I recently posted this article to CosInvestigations. After reading the comment that follows from a post to this newsgroup earlier today, I felt this should be posted to ARS as well.
From CosInvestigations:

Well, I have personally experienced, and witnessed, the monetary aspects of scino transgressions. My first introduction to scino ethics handlings was to watch the person who introduced me to scino get the short end of the deal regarding money.

Years previous, he had lent another "parishioner" the money to "go up the bridge." Of course, a Reg had arranged this transaction. Years had passed and this had finally made its way to WISE, to the person in charge of WISE locally in the FCDC area. The hearing was held at the Celebrity Center. The party in question spent years in an attempt to collect the funds. We even hired a scino PI, who located the person in question. I called her mother, who told me she was no longer involved in scino. I was bashed around a bit for failing to write a KR regarding this. Then, I finally got the party involved on the phone. She called me a pit bull and hung up on me. Turned her answering machine on and for the next several months, until such time as I left the church, never turned it off again. She was so completely caved in that she wrote the man she owed the money to a personal note on scented pink paper that she was delighted to hear from him-but she never mentioned the money. That year, he wrote the monies owed off his taxes as a bad debt. Despite writing one division of the org after another, and speaking with the chaplain, nothing was ever done to help this parishioner secure repayment of his funds. So much for scino ethics!

Now, the lawyer/WISE rep that handled the case above, and got paid for her time, eventually approached me with a scheme to obtain money so she could continue up the bridge. Some Reg, perhaps at FCDC, had cooked up a wild scheme for me to borrow the money in my name on a house she owned in another city, I believe it was located in Atlanta. The deal was for me to borrow the money, make the payments, she would pay me, and she would collect the rent on the property. I politely declined to become involved in this scheme.

Eventually, during a recovery cycle, I paid FCDC for training, which I never participated in. It was a serious mistake to have paid out additional funds.

The regging increased horribly. Thursday mornings were the worst, and calls would come in on Wednesday nights as late at 11:00 PM. Pleading a lack of liquid funds was pointless. Liz Clapp told me that they happily accepted transfers of real estate and stock transfers.

Eventually, I simply become totally disgusted with scino and all it involved, I requested a refund. I spent the summer going back and forth with Liz about this. I was not requesting a refund from my Field Auditor, even though a significant percentage of the proceeds remained unused. The rationale was simple, he did not have any money and to press him for a refund would have significantly impacted his family. There are times I question the wisdom of this decision.

Nevertheless, I continued to persist in my request for the unused proceeds on deposit at FCDC. I was threatened with declares, which I am still waiting to receive. I was told I was forfeiting my salvation. I felt I had found me again, and was unmoved by that argument. I was urged to accept books in lieu of a refund, or perhaps put this towards the purchase of a new Quantum E-Meter.

I found such ideas ludicrous. I was distancing myself from the org, they were attempting to do all they could to maintain me on their lines. At this point I was thoroughly disgusted. Oddly, I was soon to enter the fray as an open critic, though I did not know it at the time. However, I digress.

Following my transformation to becoming an anti-scientologist, one Sunday I was picketing with Arnie Lerma, Sylvia and Thierry were in my face. Sylvia was busy telling me I had betrayed our mutual friends, and wasn't I ashamed on myself. Sylvia told me I did not have money on deposit at the org. I told her I begged to differ with her and that she should check with Tom Clapp. Tom acknowledged that yes; money was on deposit at the Org. Sylvia told me she would investigate and get back to me.

Well, a couple of days later I was at Arnie's and my employee Ryan called me to tell me a fax had arrived from Sylvia. Essentially, the fax said that I was ineligible for a refund as the funds had been transferred to my Field Auditor, at my request. I went ballistic that night. I called FCDC. I called Sylvia.

I went on-line to Efnet #scientology (pre #scientology Undernet days) and ranted for a couple of hours and encouraged any OSA thugs on line to pass the logs along to Sylvia.

It was that evening I found myself rapidly escalating upwards along SP lines.

I was told that the Clapp's were no longer to have any contact with me. My only contact with scino in the future would be Sylvia Stanard. I called Sylvia, and to her credit she telephoned me that night, and I informed her that I never authorized any payment to my Field Auditor and I wanted the money. She told me she would have a check issued and I could pick it up within ten days.

She kept her word. I went to the Org and took my old friend Cathy with me, aka, the Amazon.

I am convinced the only reason I received that money back is that I simply became more trouble than I was worth. I did not care when Liz told me the money was not really on deposit at FCDC as it went uplines. I only knew the money was placed on deposit at FCDC, and I wanted it back. I wanted out of scino, I wanted away from all of them. I never looked back. But as time progresses, I do feel awfully out-exchange with my Field Auditor, for a number of reasons.

Elizabeth Ann Cox
aka, Bunnyann



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Phineas Fogg

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