What scum these $cientologist clams are. That we are even considering talking about this level of degenerative bullshit as even a remote possibility in the real world is indicative of vast moral turpitude on the part of the clams.
But I already knew that from first hand experience.
If we figure how many millions they have spent on surveillance, fair gaming and court settlements over high profile people who can potentially cause a lot of trouble like Heber, I wouldn't put anything past them. And the sophisticated equipment is so readily available to the kinds of people they would hire to do this now. Just the information collected by Google is outrageous. If I were OSA I would definitely try to get someone inside Google and the phone companies. If they spent upwards of 12 million to surveil Pat Broeker long after he was gone, imagine what they would spend and what they would do to prevent information about Heber coming out.
https://tonyortega.org/2012/11/29/scientologys-master-spies/
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But more than an employment dispute, the lawsuit was remarkable for several reasons. Scientology is known for using private investigators to keep tabs on former members and journalists. But this assignment was special — only a handful of church executives knew anything about Marrick and Arnold and their work, Rathbun said. The sums were stunning: between $10 and 12 million, much of it paid in cash, to watch only one man. Investigators don’t usually sue the church, and Miscavige is rarely named as a defendant. And the venue — a small county on the Texas Coastal Bend — was an unlikely place for a court fight that threatened to ensnare two men rarely or never seen in public: Miscavige, and the man he wrested control of the church from, Pat Broeker. The unusual case was garnering national and international attention.
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According to Jeffrey, Marrick and Arnold were getting paid annually about $250,000 each over the life of the project. But out of that money, they say, they had to pay all of the operation’s expenses — flights, rental houses, rental cars, teams of other investigators, sanitation workers, and many informants.
“We’re not wealthy, by any means,” Arnold insists.
In 1988, they had formed a partnership, Select Investigations (they incorporated in October, 1991). They received cashier’s checks — about $40,000 each month, divided into checks that were always under $10,000 each, for tax reasons — through 2001.
But Marrick and Arnold were traveling so much in the job, they were having a hard time getting the checks deposited. Marrick says their solution was to open a new account at a Los Angeles bank, and then take a stack of deposit slips to the church, asking them to deposit their pay.
From 2001 to 2007, the church did just that, and Marrick recently confirmed with his banker that during that time, the church deposited their pay in cash — about $40,000 a month, all in greenbacks.
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