From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2002 - 12:32:43 MST
From: Good Morning Silicon Valley news dispatch.
Wednesday, March 27, 2002, 8:30 a.m.
By John Paczkowski
[B]EarthLink co-founder\'s Thetan pleads guilty to fraud, conspiracy:[/B] EarthLink co-founder Reed Slatkin will plead guilty to 15 charges of fraud, money laundering and conspiracy in connection with an investment scheme in which he defrauded investors out of nearly $600 million. Slatkin collected $593 million from 800 investors, including members of the Church of Scientology, where he is a minister. Slatkin faces up to 105 years in prison, and fines of up to $3.75 million, but is expected to be sentenced to only 15 years. Investors who lost millions of dollars in Slatkin\'s unlicensed \"investment club\" were disappointed with the agreement. \"I\'m told I\'m supposed to be happy with [Slatkin\'s plea],\" investor John Poitras, who says he lost $15 million in the scheme, told the Los Angeles Times. \"But the penalties here are just disconnected to the damage he\'s done.\"
[URL]http://www.scientologytoday.org/Common/question/pg08.htm[/URL]
[URL]http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000022004mar27.story[/URL]
[URL]http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2940349.htm[/URL]
>From the same:
[B]A very special message from L. Ron Hubbard, redux:[/B] Google hasn\'t seen the last of the scandal that erupted around its decision last week to remove a listing for anti-Scientology site Operation Clambake at the behest of the Church of Scientology. Microcontent News reports that the company is rejecting ads for products critical of Scientology from its Google Adwords program, claiming the right to \"exercise editorial discretion when it comes to the advertising we accept on our site.\" That Scientologists continue to populate the site with pro-Scientology Google Adwords has served only to inflame the matter.
[URL]http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/20/8222/92911[/URL]
[URL]http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googleround3.htm[/URL]
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