Karen#1
Well-known member
Excerpt:
Earlier this year we told you about a bizarre situation, a legal battle between major Scientology donors, and in Switzerland of all places.
We were regularly getting calls from the jail in Lugano, a city in the Italian-speaking part of that small country from a man named Ivan Gaspari, who has been incarcerated there since June 2023.
The really strange thing, at least from an American perspective, is that Gaspari was in jail based on accusations made by a private third party, and not because of the initiative of local law enforcement. And even stranger, that accuser was not Swiss but an American, Trish Duggan, the richest donor in Scientology, who has given the church something approaching half a billion dollars over the years.
Gaspari, backed up by documents we obtained, explained that after he had come to Scientology’s spiritual mecca in Clearwater, Florida in 2016, he was approached by Duggan (through her money manager Osman Ozsan) with a business proposition. Gaspari was a steel trader who had done very well for himself, and he had achieved the status of “Diamond Meritorious” for donating a cumulative $5 million to the IAS, Scientology’s membership organization.
Gaspari said that Duggan proposed to invest $20 million in him by creating a new company so they could super-size his profits for even bigger donations to the church. But then, Duggan and her Scientologist attorney Steven Hayes accused Gaspari of mismanaging the new company and skimming profits, and alleged that $7 million was missing.
tonyortega.substack.com
Earlier this year we told you about a bizarre situation, a legal battle between major Scientology donors, and in Switzerland of all places.
We were regularly getting calls from the jail in Lugano, a city in the Italian-speaking part of that small country from a man named Ivan Gaspari, who has been incarcerated there since June 2023.
The really strange thing, at least from an American perspective, is that Gaspari was in jail based on accusations made by a private third party, and not because of the initiative of local law enforcement. And even stranger, that accuser was not Swiss but an American, Trish Duggan, the richest donor in Scientology, who has given the church something approaching half a billion dollars over the years.
Gaspari, backed up by documents we obtained, explained that after he had come to Scientology’s spiritual mecca in Clearwater, Florida in 2016, he was approached by Duggan (through her money manager Osman Ozsan) with a business proposition. Gaspari was a steel trader who had done very well for himself, and he had achieved the status of “Diamond Meritorious” for donating a cumulative $5 million to the IAS, Scientology’s membership organization.
Gaspari said that Duggan proposed to invest $20 million in him by creating a new company so they could super-size his profits for even bigger donations to the church. But then, Duggan and her Scientologist attorney Steven Hayes accused Gaspari of mismanaging the new company and skimming profits, and alleged that $7 million was missing.
Swiss trial pitting two Scientology mega-donors against each other opens today
Earlier this year we told you about a bizarre situation, a legal battle between major Scientology donors, and in Switzerland of all places.
tonyortega.substack.com
