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Special Update on 8.6
Million Dollar Wollersheim Scientology Collection Success and
Refund Success Tips for Ex-Scientologists
I have asked FACTNet.org to
distribute this update because it relates directly to helping
ex-Scientology members get the healing and legal and financial
justice that is due to them because of abuse and wrongdoing by
Scientology…
I (Lawrence Wollersheim) am sorry that I have not briefed the
ex-Scientologist community more frequently on the continuing
success of my $8.6 million dollar collection efforts with
Scientology.
As of this date, I have successfully collected almost 70 million
of the 86 million “thin dimes” that David Miscavige, their
leader, personally vowed and continues to vow I will never
collect.
The success in collecting these 70 million dimes also should
bring renewed hope to those of you victimized by Scientology may
who wish to get full refunds, out of court settlement payments
from Scientology and/or win litigation with them for any and all
real harm that they caused you --- even if it has been many,
many years since you left.
Firstly, a short update of what is currently going on in my
collection case:
As most of you know almost 3 years ago the mind control cult AKA
the Church of $cientology of California paid all 86 million
“thin dimes” of my judgment into the LA court and quit the
Wollersheim case in utter defeat. (The Wollersheim 1 case.)
This pay the money into the court strategy was designed
intentionally to punish me by delaying me getting paid
personally. Scientology took this action because they publicly
maintained that they were afraid that my creditors would come
after them and not me, if I was paid directly by them. Which is
strange, since every legitimate creditor, attorney of record and
legitimate lien holder that filed requests for payment with the
court created not one bill problem, or bill conflict, and they
were all promptly paid in full shortly after the Scientology 8.6
million in judgment money hit the court.
But, here is where it really gets interesting. I am now at trial
again and being sued in Wollersheim lawsuit # 6 by one
individual, (a lawyer who turned housewife, whose only
designated minor role was limited to para legal type fact
checking and document finding during the case for the actual
trial attorneys) that claimed to the court, after the money was
paid, that she could be due up to $5 million dollars for her
work using pay multipliers and quantum merilit arguments, which
(surprise surprise) stops me from getting the rest of the money
represented by the judgment released from the court.
To put into perspective how ridiculous this 5 million dollars
claim is --- it is about 10 times more than any other attorney
of record was claiming for approximately the same period.
(Attorneys of record are those who actually did the trial and
litigation work, not the administrative fact and document
checking back office work that she did.)
During the last 3 years this individual has repeatedly used a
series of court actions seemingly designed only to increase my
legal costs and delay release of the remaining money in the
court. This individual resisted all repeated, rational and fair
efforts at settlement --- including the final decision of a 3
-day arbitration by her peers at the Los Angeles County Bar
Association Fee Dispute Resolution Service.
During this time she has repeatedly used the worst of
Scientology litigation tactics: endless appeals, trying to
remove the judge, frivolous motions, making the review of her
bill statement impossible to decipher, and continually changing
the billing significances and calculation methods. (Remember how
Hubbard used to laugh about changing the significances of
invoices and how he roared about the “unique” Hubbard org
invoicing and accounting procedures that would drive the IRS
batty until they simply gave up.)
The longer my collection case goes on, the more I see what an
informed and reasonable person could believe to be the steaming
breath and dirty fingerprints of Scientology’s desperate legal
tactics in Wollersheim 6 to use up the rest of the judgment in
legal costs and delay me getting it. The same tactics that got
Scientology one near $500,000 SLAPP suit fine (including all
extra collection fees.) Which they also had to pay. (SLAPP means
Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation. These SLAPP
lawsuits were designed to prevent wealthy abusers from unfairly
using the courts by increasing the opponent’s litigation costs
to silencing whistle blowers in the courts. ) Oops, I guess I
have now really collected about 75 million thin dimes not just
about 70 million mentioned above when you add in the 5 million
thin dimes from this SLAPP fine.
