Flynn Associates Management Corporation, whose
alleged purpose was to destroy the Church with numerous expensive
lawsuits;3) “Documenting the Conspiracy”, page 2, no author listed; appears to be
comment from the editor and describes contents of this issue and the next;4) “Freedom Special Supplement: Co-conspirators Finger Flynn in $2 Million
Forgery Scheme”, page 5, no author listed, large portions of this article
are blacked out but this was done by Freedom and not the FBI. This is a
complete’ version of an affidavit obtained in Italy by Gene Ingram from
Ala Fadili Al Tamimi and his brother Akil Abdul Amir Al Fadili Al Tamimi
in which the Tamimis allege they were hired by the Flynns to forge and
pass a bad check on Hubbard’s bank account. According to the introduction
to the article: “certain names in the affidavits have been blocked out.
For the purpose of authenticity, expletives that would not normally appear
in FREEDOM have been retained”, so it is not possible to identify anyone
who could corroborate the Tamimis account.5) “Blossoms Owner Hides Controversial Past. Alleged Civil Rights Culprit
Gains Federal Funding”, by John Lawrence, page 13; article about Kevin
Flynn and his Washington, D.C. restaurant Blossoms which was initially
funded with a Small Business Administration loan; the articles implies
that Kevin Flynn made false statements on his SBA applicationNames mentioned in these articles include attorney Michael J. Flynn, his
brother Kevin Flynn, Cheryl Flynn (wife of Kevin), Lavenda Van Shaick
(former member), Gene Ingram (a Los Angeles private investigator), Heber
Jentzsch, Wayne Hollingsworth, Ala Fadili Al Tamimi (a forger allegedly
hired by Flynn and whose 29 page affidavit is included in #4 above,
although heavily censored), John Clark (Massachusetts psychiatrist), and
Ronald E. DeWolf (son of L. Ron Hubbard). The articles claim to expose
and provide evidence for various criminal acts by Michael Flynn, Kevin
Flynn, Ala Tamimi, and Ronald DeWolf in an attempt to “loot Hubbard’s
estate”, steal from the federal government, extort money from Scientology,
and “cure people of their religious convictions” through deprogramming.
Because doing so would violate copyright, these articles will not be
reproduced here.]**********
Notes
- Retrieved 22 September 22, 2014 from alt.religion.scientology. ↩