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As this lawsuit is about to fire up again and other threads are tending towards related discussions, here is a new thread for the lawsuit's current events.
Tony Ortega writes:
Days before crucial hearing, Scientology pulls out a ghost to sway a federal judge
Tony Ortega writes:
Days before crucial hearing, Scientology pulls out a ghost to sway a federal judge
http://tonyortega.org/2015/02/13/da...gy-pulls-out-a-ghost-to-sway-a-federal-judge/Yesterday, Scientology filed its 25-page “bench memorandum” with 50 pages of exhibits. The Garcia side, we’re told, will now file a response, but for today, we have for you a copy of what the church filed.
We think there are a number of things going on in this memo, some rather obvious, others more subtle. But it also reveals that for this hearing the church has brought back a ghost whose name is really going to startle some longtime Scientology watchers.
Are you ready? Can you say, Sherman Lenske? (Did you just see Jeffrey Augustine jump out of his seat? Anyone have some smelling salts?)
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So the new folks are wondering, who is Sherman Lenske, and why are the oldtimers so worked up about him showing up for a deposition?
The simple answer is that he’s an attorney who helped Scientology complete its complex corporate restructuring in the early 1980s while L. Ron Hubbard was in seclusion.
He was one of the creators of the Church of Spiritual Technology, for example, the most secretive of Scientology entities, which digs vaults around the country for keeping the words of Hubbard safe from nuclear annihilation. If that weren’t weird enough, CST can, for a nominal fee, buy back the church’s trademarks and copyrights administered by the Religious Technology Center — the entity that David Miscavige nominally runs Scientology from — and take over control of the movement itself.
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So why was Lenske brought out of the shadows to take part in the Garcia lawsuit?
Mainly to counter testimony by Mike Rinder.