Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:00 pm by outlander
Found a new website "scientology-cult.com" that seems to be written by exes that were pretty highly placed staffers.
It refreshes my memory of things long forgotten, including DM's mismanagement of oil and gas investments, loosing tens of millions of dollars of LRH's estate, and then the creation of special "art" properties, increadibly highly priced and of no long term value. I had forgotten seeing ASI and other higher ups cornering anyone with money, including Sea Org members who may have received an inheritence, selling these "properties" and then pocketing 10% commission.
I remember DM talking about comissions, and that he was getting splits on comissions with staff for just walking in the room. I wonder if he still does this, and if it is hidden.
Here is the article from "scientology-cult.com"
"Selling Soft-Core Porn
Miscavige has been making a great deal of money from parishioner donations for years. That is why his “best friend” is Tom Cruise. By subsidizing Scientology with donations, wealthy Scientologists are unintentionally and unknowingly bank rolling Miscavige himself and thereby contributing to the destruction of thousands of lives of honest Sea Org staff members.
Since the 1980s, Miscavige’s income has been well over $100,000 a year. While the rest of us in the Sea Org made somewhere in the neighborhood of 35 cents a hour. A friend of mine who used to work in RTC told me that when she started, she received a Christmas bonus of $9,000. She felt guilty about it since regular Sea Org members only make $2,300 a year if they are lucky. When she tried to return it, she was told it had to be that big or else Miscavige’s bonus would look "out of proportion to the IRS." She was told, if you don't want to do it for yourself, do it for Miscavige.
But Miscavige doesn’t just get paid in cash. He receives tremendous volumes of camera equipment, motorcycles, cars and buildings for his personal use. He himself built a gigantic building “for RTC” costing millions that today stands empty in Gilman Hot Springs.
Financial crimes are old hand to Miscavige. In the early 1980s when L. Ron Hubbard was still alive, Miscavige secretly took over the management of LRH assets and promptly lost $30,000,000 in the oil industry. Miscavige’s solution was to invent a series of “collectible prints” -- paintings by Frank Frazetta, etc., of semi-nude women with huge breasts -- and he had Author Services Inc. (ASI) sell these to Scientologists. In other words, Miscavige tricked Scientologists across the world and literally made them pay for his mistake. Even in the early 1980s, Scientologists were paying as much as a million dollars a week for "collectible" prints with no real value. LRH never knew.
Isn’t it kind of odd when the de-facto leader of a church starts peddling soft-core porn in lieu of Church services?"
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