I see what Hoaxie is saying but wonder if DM distinguishes between what are his private assets and what you might loosely describe as charitable funds. Does anyone else have any authority to sign cheques?
Aside from typical Errors & Omissions insurance, it is not unusual for corporate entities to indemnify officers, directors or others operating in senior fiduciary capacities from liability pursuant to litigation.
Considering that the thug Emperor of Scientology has been reaping personal financial windfalls beginning in the 80's from his controlling positions in the for-profit corporation Author Services (
and other money management functions with Sea Org reserves, et al), it is safe to assume that Miscavige has secured his retirement nest egg long ago.
Add to that the fact that he has had several decades to build layers upon layers of corporate veils, lawyers acting as trustees and a Byzantine network of off shore entities/accounts taking "management fees" for the financial administration of over a billion dollars of cash reserves. It would not be surprising in the least if he had aggregated $30M-$50M under his personal control. And even less surprising would be the continuing money management fee arrangement that would
continue even if he were to be removed from his pope post.
Anyone seeking to unravel such intentionally obfuscating international shell games, with their correspondent jurisdictional protections of straw trustees that are effectively alter-ego puppets of Miscavige (
exactly as he perpetrates within the RTC, COS, IAS and other affiliated entity-gumbo cloaking schemes) would expect a decade or longer exercise in frustration while the funds filtered out to even more unreachable complexities. Even if successful (probably though the agency of government prosecution) the thug emperor could quite easily and discreetly skim off an additional $50-100M for for himself before "settling" the matter by surrendering over a billion in cash.
Short of criminal prosecution (relying on the vast resources of federal agencies/prosecutors) it is extremely likely that Miscavige would walk away with a personal fortune--just not held in his name personally, but what's the difference whether you OWN a car or LEASE a car if you can drive anywhere you want?
But all is not lost. There are beautiful victories ahead for homo sapiens, no matter what the thug emperor does. If he stays in power he continues to "obliterate the enemy" (Scientologists, lol) by driving anyone with half a brain to blow. And, if he leaves his position of power, that too would drive the majority of remaining true-believers out of the COS because they (being "true believers") would, um, believe the SP DECLARE that the COS would issue on Miscavige. Either way, the COS is reduced to rubble and a few morons-with-meters who are not able to "duplicate" the news that their beloved Church of Scientology lies in ruin.
Is all this just wishful thinking? No. How do we know this? Because all evil hoaxes eventually run their course before people catch on and the defections and insurrections go viral. I think the last few years of top execs/parishioners/celebrities blowing (and the burgeoning number multi-faceted legal and PR attacks that Scientology is besieged by) is ample early stage proof that the anti-cult virus is robustly reproducing and propagating.
For anyone needing some additional "mass" on how the end of Scientology looks with time-lapse enhancement, here it is.
ps: The real OTs in this video (able to as-is the slimy cold-blooded predatory lizard) are Homo Antus. Enjoy!
[video=youtube;R3Mt2E1M6dU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Mt2E1M6dU&list=PL0D47099A05D3620E[/video]