||||| From: Warrior Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: United States v. Kattar Date: 19 Aug 2002 22:35:02 -0700 Organization: Newsguy News Service [http://newsguy.com] Lines: 43 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: p-071.newsdawg.com X-Newsreader: Direct Read News 2.96 Path: news2.lightlink.com!news.lightlink.com!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!newsfeed.news2me.com!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!pln-e!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!drn Xref: news2.lightlink.com alt.religion.scientology:1545523 From Dandar's Closing Argument: Of particular importance is the case of United States v. Kattar, 840 F.2d 118 (1st Cir. 1988), an extortion prosecution of Scientology private investigators, where the Scientology private investigators were targeting attorney Michael Flynn as an enemy of the church. This decision notes that Scientology's top private investigator, Eugene Ingram, suborned perjury against Flynn. This is the same Eugene Ingram found in Minton's Harassment Time line, in evidence, and the same Ingram who Moxon used to suborn perjury from Cipriano against attorney Graham Berry. Geoffrey Shervell was put in charge of the Church's investigation. Shervell, who testified as a government witness in this case, oversaw the investigation in his capacity as Director of Scientology's Investigation Section. The Church ran advertisements in several major newspapers, including the Boston Globe, offering a $100,000 reward "for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the forgery and attempted passing of [the] check." Shervell employed private investigators to look into the check scheme. Some evidence was adduced at trial that these investigators, particularly Eugene Ingram, suborned false statements from various persons in order *120 to implicate Flynn himself in the check forgery. The statements against Flynn were given substantial play in the Church's newspaper, Freedom. The Church also publicized these allegations in a number of press conferences. Shervell was removed from the check scam investigation for several months due to his "ineffectiveness" in procuring information, but was reinstated by the Church in August 1984. At this point Reservitz, the actual mastermind of the check scheme, became a cooperating witness and operative of the government. Reservitz testified that he approached Church investigators to see if they would attempt to procure false testimony from him. In effect, he was to be bait for possible illegalities by the Church. Church investigator Ingram did in fact try to get Reservitz to implicate Flynn. Reservitz, while wearing a body recorder provided by the FBI, negotiated with the Church investigators about how much he was to be paid for his incriminating statements. === Warrior - Sunshine disinfects http://warrior.offlines.org