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TONY ORTEGA
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It’s been more than seven years since we first broke the news at the Underground Bunker that several Scientologists were facing felony charges for an elaborate scheme to defraud California’s Medi-Cal health insurance.
According to state investigators, the scheme was run out of a rehab called “American Health and Education Clinics” at the World Literacy Crusade, a notorious Scientology front operation in Compton, California. Hanan Islam (who had founded AHEC), three of her children, two other counselors at the rehab, and three local high school educators were all arrested and charged.
The scheme allegedly made use of unwitting high school students who were put through a Narconon program (Scientology’s brand of rehab) — even though they didn’t have drug problems — so the state could be fraudulently billed.
The high school educators who supplied those students to the scheme lost their jobs, two of Hanan’s children pleaded guilty, and Hanan herself died of cancer last year while awaiting trial.
That leaves only her son, Ronnie “Rizza” Islam, 33, still facing charges. And after years of delays, jury selection for his trial begins today at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, just down the hall on the ninth floor where the Danny Masterson rape trial ended on May 31 with his conviction.
Unlike Masterson’s two trials, which were heavy with testimony about Scientology, we don’t expect that Scientology will be mentioned very much during Rizza Islam’s trial. At a preliminary hearing during which the scheme was laid out in detail, Scientology didn’t get mentioned.
But still, we’re interested in how this proceeding goes, and Jeffrey Augustine, who attended that preliminary hearing, will be going to the trial and sending us reports.
Over the weekend, Rizza and his attorney Jeremy McLymont let it be known that Rizza remains defiant and sees his prosecution as politically motivated. McLymont put out an eye-opening press release that we thought you’d want to see…
tonyortega.substack.com
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It’s been more than seven years since we first broke the news at the Underground Bunker that several Scientologists were facing felony charges for an elaborate scheme to defraud California’s Medi-Cal health insurance.
According to state investigators, the scheme was run out of a rehab called “American Health and Education Clinics” at the World Literacy Crusade, a notorious Scientology front operation in Compton, California. Hanan Islam (who had founded AHEC), three of her children, two other counselors at the rehab, and three local high school educators were all arrested and charged.
The scheme allegedly made use of unwitting high school students who were put through a Narconon program (Scientology’s brand of rehab) — even though they didn’t have drug problems — so the state could be fraudulently billed.
The high school educators who supplied those students to the scheme lost their jobs, two of Hanan’s children pleaded guilty, and Hanan herself died of cancer last year while awaiting trial.
That leaves only her son, Ronnie “Rizza” Islam, 33, still facing charges. And after years of delays, jury selection for his trial begins today at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, just down the hall on the ninth floor where the Danny Masterson rape trial ended on May 31 with his conviction.
Unlike Masterson’s two trials, which were heavy with testimony about Scientology, we don’t expect that Scientology will be mentioned very much during Rizza Islam’s trial. At a preliminary hearing during which the scheme was laid out in detail, Scientology didn’t get mentioned.
But still, we’re interested in how this proceeding goes, and Jeffrey Augustine, who attended that preliminary hearing, will be going to the trial and sending us reports.
Over the weekend, Rizza and his attorney Jeremy McLymont let it be known that Rizza remains defiant and sees his prosecution as politically motivated. McLymont put out an eye-opening press release that we thought you’d want to see…
Rizza Islam defiant as his trial on Medi-Cal fraud begins today
It’s been more than seven years since we first broke the news at the Underground Bunker that several Scientologists were facing felony charges for an elaborate scheme to defraud California’s Medi-Cal health insurance.
tonyortega.substack.com
