Rmack
Van Allen Belt Sunbather
My story is not as scary as Gottabrain's, but I remember an incident where an S.O. member embezzled funds.
I forget the guys name, but it had to be in 1980 when this happened.
His post was something to do with selling books, and he had these phenomenal stats going for months. We would sit around at crew musters hearing all about how great this guy was, and we were suppose to be happy about him making all this bonus money while we all got paid 15 bucks a week, if that.
He was living off the base and doing pretty good. I think he was making around 500 bucks a week or something, which was pretty good money back then. I saw him try to hit on several S.O. women, but as he was short, chubby, and not very attractive, I never saw him have much success.
Then, one day I see a big flap in progress, and hear through the grapevine that this guy had been selling books to people without their permission, using their pre-paid for courses accounts, and not sending the books.
There were hundreds of people who had paid for the SHSBC and other stuff who hadn't showed up yet. Some of them for years, and he was just charging it to their accounts, taking the books out of his inventory, and stashing them. I guess he got busted when someone found a room full of books that couldn't be accounted for.
I was quite surprised to see this guy walking around later not in jail. He didn't even seem to be on the RPF.
Does anyone know more about this? Any old ASHO day crew from the late seventies to early eighties out there?
I forget the guys name, but it had to be in 1980 when this happened.
His post was something to do with selling books, and he had these phenomenal stats going for months. We would sit around at crew musters hearing all about how great this guy was, and we were suppose to be happy about him making all this bonus money while we all got paid 15 bucks a week, if that.
He was living off the base and doing pretty good. I think he was making around 500 bucks a week or something, which was pretty good money back then. I saw him try to hit on several S.O. women, but as he was short, chubby, and not very attractive, I never saw him have much success.
Then, one day I see a big flap in progress, and hear through the grapevine that this guy had been selling books to people without their permission, using their pre-paid for courses accounts, and not sending the books.
There were hundreds of people who had paid for the SHSBC and other stuff who hadn't showed up yet. Some of them for years, and he was just charging it to their accounts, taking the books out of his inventory, and stashing them. I guess he got busted when someone found a room full of books that couldn't be accounted for.
I was quite surprised to see this guy walking around later not in jail. He didn't even seem to be on the RPF.
Does anyone know more about this? Any old ASHO day crew from the late seventies to early eighties out there?
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