I will get to what is new that I have learned to help you get
your refunds shortly as well as financial restitution either
through out of court settlement or litigation for any legitimate
harms Scientology has caused you, but there are just a few more
things to update you on…
At the time that the original 8.6 million dollar payment was
paid into the court - other than for the victory press releases,
I deliberately went inactive and did not get involved in any
ongoing Scientology abuse education efforts.
I even turned down several significant cash advance book offers
on my Scientology experiences and collection story. I wanted to
give Scientology a chance to move on and end their relationship
with me. If they had simply stopped interfering in my life and
allowed me to move on, I would have done similar regarding them
because I have done all the educating and justice work against
Scientology that can be expected of anyone.
I also wanted time to rest from years of litigation.
I waited more than 3 years. However now because of their actions
in the new Wollersheim 6 case, I am certain that Scientology
cannot let go of seeking revenge for their stinging defeat in
the Wollersheim 1 case because so many new Scientology victims
are using my court victory and collection to get larger and
larger out of court settlement financial restitution from
Scientology and because more of Scientology’s victims have
learned that one of Scientology’s greatest fears is going back
to more trial losses like Wollersheim 1.
Because of the above I therefore decided it is time to come out
of my rest/retirement stronger than ever. Accordingly, I will
likely be filing a new lawsuit(s) during or just after I get the
balance of the 18 million additional dimes out or, when the
current Wollersheim 6 case moves into the appellate levels. It
might even be another SLAPP suit as they are getting very, very
sloppy in the pattern and content of their motions. (At least
one of their agents is highly likely to roll over on them when
Scientology has to leave them hanging and abandon them
eventually for their own protection and plausible deniability as
they always do when an expendable operative has served their
purpose. Also, in Scientology everyone under Miscavige is
expendable including investigators, attorneys staff, etc. (As a
sidebar: Scientology has a horrible history in litigation
against me. In part because someone on their team sooner or
later always gets a guilty conscience or defects and who will
have some covert opps information to assist my case. This is to
say nothing of former and current staff at the law firms that
are carrying out Scientology’s current litigation against me who
also either finally get personal conscience or want to punish
their former employers for some other reason. Already several of
their witnesses and covert operatives have come to me to
personally apologize and tell me what they did and who was
involved. Providence ad grace seems to always provide just what
is needed just when they least expect it. )
My collection success against them is perfectly hilarious!
Scientology still can’t admit that with a total 75 million thin
dimes 7.5 million already paid to me, and the barn door wide
open with a whole herd of money-horses long gone and, only a
tiny pony left --- that they have overwhelmingly lost the
collection battle too. And now, even that little pony is darn
close to walking right out of the gate! (In this update I almost
had the opportunity to tell you that I had collected the
remaining 18 million dimes and they were actually in my account.
But, it does look favorable that in a reasonable period of time
I will be making that wonderful additional minor collection
announcement as well.)
Now for a little bit about my personal quality of life since
winning the judgment and enforcing my collection of 75 million
dimes so far:
I am currently doing social advocacy and ministerial work full
time as well as expanding my spiritual life. (If your curious,
go to
IntegrativeSpirituality.org to see the type of healthy
religious organization I am a minister in. While you are there,
be sure to check the spiritual and cult safeguards section of
this website at by
clicking here. )
I am blessed with good health, great friends and relationships,
great work opportunities and challenges and a great environment.
People who have visited me since collecting the judgment also
have fun with a more relaxed and easy going me.
I work a normal 40 plus work week to earn an average salary just
like most of you. And, I will be doing this for as long as I can
envision because I love the social/spiritual work I do, I do not
want to retire and, working helps me meet the normal financial
obligations of life and saving for the future. Even though I
have received 75 million dimes so far, I still cannot live a
life of idle luxury nor do whatever I want personally or
financially for the rest of my life --- nor does that even sound
to me to be a wise use of a life. A lot of the 75 million dimes
when to tax issues and paying the great attorneys who helped
break the legal trail of litigation victory and collection
success against Scientology.
