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Actress Tricia Vessey and civil RICO added to Scientology lawsuit in proposed new complaint
Chrissie Carnell Bixler, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Jane Doe #1, Bobette Riales, Jane Doe #2, and Tricia Vessey hereby allege against The Church of Scientology International, Religious Technology Center, and Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International (collectively, the “Corporate Defendants”); and David Miscavige, Daniel Masterson, and DOES 1–25 (collectively, the “Individual Defendants”) as follows:
INTRODUCTION
1. The Defendants are members of a criminal enterprise within Scientology. That criminal enterprise includes many individuals, including the Individual Defendants, and a number of corporate entities, including the Corporate Defendants.
2. Defendant David Miscavige is the undisputed and unquestioned leader of this criminal enterprise and derives significant financial benefit from Scientology’s criminal and unlawful activity.
3. Scientology was devised by L. Ron Hubbard, a science-fiction author who was dissatisfied with the income that vocation provided him. As his wife explained, Hubbard believed that “‘[t]he only way to make any real money was to have religion.’ That’s essentially what he [Hubbard] was trying to do . . . Get a religion where he could have an income and the government wouldn’t take it away from him in the form of taxes.” A science-fiction associate of Hubbard’s similarly recounted that Hubbard believed “the only way to make a million dollars was to form your own religion.”
4. Scientology’s self-described governing philosophy is “MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY.”
5. Many of Scientology’s criminal enterprise’s money-making schemes are criminal in nature; it routinely and systematically engages in fraud, human trafficking, identify theft, and money laundering to fill its coffers and enrich its leadership.
6. Scientology’s criminal enterprise also makes money by selling pseudo-scientific “auditing sessions.” Scientology’s criminal enterprise claims these sessions “bring people from a condition of spiritual blindness to spiritual existence” and that they cure arthritis, dermatitis, asthma, coronary difficulties, eye trouble, bursitis, ulcers, sinusitis, cancer, and any number of other physical ailments. As befits such lofty (purported) results, customers who purchase the entire course of auditing sessions spend upwards of $500,000.
7. As with many criminal enterprises, Scientology’s takes steps to protect itself and its co-conspirators from governmental authorities. Scientology’s criminal enterprise takes a two-faced approach to protecting its criminal activities: it simultaneously presents an innocuous front to the public while terrorizing any who speak out about its unlawful activity in order to intimidate them and dissuade them from seeking protection from law enforcement or from cooperating with governmental authorities.
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