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Christian rock promoter pleads guilty to fraud
The owner and operator of a Downey, California, firm has pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a Ponzi scheme that collected nearly $1 million from victims who were falsely promised that their money would...
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Church of Scientology fights its conviction on fraud in Paris appeals court
The appeal for the Church of Scientology’s conviction on fraud has opened in a Paris court. The cult's defense lawyersh plan to argue during the appeal that the conviction curtails freedom of religion...
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A Paris appeals court has rejected a bid by the Church of Scientology to get the group's fraud conviction thrown out because the case has taken too long. The refusal of that request means the appeals...
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NY prosecutor: Scammers fleeced wealthy musician, Schlumberger heir for $20...
A wealthy musician lost $20 million over six years to scammers who persuaded him of threats against him coming out of Central America, the conservative Catholic movement Opus Dei and the CIA, a...
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Pastor Gets 15 Years for Massive Medicare Fraud
A federal judge has sentenced the pastor of a now defunct Los Angeles church to 15 years in prison after he was convicted for bilking millions from Medicare for unnecessary power wheelchairs....
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French Court Upholds Scientology Fraud Conviction
Updated A French appeals court on Thursday upheld the Church of Scientology's 2009 fraud conviction on charges it pressured members into paying large sums for questionable remedies. The case centered...
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Former pastor sentenced to 3 years in prison for $14.2 million Medicare fraud...
A former Los Angeles church pastor, who owned and operated several fraudulent durable medical equipment supply companies with her husband, was sentenced today to serve 3 years in prison for her role...
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Christian rock concert promoter sentenced in $1M Ponzi scheme
A federal judge has sentenced a promoter of Christian rock concerts to nearly five years in prsion in a wire fraud scheme that bilked nearly $1 million from investors. Lauren Baumann, 43, of Downey,...
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Lawyers claim psychics practiced religion; prosecutors say it’s fraud
What a South Florida family of psychics did for 20 years was criminal fraud, federal prosecutors say. But the defense team for the Rose Marks family says it was something very different — religion,...
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SEC says ‘Social Capitalist’ ran Ponzi scheme targeting church members
Former businessman Ephren Taylor, who describes himself as a 'Social Capitalist,' has been charged with fraud by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an alleged $11 million Ponzi scheme...
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Jeremiah Duggan did not commit suicide, coroner rules
The coroner also ruled that the fact that Jeremiah Duggan had revealed himself to be Jewish while attending a conference of the extreme Larouche organisation may have had a bearing on how he died....
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Cult leader Lia Eden wants UFO to pick up her followers
Cult leader Lia Eden claims that a UFO piloted by the archangel Gabriel wants to pick up her followers. She has therefore requested that Indonesia's President and Jakarata's Governor grant the UFO...
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Polygamous FLDS cult erects wall around meetinghouse
The insular Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) is building a "fortress-type" wall around its meeting house in Colorado City, Arizona. Observers believe the wall is being...
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Anti-gay bakery owners must pay $135.000 to lesbian couple
The Christian owners of a bakery in Oregon have been ordered to pay $135.000 to a lesbian couple they refused to bake a wedding cake for. Aaron and Melissa Klein said their refusal to bake for the...
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International Cultic Studies Association: Upcoming Events
The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is a global network of people concerned about psychological manipulation and abuse in cultic or high-demand groups, alternative movements, and other...
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Brazilian Evangelicals set up a ‘sin free’ alternative to Facebook
The people behind Facegloria -- said to be a sin-free alternative to Facebook -- want to take on Facebook, Twitter, and the world. Aimed initially at Brazil's booming 'Evangelical' movement, the...
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Religion News, Wednesday July 15, 2015
Scientology quacks urged veto of Texas mental health bill. Watch how dozens of Yazidi women and children escape from the clutches of ISIS barbarians. Why a Wheaton chaplaincy staffer quit the...
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Escaping Polygamy — and Scientology
'Sister Wives' sugarcoats polygamy. 'Escaping Polygamy' shows what the lifestyle is really like. Come to think of it, that's also what Alex Gibney did in his Emmy-nominated documentary, "Going Clear,'...
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Are you old enough to remember Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh?
In 1981 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh spent $5.75 million on a remote piece of property in Oregon and invested millions more to build Rajneeshpuram as a spiritual retreat for thousands of his red-frocked...
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Nobody joins a cult, but it is easy to get radicalized
Today: stories about the Palmarian Catholic Church, how easily people get radicalised, and what IS jihadists have in mind for Europe’s cities. Also: tongue-in-cheek, How do Operating Thetans get in...
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