Don't worry, we're not talking about the Godfather Part IV. It's actually the basis of a major, 250-million-dollar federal racketeering suit against the Church of Scientology that names Tom Cruise as the Don Vito of the modern era...
According to the New York Daily News, Tom Cruisader is named as one of the heads of the Mafia-like family known as the Cult of Scientology by Peter Letterese, a former Scientologist, who is using the RICO statues against Tom and co., naming them in his $250 mil suit in a Florida court. The suit claims, for starters,
that members of the church harassed him after he left... a member of the church phoned his lawyer at home, and when the lawyer's wife answered, said he was her husband's homosexual lover.
Wait, we thought the Church hated the gays... why would they say that? They're so goofy/kooky, those alien worshipers. Anyway, did you guys see Godfather 2?
Letterese calls the church a "crime syndicate" and wants it broken up under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization law, just as the feds have broken up Mafia families.
How much you wanna bet that, despite the general good idea of trying the Church for conspiracy and fraudulent activities, this is not going to make it to a verdict? And by that we mean, the suit is not only thrown out but all records of it, including this blog post, are charred and incinerated?
Via the Daily News.
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