I never began or directed my court case against Scientology to
retire or solely towards the objective to get lots of
restitution money as my objective. What I wanted to do in my
lawsuit against Scientology was:
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legally and
publicly punish them for what they did to me and my family,
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publicly
educate others about the harms they cause to their members
by way of the testimony in court and the media coverage of
the trial,
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have the case
precedents and the monetary judgment that I could achieve be
a severe enough (and hopefully continual) punishment and
deterrent in Scientology’s mind so that they are severely
motivated to change the behaviors that caused the harm to me
and my family so that it won’t happen to other individuals
and families,
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break a
litigation precedent trail to show others exactly how
Scientology’s harassment and outrageous litigation
strategies can be defeated and in fact used against them
and, that they really are big losers in the court room and
should never be feared in the court room or in litigation.
And yes, the litigation trail is much easier faster and more
certain because of the horrendous legal beating Scientology
took in the Wollersheim case --- a legal beating they now
have to avoid repeating at all costs. I estimate that over
the 25 years of Wollersheim litigation Scientology spent and
wasted 140 million dollars to unsuccessfully try to defeat
us both in the court room and in covert operations. And,
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Assist others
to be able to get their lives back together after the
Scientology nightmare. Specifically, be able to learn how to
heal the psychological and spiritual damage as well as
become financially whole again through, refund repayments,
out of court settlements and far easier to obtain legal
judgments against Scientology.
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Find personal
healing and justice against them and if everything else came
first get just financial restitution for the harms they had
caused to my life.
I believed I have achieved 4 of the
5 points above but I need you help with one of them. I did force
Scientology to spend an estimated 140 million dollars in and out
of court to try to defeat a case that they wound up paying about
70 million dimes on anyway. Add to that an even more insulting 5
million more dimes in a SLAPP fine against them. (The court saw
though their harassment and outrageous litigation strategies and
wanted to publicly punish them with the largest SLAPP fine in
California history.) The one thing I did not achieve fully was
to convince Scientology to stop the destructive mind control and
other abusive behaviors that harmed me and my family. That is
those techniques that gives them the undue influence to strip
their targets of all of their cash.
This is where you come in as a former Scientology member who has
been legitimately harmed by them. Scientology simply will never
change their destructive behavior until the rest of their
victims rise up and take all of the profit away
from their wrongdoing either through getting their full refunds
back, increasing out of court settlements and/or through lawsuit
judgments with enforced collections to make up the damage for
their lost lives and suffering.
I gladly paid the very high litigation costs on 25 years of
litigation with Scientology to break the litigation and
collection legal precedents trail for future victims. I have
made no secret that most of what I have received to break the
trail for every other ex-scientologist for court recovery so far
has gone to attorneys and taxes. I still don’t know what I will
end up with when I defeat their tactics in the new Wollersheim 6
trial that holds a small portion of the original judgment, other
than to know that whatever remains will be humble and I
shouldn’t under any circumstances give up my day job.
But, I would do it all again even knowing how difficult it would
be and there will be only a smaller financial reward left after
all tax, legal costs, personal litigation loans and other
obligations have been met from the 25 year battle --- and most
importantly because Scientology’s false litigation unbeatable
legend has been resoundingly shattered to smithereens!
Even now Scientology still incessantly bluffs and blusters to
hide their horrendous Wollersheim legal precedent rich defeat.
They will do anything they can to hide the trail-breaking
Wollersheim case precedents from you because it makes it far,
far easier for you to win and collect and beat them down legally
as my team did in the Wollersheim 1 case. They do not want you
to know that they know and have secretly decided that no other
victim will ever have to go though what I did over 25 years in
and out of the courts nor its costs because they absolutely know
that they cannot ever take that kind of humiliating, legend
destroying, costly, legal, financial and public relations defeat
ever again!
