Dm Preparing To Be Indicted???(berry)

Q: On Monday December 15,1997,David Miscavige ,leader of the cult, commercial enterprise and political movement known as the church of scientology, rolled out another criminal defense attorney to represent him and his various corporate alter egos known as the corporations and churches of scientology,introduced an additional criminal defense attorney as part of his large inner circle of lawyers who are largely members of the white collar crime bar- or group of attorneys. Concerned that the sabre be rattled at the Los Angeles Daily Journal for daring to publish a priveleged and balanced report on the amendment of the judgment in Wollersheim! 1, Gerry Chaleff tried his hand at chilling first amendment rights.Gerry Chaleff is one of the most esteemed criminal defense attorneys in Los Angeles.He used to be a partner in Chaleff & English on Ocean Boulevard in Santa Monica. Recently the large and prestigous California law firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe decided to build a white collar crime practice group. They recruited Gerry Chaleff to head and build the white collar criminal defense group. Obviously,being retained by David Miscavige and the corporations and churches of scientology assures the firm of significant fee flow by a prompt paying enterprise such as the 'church'. In providing criminal defense expertise to the church,Gerry Chaleff joins Gerry Feffer of the pre-eminent Washington ,DC., criminal defense law firm of Williams & Connally.This team of church of scientology criminal defense attorneys is complimented by Los Angeles attorney Elliott Abelson who has been a long-time attorney to various members of the mafia and by New York attorney Martin Hertzberg who represented Mary Sue Hubbard in connection with the largest ever known infilitration of the United States Government for which nine(the DC 9) senior scientologists went to jail. Jack Quinn of the equally pre-eminent Washington,DC law firm of Arnold & Porter continues to round out this inner-scientology-circle of high powered criminal defense attorney talent.It was Jack Quinn who met with Bob Lewis and convinced him to remove me from scientology cases-because the church lawyers could not "deal" with me! His partner,Margaret Morrow , has been nominated to be a federal judge in Los Angeles.However, her nomination is stalled in the Senate but likely to go to the floor in February 1998.Previously,Howard Wietzman was also an attorney for the church.He successfully defended John DeLorean on major drug charges. Later he represented the cult against former cult attorney Joe Yanny who had resigned after refusing to follow cult orders to unlawfully obtain the medical records of anti- scientology attorney Charlie O'Reilly.All this church of scientology criminal defense fire - power is "run", in part, by Rev.Lynn Farney who is very much more than the lowly CSI secretary,or church mouse that he masquerades to be. I was once in a deposition with the immitable Joe Yanny who asked: "Why does a nice church, such as the church of scientology, need an intelligense organisation(OSA)? I now ask, why does the self-proclaimed technical,administrative and spiritual leader of the the self-proclaimed most ethical organization on the planet need not one but a whole assault force of attorneys specializing in the defense of white collar crime? Why would the legal concerns of any church leader require this sort of criminal-defense firepower?Do the major religions have even one such lawyer representing them on a constant basis-let alone an entire trans-continental team of attorneys specialising in the defense of persons and organizations engaged in patterns of racketeering and criminal acts! Employing a criminal defense attorney to try and shudder into silence a legal newspaper because of a priveleged news report of the amendment of the Wollersheim 1 judgment indicates a level and plateau of panic by the cult leaders ' belated realization that the dominos are falling,the cards crashing and "the bridge" collapsing after we partially destroyed it with the filing of the Fishman declaration.This is a bunker paranoia and pyschosis that , in past parallel situations, has been the pre- curser to organiational demise.. The assembly of such a large and powerful criminal defense team around David Miscavige leads to the inevitable and unanswerable question----why?why?why? Perhaps DM hears the rattle of indictments and the slamming of the jailhouse door.Something about deaths,suicide and psychosis! Then the simple explanation, and" acceptable truth", may well be that DM is a real little trail-blazer and that soon every church and cult, dangerous or otherwise, will be required by D & O Insurance policies to retain round- the - clock representation around the planet.Of course,Survival Insurance will be the broker.Oh, Mike 3, what is this shore story about Earthlink not being associated with the church of scientology?------what about the WISE connection ?

A: Is there some point down the road of turning CoS/RTC into an employment agency for lawyers, and specificically a legal defense fund to benefit CoS' top brass by protecting them from the consequences of their actions, before CoS' status as a tax-exempt "church" starts to come into question? Or does the fact that they're willing to spend so much on lawyers, cow the IRS from doing anything even if the cost of legal expenses goes over 50% of expenditures? One could argue that the legal expenses are already strangling the "mission" of scientology, as CoS is apparently letting the missions network collapse at a time it needs subsidies. The leadership seems so overtaken by their ivory tower mentality that they believe that media advertising is an adequate substitute, when I think Hubbard and the old-time missionaires realized that the only way to "sell" people on an experiential discipline like scientology is personal contact -- and intense followup -- with potential new recruits; and that the effective way to get people to travel to Flag or the LA orgs is to get them hooked first on locally available courses.

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