Jeffrey Augustine on Leah Remini Scientology and the Aftermath Season 2 Ep 9
This week we have the pleasure of speaking with whistleblower, investigator, researcher and friend Jeffrey Augustine.
Jeff does great work tracking and exposing scientology, especially in the realm of financial crimes.
This episode contains a rundown of scientologist criminals and their legal troubles and the juxtaposition with the public claims of scientology being the most ethical group on earth.
Jeffrey has a website where he documents his investigations, it is an incredible resource: The Scientology Money Project
He also does the Surviving Scientology Radio podcast which I have joined him on:
Here is one of the latest articles on David Gentile and GBP Capital
We mention Reed Slatkin — the grandaddy of scientology Ponzi-schemers.
The Colombian Police General who awarded David Miscavige a fake humanitarian medal and is now being criminally prosecuted:
Capt Cory Palka of the Hollywood division of the LAPD and his very cozy relationship with scientology. You can see him here accepting one of the annual checks Celebrity Centre presented his department:
Here is Jeff’s expose of the scientology kiosk that was installed in the hallway of the Hollywood division.
Some information about scientologist chiropractor Dennis Nobbe
Scientology chiropractors Jeffrey and Jim Spina
Here is the submission to the IRS from scientology about “out-exchange” and how gracious they are about returning funds if someone merely asks.
Scientology response to IRS question about return of donations, retyped from the record of exemption proceedings on file with IRS:
It has been a long-standing policy of the Church that if someone is dissatisfied with their Scientology services and asks to have their contributions returned within a three month period, these amounts will be returned. Likewise, if the person asks for return of contributions for which no services were received (i.e. an advance payment), there is no three month limitation period. Anyone newly enrolling in services at a Church of Scientology is informed of the policies and signs an agreement to abide by them. As a further condition of receiving a refund or repayment, the person understands that they may not again receive services from the Church.
Within the Church, there are two separate terms: A “refund” refers to a return of contributions to a parishioner within 90 days of participating in religious services while a “repayment” refers to a return of a parishioner’s advance payment before he or she has participated in religious services. For simplicity, the following discussion will use the term “refund” to describe both types of transactions, because both involve a return of parishioner contributions.
The Church’s refund policy is exceedingly fair. If someone isn’t happy with Scientology — which is a very small minority of people — he simply has to make a proper request for his donations back, agree to forego further services and his donations will be returned. For the Church, in addition to the fact that this policy aligns with Scientology principles of exchange, it also serves the purpose of allowing our churches and the parishioners who are very happy with Scientology, to carry on without the unhappy few in their midst.
The most recent posting on Scientology Money Project about scientologist scammer Brent Jones
And the legal woes of Rizza Islam
Matt Feshbach — poster child for the incredible abilities gained with Super Power, and popular scientology shill offering “Prosperity Seminars” is also a tax cheat:
Scientology organizations taking Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) money when they claim everyone is a “volunteer” to avoid payroll taxes…
Scientologist Doug Dohring and his ABC Mouse company, massive donators to scientology, in trouble with the FTC:
What an amazing podcast…Jeffrey is so great and I look forward to reading his reports when they come out. This is what one calls “The Receipts”, the actual evidence. What he does is terrific and gives me such hope. I hope that his prediction that scientology will come crashing down in a very sudden & unexpected way….happens and very soon. Thank you to the 3 of you who do so much work to expose the truth.
I wholeheartedly agree with Lois. Jeffrey Augustine is an immense source of cut-through-the-noise intellect and strength. His “The Scientology Money Project” was the first site a friend directed me to, after I owned up “I’m leaving.” Seeing just the title of Jeff’s site was like a world (mine) going from black-and-white to color. Thank you, Jeffrey, for all you do, and for your vigor, constancy, and thoroughness.
Mike, why do I keep getting error messages like this just below your intro…
“Error 403 Forbidden
Forbidden
Guru Mediation:
Details: cache-lhr7322-LHR 1622632818 947024303
Varnish cache server”
Am I missing something?
I dont know. I am unsure what you refer to when you say “Your intro”?
Just below this paragraph…
“This episode contains a rundown of scientologist criminals and their legal troubles and the juxtaposition with the public claims of scientology being the most ethical group on earth.”
This error happens quite often on your blog site, I’m not sure what’s happening but it may be because I’m in the UK and it’s a disallowed site outside your borders.
It must be the link to the podcast… And it would seem to be something about you being in the UK as I havent heard this problem from anyone else.
Mike, I’m convinced something’s changed at your end as I can no longer access any podcasts going right back to the beginning with your episode 0 which I could listen to when it was first broadcast.
Please investigate this as I have tried on 3 separate devices with the same result on each. Could it be iHeart that has changed some settings or possibly interference from COS.
I know this is important because you may not be reaching the wider audience you should.
Many thanks,
Andy.
Is anyone else having trouble?
I have had trouble accessing the podcasts quite a few times. I have about 3 or 4 different links to these podcasts and periodically only some of the podcasts are shown when I select one of these links. But the following link does give access to all 43. However, It is tricky for a reason I will explain later:
http://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-scientology-fair-game-68514402
The reason it is tricky to access any one or all of the podcasts is because when you open this link, it only shows (estimate) the ten most recent editions. Then there is an oval button near the bottom of the page that says something like, “Load More” or “Show More” and you have to click on that and it loads about 6 more. All in all to see all 43 podcasts you have to repeat that process about ten times which is a real pain.