They know they and their actions will ALWAYS appear monstrous in
front of juries of normal people. They know their perjury
committing and cult doctrine delusional executives on the
witness stand are just not credible and far more damaging to
their own case than any evidence they are trying to dispute from
the other side.
Today’s Scientology victims can stand on the shoulders of the
hard won Wollersheim court precedents and easily accessible
court records and can and do beat the living crap out of
Scientology legally in far less time with far less cost and
effort and, with the reasonable expectation of even larger court
judgments than I received. But Scientology won’t let these kind
of cases come though court anymore. Their cult dumb, but they
are not insane and they love their money to much to expose their
cash to the far greater payouts in jury losses.
Because of my judgment, other victim court judgments against
Scientology from around the world plus Scientology’s new
eagerness to settle real and damaging potential new court cases
before they go to court, I can finally see that eventually
Scientology will have to change its harmful behavior because ---
each new victim that stands up to Scientology takes a bit more
of the financial profit out of their wrong doing. Sooner or
later Miscavige will have to change their policies because they
love their money more than any ideological or faux spiritual
principles.
I have no illusions nor should you. Scientology is mostly immune
to bad press. Bad Press alone will not change their behavior as
evidenced by the last 30 years of PR so bad they are the great
pariah of organizations that claim to be religions if you even
think they are a religion. It is only when all of us take all of
the profit out of Scientology’s harmful human rights abuses they
will finally and fully stop doing
them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is that simple, but it
seems to take EX members years if ever to reach this simple
conclusion and that they are the only ones that can make it
happen.
So once again, The Wollersheim case has been a trail breaking
part of the process to FORCE Scientology through huge monetary
penalties toward eventually changing its anti social and
destructive behavior. It was worth all that I spent and suffered
in winning and collecting the Wollersheim judgment, but this
legal foundation and tremendous legal defeat of Scientology
needs you and every former victim of Scientology to act now to
complete the simple process of taking all profit out of their
wrongdoing …and change the organization that has previously
refused to change…From this day forward I ask you help in
getting this information to every single new person who leaves
Scientology and to every person who has left Scientology since
it was created--- Which is almost everyone they ever recruited
but somehow they shuddered into silence.
On another note about my life since my judgment, I have decided
to release a book on my Scientology experience. The purpose of
the book is to help individuals who have been victimized
everywhere and in any way, find healing, transformation and the
power within themselves to successfully use education, social
advocacy and the power of the law to stop the victimizer from
victimizing others.
I have chosen the route of a humble advance book payment and a
guaranteed national publicity tour. I am so far along in the
writing process that any of the multiple drafts that I keep in
safe places could be edited by any good editor and the final
edition released to the public without any additional input from
me…
Most tragically my son died recently and it was a powerful life
changing loss for me. At the time of his death I re-realized how
important the cult child abuse and mind control education work
is that I do as a director of
www.FACTNet.org. This was re-realized because of remembering
how he had suffered from what Scientology did to him, his mom
and dad and our family.
I think it would be very reasonable to expect that my several
years of rest and successful collection efforts have well
prepared me to be much more effective in that role too. But you
will be the judge of that over the next few years.
I am expecting that Scientology will soon begin another round of
public character assignation against me via the courtroom in the
existing action to again try sooth the biting pain of the
crushing Wollersheim collection success. Their covert operations
against me have never stopped, but all of this becomes just more
content for my anticipated future litigation them..
I do not fear Scientology. This is because fear is everything
that they are about and it is what they want you to feel towards
them to make themselves feel falsely powerful. They are not
powerful in the real and deepest meanings of that word.
I have got more from the process of enforcing justice on
Scientology and defeating them over the last 25 years than I
could have ever gotten from just a large money payment like the
8 million they offered me in an out of court settlement.
