Karen#1
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TONY ORTEGA
Excerpt:
[Leah Remini and RTC lawyer Matthew Hinks]
We were there. We saw it happen. We were in the courtroom for a hearing in Leah Remini’s lawsuit a year ago when Scientology’s nominally controlling entity, the Religious Technology Center, objected to being a part of the case.
What followed was the classic Scientology legal gambit. Years ago, Denise Brennan told us, all of this was anticipated when L. Ron Hubbard in the early 1980s had Scientology reorganized into dozens of nested entities, an alphabet soup with names like CSI, RTC, ASI, CST, etc.
It was hard to keep track of who was in charge, and that was the point. Those who worked for him will tell you that there’s no question who’s running things: David Miscavige is a ruthless micro-manager who obsesses over every detail, especially in retaliation operations against former members. And he does it as the “chairman of the board” of the Religious Technology Center.
But when Scientology is challenged legally, it whines and cries in court that David Miscavige is only the “ecclesiastical” leader of Scientology, that RTC is only about maintaining the “purity” of the tech, and that it would never get its hands dirty with something as sordid as a smear campaign against someone like Leah Remini.
And in that courtroom in January 2024, we watched as RTC’s attorneys argued to Judge Randolph Hammock that RTC had no business being sued by Leah and should be let out of the lawsuit because Leah herself had alleged nothing specific about RTC in her complaint.
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We were there. We saw it happen. We were in the courtroom for a hearing in Leah Remini’s lawsuit a year ago when Scientology’s nominally controlling entity, the Religious Technology Center, objected to being a part of the case.
What followed was the classic Scientology legal gambit. Years ago, Denise Brennan told us, all of this was anticipated when L. Ron Hubbard in the early 1980s had Scientology reorganized into dozens of nested entities, an alphabet soup with names like CSI, RTC, ASI, CST, etc.
It was hard to keep track of who was in charge, and that was the point. Those who worked for him will tell you that there’s no question who’s running things: David Miscavige is a ruthless micro-manager who obsesses over every detail, especially in retaliation operations against former members. And he does it as the “chairman of the board” of the Religious Technology Center.
But when Scientology is challenged legally, it whines and cries in court that David Miscavige is only the “ecclesiastical” leader of Scientology, that RTC is only about maintaining the “purity” of the tech, and that it would never get its hands dirty with something as sordid as a smear campaign against someone like Leah Remini.
And in that courtroom in January 2024, we watched as RTC’s attorneys argued to Judge Randolph Hammock that RTC had no business being sued by Leah and should be let out of the lawsuit because Leah herself had alleged nothing specific about RTC in her complaint.
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Piling on: Scientology's RTC adds to appeal in Leah Remini lawsuit
We were there.
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