Andy S., I don’t know if that could be the reason you say that you are having trouble. But overall, I have experienced different kinds of problems with all of the links I have ever tried. Usually the most reliable link is found on here: tonyortega.org
But in my experience, although the above link is highly reliable, it is only always reliable for the most recent edition.
Good Luck!
Hey Mark! Though I listen to all of your’s and Leah’s podcast this is my first visit to your blog 🙃 Today’s episode with Jeffrey brought me here to find his info to get the details about the David Gentile story.
The wheels of justice for Scientology are moving slowly, but everything you guys are doing is what keeps those wheels turning!!
I’m glad I’ve finally gotten to your blog!
Maybe after Jeffrey’s court reporting you guys and do a long recording and break it into a few parts 😍 those kind of episodes are great sometimes!!!
Can’t get enough of you and Leah!!
This podcast is really interesting indeed.
A question for a future “listener question”. Marie Sue was the Commodore’s second for more than 15 years. Did she know that her husband was just a storyteller or was she too deceived and did she really believe it? After she got out of jail and took all the blame she was SP declare and isolated from scn? Is it true that she was forced to sign something that she then gave miscavige definitely full control of scn?
Thank you Leah and Mike for existing.
Napoleon had a rule forbidding interfering with an opponent when he was making a mistake.
This is exactly what the allies thought about Hitler near the end of WWII
I could have listened to Jeffrey talk for hours. Boy, would I love to pick his brain on grand jury hearings.
I have a question for one of your “Reader Questions” episodes. I’d like to know if the higher ups, Miscavage, Cruise, et al, really believe in xenu and what Hubbard said happened billions of years ago. What exactly do they believe and, if they don’t, do they look at their Cult members as suckers for dishing out all this money? I’d really like to know how much the cult leaders believe. Thanks Mike!
ohhh cant wait for this podcast episode
Jeffrey’s detailed investigations have been invaluable to helping expose the truth about Scientology on so many fronts. Brilliant work.
That’s one heckuva list – appalling. Imop, it shows very clearly what is produced in human nature when people are taught to despise the “outsiders” – the rest of the world. Caveat Emptor doesn’t even begin to cover this group!!
I’d love to know how much of the ill gotten gains “earned” by these criminals ended up cherch coffers.
My husband Jeffrey Augustine is also a licensed Private Investigator in the State of California.
This makes our life even more exciting and opens up our connections to
an ever larger range and spectrum.
Howdy Karen, I just want to say that I enjoyed this podcast immensely because of Jeffrey Augustine. He has some amazing knowledge and opinions – especially about the way this cult will ultimately end.
I really enjoyed listening to him.
Thank you Skyler. I showed this to Jeffrey.
How interesting! And as well comforting to know that your extremely bright and dedicated hubby who also happens to be a licensed PI in CA is one of the good guys, Karen.
Quite a rogues’ gallery. Jeffery and Mike, thank you for your tireless work to shed light on these charlatans and con artists!
The $cientology Money Project gets to the vampirish heart of the $cieno scam. Support him by a donation if you can.
And OT8is better than great!
Oh goodie. Really looking forward to listening to this. Jeffrey is one of the best at dissecting and articulating all things scientology. His interviews are some of the best.
He has a great website. I refer folks to it often.
You can follow him on WordPress, too.
Hey Mark.
See that picture of Doug and Laurie Dohring? The posture that Laurie is holding as she stands next to her husband with her left hip extended out one way while her right shoulder is extended up and out the other way, resonates in my mind with the perfect “CROOK” posture.
Anytime I see a lady standing next to her mate while adopting that posture, it just screams out in my mind, “CROOK! CROOK! CROOK!”
I don’t know why. It certainly doesn’t prove anything. But it just looks so entirely smarmy and suspicious to me that I get an overwhelming feeling that she is just one inch away from a penitentiary cell.
HEY! I just had an idea! See that guy who is selling real water?
Maybe we could start a company selling real air and we could take the profits and donate them to some anti-cult and anti-scam groups?
Oh wait. That would make us no better than he is. Darn! So close and yet so far!
Skyler23,
Real Air, yes…
From the Himalayas…
😎✌🏾
Hey Mark,
You are certainly right about Jeffrey Augustine. I had never previously even heard of him. But after listening to him, I would have to say he must be the premier financial expert on this cult.
If and when there are ever any senate hearings (or something like that) concerning the collapse of this cult, I would think he would be the star witness.
Umm … I sure do hope that I haven’t overlooked any other financial experts and slighted them by saying Jeffrey is the premier financial expert on this cult.
Jeffrey Augustine is one of the most meticulous people as far as researching detailed info on scammage involving people\groups that are tied to the co$. There’s a huge amount of interviews and podcasts where Jeffrey explains different issues and people involved in big money and fraud that are directly tied to co$. His research and attention to details are amazing! I caught a great one recently at MythVision, with Derek Lambert titled “10 Things You Need To Know About The Cult Of $cientology”. He’s also been a guest on Chris Sheldon’s ‘Sensibly Speaking Podcast’, Also Ron Miscaviges ‘Life After $cientology’. There’s too many more to list but they are all great!