I will continue to do just fine in all the real and most
important inner things of life even if I never do collect
another thin dime. But, I do suspect that I will collect
the remaining small fraction of the judgment just have I have
sworn to collect and HAVE collected all the rest…
Now, more news that may mean many of you will soon get full
refunds and/or settlement payments from Scientology for any
legitimate harms Scientology caused you even if it has been
years since you left:
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Scientology
is paying more out of court settlements than ever before. I
estimate from all the sources who have confided in me over
the last 25 years they have paid out well over 150 million
dollars (or 1,500 million thin dimes in Miscavige vow
terminology) in out of court settlements.
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Things really
have drastically changed since the Wollersheim legal victory
and my enforced successful collection. The difficult first
case against Scientology litigation TACTICS has been broken.
There is a successful litigation path and the path is now
wide open. The first victim of theirs has won in the courts
and already has a huge collection.
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They now know
that they have to pay new refunds requests fast or end up in
even worse litigation, but few ex-members persist and demand
their refunds optimally as described below. (They are
stopped by intentionally implanted Scientology induced
phobias that tell you in one way or another that if you
attack or sue Scientology you will get sick, want to kill
yourself or fall apart. (Hubbard did this phobia implanting
intentionally so he intimidate both staff and members and
then could run away with your cash after harming you. This
is because he believed that you would be too mentally
debilitated and disempowered by the fear phobias to fight
back and get justice. Sick, slick trick! These implanted
Scientology phobias are just mental garbage and are easily
realized as a mean and twisted strategy to ruthlessly
disempower and silence you…)
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Here is more
good news! Even though Scientology still tries to twist and
deny my successful collection with those who were not aware
of how severely they have been beaten down by it and the
Wollersheim litigation precedents, in their current
settlement negations, they are deathly afraid of going back
into court on legitimate abuse cases that will only add to
their litigation costs and payouts, their bad Tom Cruise,
John Travolta and other celebrity PR and, their promotion
problems.
In other words, they will pay in spite of their current #1
favorite and false settlement negotiations intimidation
tactic and claim that, “they know and guarantee that
Wollersheim will never get anything after his years of
litigation and collection efforts so you better take this
amount we are offering you.”
Those that know the truth regarding the absurdity of this
issue and have good attorneys - such as Dan Leipold and Ford
Greene of California - are getting high dollar out of court
settlements. Those that don’t ---get lesser or no
settlements. It is not the old days anymore!
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Scientology’s
threats of making any collection impossible even if you do
win in court are also just as hollow. This is due to
methodical and persistent collection attorneys such as Craig
Stein, who is hot on the trail of the small remainder of the
rest of my thin dimes.
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There is even
more good news for you getting your just financial
restitution even if it has been years since you have been in
Scientology --- the fraud exemption!
Depending upon what state you are
in, you have 3 to 5 years to bring your suit from the point you
actually discover that a fraud has been perpetrated on you.
(Consult your local state laws.)
For those of you seeking refunds for all your service payments
that you were defrauded on, I suggest you keep it simple. You
have a policy refund right to get every thin dime of what you
paid to Scientology no MATTER HOW MANY YEARS AGO IT WAS.
Here is the exact refund success process I recommend:
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Send a SIMPLE
several paragraph written demand to your local Scientology
center(s) the one or ones where you received your services.
Demand that all your service payments are refunded back to
you within 30 days. State in the demand that they are
required to honor the refund policy and that David Miscavige
- as head of Scientology - will be held personally, legally
responsible for it if you do not get your payment in 30
days. Tell them after 30 days if you do not get your payment
you are going to sue David Miscavige personally and
Scientology and, you are giving a copy of this demand letter
to the IRS enforcement division because Scientology and
David Miscavige are not following the procedures and
policies they claimed to use in their applications for 501c3
religious non profit status.
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If you do not
get paid in 30 days, immediately file a copy of your demand
letter to the Enforcement division of the IRS with a cover
letter stating David Miscavige as head of Scientology (and
the highest ranking person who was responsible for
Scientology’s 501c3 non profit status application) is
violating the statements and terms of Scientology’s IRS
application in which they were granted a religious non
profit tax exemption.
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Next, and
ideally, find a Scientology battle-hardened lawyer who knows
Scientology’s bluffing and negotiation tactics and file your
refund and other claims suit through them. If your attorney
agrees it is appropriate, be sure to name David Miscavige
personally in any suit as he is head of all operations and
is personally and corporately responsible for the actions of
all of the Scientology corporations he has de facto absolute
control over. Do not falter, hesitate or delay. Do not
re-ask Scientology to pay you. If you do not file suit as
you say, when you say, Scientology will not treat your
demand as credible and will look at you as weak. And, if
David Miscavige’s name is on it, they will take you
seriously! --- Because they are forced by their own internal
policy to take the suit seriously and it is OSA policy to
protect Miscavige like he was Hubbard.
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Next, start
calling all the local media you can and tell them your human
rights abuse story. Be sure to Use David Miscavige’s name as
the individual most personally responsible for enforcing the
policies of Scientology and this injustice. Where ever you
can, mention Tom Cruise John Travolta and any other
Scientology Celebrities who are promoting Scientology and
causing more people to be harmed as you were. (You might
even want to name them in your suit as well, if your
attorney agrees it is appropriate.) Also ask the local media
to go with you to the Scientology center if they have a
fraud exposing unit. Keep on getting Scientology more media
coverage on the harm and injustice they have done to you
always mentioning the names above. (Remember you first asked
them nicely to follow their own refund policy and they
refused! You now have the right and moral and ethical
obligation to enforce justice in the manner above through
the law to take all the profit out of their wrongdoing.
Also, keep in mind that they are fanatics. Anything less
that your total commitment and total persistence to
executing the exact success process above will not even get
their attention much less your refund!
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Make sure
every new ex scientologist gets this email and make sure
every old ex-scientologist hears about it too. That is the
absolute least you can do to do your fair part to help take
the profit out of Scientology’s wrongdoing.
I want to add that legitimately
suing for justice when needed is also a great healing process. I
can whole heartedly confirm that from my own healing experience.
Ex-Scientologists who were deceived and victimized who just go
off and let Scientology get away it by not educating, getting
their money back and/or even better filing suit, in my
experience, just do not heal as fast and often not ever fully.
Worse yet they allow the Scientology’s horrendous abuse of its
members to continue by not doing their just part to punish it
and take the financial profit out of it….
If you are ever in a settlement negotiation with Scientology and
they try to intimidate you with intentional delays or their
Wollersheim victory fantasies, look them square in the eye and
tell them I say hi and that you got my 75 million dimes
collection update email.
Finally, and it bears repeating, the rewards that I have
received - on every level of my life - have been more than worth
everything that I have gone through over the 25 years in winning
the court case and collecting.
I and the Wollersheim 1 team have done our parts in breaking the
legal trail and successfully collecting 75 million dimes and
demolishing the false self created and self serving legend that
Scientology is undefeatable. And so I personally ask you to
please immediately begin actively forward this collection
success and refund tips update to everyone in your
ex-Scientology member networks. Make sure each new
ex-scientologists you hear of gets one too. They truly deserve
to know about the new refund recovery and settlement options
too… and, Scientology deserves to actively and legally have
every thin dime of profit removed from them that was based on
the harm and abuse of their members and staff!
Wishing you healing, restitution and even better financial
recovery and restitution success than I had using the full power
of the law. It is just waiting for you to ask for it……
Lawrence Wollersheim
IANAL
IMHO
11/2/2005
PS For more information on healing on every level from the
Scientology’s abuse please see
http://www.factnet.org/Healing.html I will try to post
regular updates from the trial on it progress and Scientology’s
often stupid moves like the one today that was so stupid that it
will be told in my ext from the trial blog like update.
Best,
Lawrence Wollersheim
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